Hello Boikutso from Botswana and others on the list.

I am writing from Maun, Botswana where we are working on a small GBIF BID project to rescue hunting records and data from the Botswana Wildlife Management Association. The main work is taking place at the University of Botswana's Okavango Research Institute, with the library as the repository for the materials, and data entered into the GBIF's databases.

I am the PI for the project, working with my colleagues Olebogeng Suwe, Anastacia Makati, Mosepele Boiditswe, Mogae Makonyela, Ben Thupe, Dr Lucas Rutina, Keta Mosepele, Gosego Moreri, Masego Dhliwayo, Wame Mpinang, and Debbie Peake. We are looking forward to learning more about biodiversity data management with all of you.

Monica Morrison

-----Original Message----- From: Bid-community [mailto:bid-community-bounces@lists.gbif.org] On Behalf Of bid-community-request@lists.gbif.org Sent: 06 October 2016 12:00 PM To: bid-community@lists.gbif.orgD Subject: Bid-community Digest, Vol 2, Issue 1

Send Bid-community mailing list submissions to bid-community@lists.gbif.org

To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/bid-community or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to bid-community-request@lists.gbif.org

You can reach the person managing the list at bid-community-owner@lists.gbif.org

When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Bid-community digest..."

Today's Topics:

1. Self introduction (RANAIVO Jaona) 2. greetings from Botswana (Boikhutso Lerato Rapalai)

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Message: 1 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 15:38:30 +0000 (UTC) From: RANAIVO Jaona ranaivo_jaona@yahoo.fr To: "bid-community@lists.gbif.org" bid-community@lists.gbif.org Subject: [Bid-community] Self introduction Message-ID: 1574620442.5124704.1475681910055@mail.yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Hi everybody,My name is Jaona RANAIVO, I have been working at the Centre national de Recherches sur l'Environnement and I live in Antananarivo as a botanist. Madagascar have been member to GBIF since 2003 and I am the current node manager. Madagascar is part of the regional BID project entitled? ?Capacity building and biodiversity data mobilization for conservation, sustainable use, and decision making in Africa and Mdagascar? led by Pr. Ganglo. I am confident at I will learn a lot from this program.Regards?? Jaona