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Agriculture needs an open solution stack

Farmers may not know about FOSS, but they know when they’re getting the short end of the stick. There’s lots of talk about big data and tech in agriculture… and it falls into two main camps – there’s the ‘machines replace farmers’ camp, ranging from automated tractors, to automated home gardening, to home food computers.  These projects are interesting […]

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People-led Research: A strange, sleeping giant

People-led research is a sleeping giant, and it might be waking up.  At least, people have been working hard at waking it up.  There are now collaboration platforms for everything including data collection, analysis, product design and development, image identification… the list goes on and on.  Citizen Science projects are booming, and SciStarter is making them easier to find […]

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