Curating social science research to support Covid-19 response

The Covid-19 pandemic is a global crisis requiring rapid generation of policy-relevant evidence to inform decision-making as we move from crisis to recovery phase and beyond. We’re working with the Covid Collective to curate and share social science research evidence on Covid-19 via the IDS KS API. The Covid Collective is a global partnership of… Continue reading Curating social science research to support Covid-19 response

Published
Categorised as Blog Tagged

WordPress plugin

Pablo Accuosto, from SendasAL in Uruguay, has developed a module for the popular WordPress CMS to showcase IDS Knowledge Services content of thematically organised and hand selected academic research on poverty reduction in the developing world that is freely available to access online. The module allows the administrator to select document content, organisations, countries, regions and taxonomy terms from either Eldis or BRIDGE, and… Continue reading WordPress plugin

Research to Impact Hackathon: Agriculture & Nutrition – 22-25 January 2013 – iHub, Nairobi

        Linking information and data, and taking it to where it is needed Every year institutions, researchers and practitioners generate thousands of datasets, reports and articles about development issues. Yet, much of this knowledge remains underused , locked away in silos. The Institute for Development Studies (IDS), and Research for Development (R4D)… Continue reading Research to Impact Hackathon: Agriculture & Nutrition – 22-25 January 2013 – iHub, Nairobi

Published
Categorised as Blog

Agricultural Research Evidence Assistant (AREA) tablet application

As part of the call for proposals for grants for small technical projects, IDS KS funded developers, Gebre Wallace, Matthew McNaughton and Jonathon Smith of the Caribbean Open Institute (COI), which is housed Mona School Of Business, University Of The West Indies, Jamaica, to develop a tablet application Agricultural Research Evidence Assistant (AREA). The Agriculture… Continue reading Agricultural Research Evidence Assistant (AREA) tablet application

Drupal module

Pablo Accuosto, from SendasAL in Uruguay, has developed a module for the popular Drupal CMS to showcase IDS Knowledge Services content of thematically organised and hand selected academic research on poverty reduction in the developing world that is freely available to access online. The module allows the administrator to select document content, organisations, countries, regions and taxonomy terms from… Continue reading Drupal module

Published
Categorised as Plugins

Linked data wrapper developed for the IDS KS API extended to include IATI API

The latest Development Data Challenge was held in Helsinki, Finland, as part of the Open Development topic stream at Open Knowledge Festival. The challenge aimed to use data to answer a number of development questions. Victor de Boer and Christophe Gueret attended and used the challenge to extend their Linked Data wrapper, that they had designed for the IDS KS… Continue reading Linked data wrapper developed for the IDS KS API extended to include IATI API

HTML widget

@iLabAfrica in Kenya have developed an HTML widget to showcase IDS Knowledge Services content of thematically organised and hand selected academic research on poverty reduction in the developing world that is freely available to access online. The application allows website administrators to configure a HTML widget which can be embedded in a website with a few simple lines… Continue reading HTML widget

API projects on Github

Plone-plugin OneWorld South Asia have developed a IDS Knowledge Services plug in for the popular Plone CMS. The plug in allows the administrator to select content from either BRIDGE or Eldis, and import this as new articles in the site. (1 watcher) idsapi IDS API service plugin for dokuwiki (1 watcher) Drupal-modules These modules provide… Continue reading API projects on Github

Plone plug in

OneWorld South Asia have developed a plug in for the popular Plone CMS to showcase IDS Knowledge Services content of thematically organised and hand selected academic research on poverty reduction in the developing world that is freely available to access online. The plug in allows the administrator to select content from either Eldis or BRIDGE, and import each document as new articles in… Continue reading Plone plug in

Published
Categorised as Plugins

Joomla plug in

OneWorld South Asia have developed a plug in for the popular Joomla CMS to showcase IDS Knowledge Services content of thematically organised and hand selected academic research on poverty reduction in the developing world that is freely available to access online. The plug in allows the administrator to select content from either Eldis or BRIDGE, and import each document as new articles… Continue reading Joomla plug in