Media Advisory: USDA Chief Scientist and National Agriculture Library Director to Brief Media on Next Week’s G-8 Open Data Conference

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Title: Media Advisory: USDA Chief Scientist and National Agriculture Library Director to Brief Media on Next Week’s G-8 Open Data Conference

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Media Advisory No. 0023.13

 

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USDA Office of Communications (202) 720-4623

 

USDA Chief Scientist and National Agriculture Library Director to Brief Media on Next Week’s G-8 Open Data Conference

 

WASHINGTON, April 24, 2013--- On THURSDAY, April 25, USDA Chief Scientist Dr. Catherine Woteki and Dr. Simon Liu, Director of the National Agricultural Library will conduct a media briefing to outline goals and objectives for next week’s G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture.

 

The conference, to be held in Washington, D.C., will bring together innovators from all over the world to discuss the importance of open agricultural data to increased food security across the globe, as well as in opening doors for public/private partnerships and economic growth. Woteki and Liu will explain that data is among the most important commodities in the world. By making our data accessible and encouraging others to do the same, we will enable collaborations of data users that will spur innovation and drive economic growth. A number of African countries will be represented at the conference and Woteki and Liu will preview some of the announcements expected to be made during the event.

 

TIME: 11:00 a.m. Eastern, Thursday, April 25^th, 2013

 

PRESS CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT ACCESS:

Audio Bridge Number: 888-455-0739

 

PASSCODE: USDA (Given Verbally)

Trouble number – 202-720-8560

 

All callers using the above passcode will be placed in listen only mode.  To join the Q&A portion of the meeting, these callers are instructed to press *1 on their touch tone phone.

 

All speakers please identify yourself as the speaker after dialing in.  Speakers will be placed in a pre-conference prior to the start of the call.  You will be fully interactive once the conference begins. For more information on the conference, please visit the conference website or email G8AGOPENDATA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

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