Join us for a 90-minute discussion about online training opportunities across the GBIF network in 2021.
Capacity building is an essential component of the GBIF community, a "soft" skill that (even with all the pandemic-related practice) is exceedingly hard to do well. Ahead of a summer calendar that includes the GBIF Global Nodes Meeting and the start of dozens of new projects funded through the BID, BIFA and CESP programmes, this session of the GBIF community webinar will take a deeper look into current training activities across the network.
Who's doing what, and how—and more importantly, why? How do they measure impact and success? What ongoing challenges do they face? How can others engage, replicate, reuse and otherwise build on wider activities? And where do we go from here, in order to scale up the communities of practice needed to fulfil our shared mission of providing free and open access to biodiversity data to anyone, anywhere?
Agenda
| Time (UTC+2) |
Title |
Presenter Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 15:00 | Welcome | Kyle Copas GBIF Secretariat |
| 15:05 | Updates to the GBIF data mobilization training | Laura Russell GBIF Secretariat |
| 15:15 | Data-use training for early-career researchers | Andrew Rodrigues GBIF Secretariat |
| 15:25 | Development of a Biodiversity Informatics MSc programme | Tiwonge Gawa Malawi University of Science and Technology |
| 15:33 | Capacity building strategy in times of COVID | Camila Plata SiB Colombia |
| 15:41 | Georeferencing training during the COVID-19 pandemic | Anabela Plos Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales / GBIF Argentina |
| 15:49 | Capacity development in Norway | Dag Endresen, Rukaya Johaadien & Vidar Bakken UiO Natural History Museum / GBIF Norway |
| 15:57 | Outreach, Training, Development, and Engagement Opportunities with iDigBio | David Jennings iDigBio |
| 16:05 | OBIS training for marine biodiversity data | Ward Appeltans Ocean Biodiversity Information System |
| 16:13 | Coming attractions | Kyle Copas GBIF Secretariat |
| 16:18 | Panel Q&A with presenters | |
| 16:33 | Extra Time Q&A |