Raison d'être (CGIAR Platform)

GODAN Summit 2016 NYC- September NYC

Democratizing Big Data for small-scale farmers access

Daniel Jiménez R.

d.jimenez@cigar.org

@drdarijiro

#GODANSummit2016

What is the current situation?

Big Data in agriculture: Examples of for-profit initiatives

agronóstico

Situation across the CGIAR (non-profit)

We have made progress on some fronts:

IRRI (collect & disseminate):

CIAT (analysis):

CIMMYT (collect & management):

http://webapps.irri.org/ph/rcm/

What are we missing?

Academy:

Critical mass (profesional staff), Open Data, etc.,

Data Scientists

A Silicon valley’s vision

Computer science experts

ICT experts

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Democratization One of the

opportunities(win-win)

Thank you!!!