This was a presentation made by Dr. G Dileepkumar of ICRISAT, sharing what is happening at CGIAR with respect to open access and how far has their initiative gone.

1. Open Access to Data & Knowledge:
A CGIAR Center Perspective
Workshop on
“Open Access to Agricultural Knowledge
for Inclusive Growth and Development”
29-30 October 2014, NAARM, Hyderabad
Guntuku Dileepkumar
Global Leader, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation, ICRISAT
Director, Center of Excellcence in ICT Innovations for Agriculture
Coordinator, ICRISAT South-South Initiative
Email: g.dileepkumar@icrisat.org

2. The only global R4D organization
for semi-arid agriculture

3. Vision
A prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics
Mission
To reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental
degradation in the dryland tropics

4. ICRISAT Locations
in the Semi-arid Tropics
55 countries
6.5 million sq km
2.5 billion people
Headquarters-
Patancheru,
Telangana,
ESA India
Regional
Hub-Nairobi, Kenya
WCA
Regional
Hub- Bamako, Mali

5. Knowledge Sharing and Innovation
Improves ICRISAT Capability to inform, dialogue with, and serve its stakeholders
• CGIAR Research
Programs
• ICRISAT Research
Programs
• Critical Focus
Areas
 Data Services
 Information Services
 Education Services
 Innovations
Foster Greater Convergence
between research and its
utilization in AR4D
 Enhancing Research
 Improving Operational
Efficiency
 Capacity Building
 Enhancing Impact
 Facilitating Cultural Change
 Facilitating information
exchange, linkages, PPP

6. Implementing in three tracks with five different units
KM for Cultural Exchange
KM for Enhancing Org. Effectiveness
Innovations in KS for Impact
1. Information Systems Unit
2. Data Management Systems
3. Library and Information Services
4. Learning Systems Unit
5. ICT for Development
Innovative platforms for knowledge sharing

7. Center of Excellence in ICT Innovations for Agriculture
Provides a platform to bring ICT innovations in Agriculture by integrating
science, technology and value chain approaches (Farm to Fork)
… many more

8. Why Open Access?
 Research data and knowledge outputs are very
valuable as International Public Goods (IPGs)
 Data generated in agricultural research laboratories
became private preserve and inaccessible
 Knowledge Outputs in peer-reviewed journals remains
inaccessible behind toll-based access or subscription
fees
 Contemporary digital opportunities for collecting,
storing, manipulating and transmitting data and
knowledge outputs have opened up new avenues
 One such digital opportunity is the Open Access (OA)
platform

9. Why Open Access?
 Open Access benefits the whole world of science
 Enables the free flow of research information between
north and south, east and west… every corner
 Helping research to progress much more effectively.

10. Why Open Access in Agriculture?
By June 30,2014
Facebook boasted 1.32
billion monthly active
users worldwide.
829 m users on
average log on to
Facebook daily, as of
June 2014.
• More than 1 billion
unique users visit
YouTube each month
• Over 6 billion hours
of video are watched
each month on
YouTube—that's
almost an hour for
every person on
Earth, 100 hours of
video are uploaded
to YouTube every
minute
Number of pages:
32,605,026
Number of articles:
4,486,786
Number of files:
828,078
Number of edits:
706,393,946
Number of Users:
21,085,515
Number of admins:
1,416
 Agriculture research organizations must take
advantage of contemporary ICT tools and platforms
 Donor and Funding agencies insisting for unlocking
research data and knowledge outputs

12. Data Management Platforms at ICRISAT
Several Other Platforms…

13. Institutional Data Repository
http://dataverse.icrisat.org/dvn
Above 465 data files in more than 10 Dataverse with 60 studies are available in
Dataverse

14. Challenges
• Data confidentiality and data standards
• Recognition and data ownership
• Data preservation beyond project life cycle
• Cultural change
Efforts
• Open Access Week - 24 October 2013, 27 October 2014
– > 50 participants attended and uploaded more than 100 data files in Dataverse
• Capacity development workshops ( 2013-2014)
– Data curation and breeding data management – 25 to 29 Nov 2013
– ‘Orientation to innovative agriculture data management platforms and data
management policy’ – 5 to 6 Dec 2013
– ‘Appropriate Technologies and Innovative Approaches for Agriculture Knowledge
Sharing’ – 9 to 14 Dec 2013
– ‘Open data solutions’ – 1-4 Sept 2014
– ‘aWhere platform’ for HOPE scientists - 1st Sept 2014

15. Data management Policy and
Implementation guidelines
• Approved on 5th March 2014
• Applies to all scientists and research staff of ICRISAT
• Data generated or collected through ICRISAT research -
owned by ICRISAT
• Data sharing – within 24 months from the completion date of
data collection
• Planning data management activities at the beginning of the
project
 Timelines , Data manager, Data curator, Data generators,
Project coordinators
• Recognition and Incentives

17. Comparability between Traditional training
and ICRISAT training program
Traditional Classroom Trainings‘
2013
Investments 1 million USD
Reach is 407 participants
AgED Open Course Ware - 2014
Investments USD 900
Reach is 6330 learner participants
from 180+ countries
From Jan to Aug 2014

18. July 17-18, 2014, University of Florida, Florida
Sep 4, 2014, ICRISAT, India
Oct 16, 2014, World Food Prize Symposium, IOWA
One Agriculture-One Science:
A Global Education consortium

19. Where are we now in CGIAR
ICRISAT is one of
the first CGIAR
centres ….
Open access mandate in place (2009)
Central data repository (2012)
Data management policy and
Implementation guidelines (2014)
Closely working with Consortium
data management task force (DMTF)

20. Research data infrastructure across CGIAR centers

21. CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations
engaged in research for a food secure future

22. CGIAR Goal

23. CGIAR Open Access (OA) Policy: Milestones
Policy
Funding
Flexible Guidelines
Center/CRP
Implementation
Plans
Center/CRP
Implementation
Documentation,
Monitoring &
Evaluation
Partner
engagement
CG-level metadata
harvesters/
open.cgiar.org
Done. Approved by Consortium
Board and all 15 Centers
In progress. $5M in W1
already from BMGF. FO
reviewing latest version.
In progress. V3
ready for review by
March
Final policy available at www.cgiar.org/open

24. IMPACTS
 Open Access Repository http://oar.icrisat.org - holds more
than 8,329 records with 630,427 downloads from 125
countries
 Open Data Repositories http://dataverse.icrisat.org/dvn/ –
holds more than 465 data files in 10 Dataverse with 60 studies
 AgEd Open Courseware platform (virtual learning platform)
http://www.aged.icrisat.org/moodle23/ - has more than 12
courses; 6330 Learner Participants from around 180 Countries
 KSIConnect (virtual knowledge series)
http://ksiconnect.icrisat.org/ - more than 511 videos; 10,635
unique users from around 170 countries

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