Post on 16-Aug-2015
● Supports global efforts to make data relevant to agriculture and nutrition available, accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide.
● Encourages collaboration and cooperation among existing agriculture and open data activities, without duplication, and seek to bring together all stakeholders to solve long-standing global problems.
Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition
www.GODAN.info
GODAN network
Brings together agricultural, nutritional and open data fields and actors in order that:
● Use of open data is stimulated and implemented
● The successes of GODAN are understood &
replicated
● GODAN can learn from the successes elsewhere
● GODAN benefits from innovative work practices
● 120+ members● Facilitate working groups around the 5 pillars● Sharing members experience● Events schedule● Communications● Publications
Building networks that can scale up open-data enabled social innovations
Surveys for open data use cases● All Ag and Nutrition GODAN Members● Smallholder farmers study working paper● Caribbean ● Latin America
Discussion paper
14 Cases of Open Data for Agriculture Impact
GODAN.INFO
Starting pointsGODAN as a learning platform
● Understanding the A&N Open Data Value Chain
●How to build capacity in weak links●Need for data scientists or developers as intermediaries for communities to make use of data.
●Put together all the actors in the data value chain for agriculture
●Understanding that universities are real consumers of Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition
Issues from the panel
● Convening working groups of members● GODAN provides a learning platform and an
opportunity for collaboration● Enforce open access policies – donor funded
research must be open● Theory of change for Open data framework
would be useful● Metrics about whether systems are better. –
Coordination and publishing of this data ● Studies, e.g. Additional study: Need for cases for
Open Data for Agriculture from Government perspective
● Events: e.g.Tanzania meeting Open data for agriculture track
Issues on GODANs role from the meeting