CIARD Open Agricultural Knowledge for Development

Developing institutional readiness

1. Introduce and gain support for the CIARD Manifesto and Values in your institutionN/A

2. Have your institution recognised as a CIARD partnerN/A

3. Adopt a formal institutional information/communication strategyN/A

4. Develop the capacities of your institution to achieve the CIARD ChecklistN/A

5. Develop national/local partner networks to share resources and skillsN/A

Increasing the Availability, Accessibility and Applicability of Research Outputs

6. Ensure that your research outputs are available digitallyN/A

7. Develop institutional or thematic repositories of your outputs as open archivesN/A

8. Use international metadata standards, data exchange protocols, and vocabulariesN/A

9. Develop a clearly defined licensing policy for your outputsN/A

10. Optimize the structure and the content of your web sites for search enginesN/A

11. Share your metadata by participating in international information systemsN/A

12. Use ‘social networking’ media and applications to share your outputsN/A

13. Build formal and informal networks to repackage your outputsN/A