June China Trip

1. Presentation at Sichuan Academy
of Science
Chengdu, 2016-06-02Johannes Keizer, GODAN Secretariat, FAO of the UN

2. • GODAN Secretariat
Partnerships Lead
• Team Leader at FAO for
open Access and open
Science
• Background: Pesticide
Chemistry
Johannes Keizer, PhDThe Presenter
Johannes.keizer@fao.org

4. http://aims.fao.org

5. ●Doubling food production
for feeding 9 billion
●Knowledge Economy
●Data Intensive Science
●Open Access
●Key words !!

6. http://www.godan.info
GODAN advocates that
important datasets in
agriculture and nutrition
should be considered global
public goods and made be
available to everyone

7. An initiative that supports global efforts to make data
relevant to agriculture and nutrition available,
accessible, and usable for unrestricted use
worldwide
Voluntary association of public and private entities
including donors, international organizations and
businesses who have agreed to a joint Statement of
Purpose
Rapidly growing initiative, currently with over 270
partners from non-governmental, international and
private sector organizations and national governments
What is GODAN?

8. What is GODAN doing
• Advocacy
• Think Tank
• Knowledge Network

9. More than 270
partners
8 Donors in the GODAN steering group

10. Why Open Data?
• A world where knowledge creates power
for the many, not the few
• A world where data frees us — to make
informed choices about how we live,
what we buy and who gets our vote
• A world where information and insights
are accessible — and apparent — to
everyone
• This is the world we choose
(Open Knowledge International https://okfn.org/)

11. Why open data in agriculture
and nutrition?
• For climate smart agriculture
• For efficient pest management
• For efficient fertilizer use
• For avoiding prices crises
• For informing consumers on food
contamination
• For increasing knowledge on nutrition
• ........The list could be cont’d

13. Bottom Line on Open Data
• Be accessible and curated
• Be available in a machine-
readable format
• Have a licence that permits to
access, use and share it

14. Challenges
• “Open data are good only for the big
players”
• “Open data will create more data
monopolies”
• “Research data are only in a specific
context meaningful”

15. GODAN addresses the Issues
• Working group on data rights
and responsibilities
• Working group on data
infrastructure
• Working group on better
technical, semantic and legal
interoperability

16. OPEN DATA IN
SCIENCE
Specific issues:

17. If networked science is to reach its potential,
scientists will have to embrace and reward the open
sharing of all forms of scientific knowledge, not just
traditional journal publication.
Networked science must be open science.’
Michael Nielsen (OKI)

19. ACCCESSIBILITY AND
OPENNESS
2Examples
1

20. a personal data anecdote
2
These are the data from my Phd thesis,
I started to look for them

21. Google Search
21
https://www.google.de/search?q=johannes+Keizer++Dissertatio
n+Toxizitaet+und+Biotransformation+-
+Unterschiede+in+der&aq=f&oq=johannes+Keizer++Dissertati
on+Toxizitaet+und+Biotransformation+-
+Unterschiede+in+der&aqs=chrome.0.57.60915j0&sourceid=c
hrome&ie=UTF-8
http://agris.fao.org/agris-
search/search/display.do?f=2012%2FOV%2FOV20120028000
28.xml%3BDE19940007889

22. Accessibility
Being
online,
does not
necessarily
mean
being open

23. Specific Issues with Research Data
• Data gets lost
• Incentives, Responsibilities, Rights
• What aggregation level be public?
• Data is not equipped with metadata
• Data is not published in a machine-
readable format
• Data comes always more from the
field

24. Data Issues
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v43/n4/full/ng0411-281.html

25. • Organisational change through
transparency
• Fostering innovation to benefit
everyone
• More efficient and effective decision
making
What open data can achieve!

26. Evidence for open data benefits
https://www.mfarm.co.ke/
https://esoko.com/about-us/our-story/
http://vam.wfp.org/
http://foodtrade.com/
https://www.votomobile.org
https://rfcx.org/
http://agrinfo.co.tz/
http://www.icow.co.ke/
http://agris.fao.org/
http://www.amis-outlook.org/

27. http://agris.fao.org

28. We want more Chinese
Partners

29. It is worthwhile to become GODAN
partner !!!!!
We have to be thousands to make enough
pressure on opening data!
(list to be revised)
● Participate to discuss and resolve open
questions
● Learn from successes (and failures of others)
● Bring your issues to the broader community
● Become a GODAN champion and influence the
community
● Use the GODAN context to find new Grants for
open data

30. Join GODAN!
● Sign up means you agree to our principles in
our Statement of Purpose
http://www.godan.info/about/statement-of-
purpose/
● Easy to complete forms online
http://www.godan.info/partners/become-a-godan-
partner/
● Talk to us about how you can get involved in our
events, publications and working groups

31. GODAN Summit
• New York, September 2016
• Participate in the GODAN Summit Challenge:
http://www.godan.info/godan-summit-2016

32. www.godan.info