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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Hi to All in BID Community</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:SegoeUI;
mso-bidi-font-family:SegoeUI;color:#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">I am Pierre Raoufou Radji, living in Lomé capitale town in Togo. I work at the University
of Lomé as lecturer-researcher and at the National Herbarium located in Department of Botany, Faculty of Science as Scientific Curator.
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Involved in botany and plant ecology, I’m particularly intereted in Urban Ecology and Ornamental
Horticulture. Interested in biodiversity informatics, I attended several courses in this field and currently developing a diploma curricula in bioinformatics in the team of the Research Center in Wood and Tropical Forests (Department of Botany).</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:SegoeUI;
mso-bidi-font-family:SegoeUI;color:#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Since 2003, I was involved in informatic of biodiversity with IRD team located on MNHN
in Paris then we started to computerize Herbarium sheets on RIHA platforms (RIHA is Informatic Network of African Herbarium). RIHA is a French Platform for data capture.
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Also, I had an expertise on BRAHMS.</span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:SegoeUI;
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Head of Delegation.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">I’m involving in GBIF Africa that hardly is working to implement its ACM (African Coordinating Mechanism).</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:SegoeUI;
mso-bidi-font-family:SegoeUI;color:#191919"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">As volunteer mentor in BID community, I would be able to share experiences in data mobilization,
data and images capture ; on data cleaning. I can help using software</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">like GeoLocate</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">and Specify</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">apart from the commonly used softwares by GBIF community.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">I hope to be useful to the community in my areas of expertise and wherever necessary. So, do not hesitate to contact me.</span><span style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:SegoeUI;
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<font color="#31859b" face="Garamond">Cordialement.<br>
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<div><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond">Dr Pierre A.R. RADJI</font><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond"><br>
</font><span style="color:rgb(49,133,155); font-family:Garamond">Associate Professor</span></div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(49,133,155); font-family:Garamond">Ornamental </span><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond">Horticulture & Urban Ecology</font><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond"><br>
</font><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond">Node Manager GBIF Togo</font><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond"><br>
</font><span style="color:rgb(49,133,155); font-family:Garamond">Herbarium </span><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond">Scientific Curator</font><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond"><br>
</font><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond">Department of Botany - University of Lome</font><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond"><br>
</font><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond">06BP 6135 Tel: (228)90045114 / 22400611</font><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond"><br>
</font><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond">Lom?? - Togo</font><font color="#31859b" face="Garamond" style=""><br>
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