This document discusses capacity building efforts of the GODAN Working Group on Capacity Building. It provides details on: - The goal of being inclusive and empowering by making data, software, and educational materials openly available to increase learning opportunities for all levels. - Examples of past capacity building workshops and think tanks held in Nairobi, Kenya, which focused on challenges in African agriculture and tools for using satellite and remote data. - Plans for future webinars, challenges, and collaborations with other organizations to further collaborative efforts in capacity development.

1. GODAN Working Group
on Capacity Building
Dr. Suchith Anand
University of Nottingham & Global Open Data for Agriculture and
Nutrition

2. www.nottingham.ac.uk/open

3. Hunger
Poverty
Innovation
www.godan.info

4. Why? Data needs to be easily understood by all to
make better informed decisions at all levels
Purpose - Using this layer to compare with health expenditures to see if there's a visual relationship
with the percent of forest area and health care costs. Looking to see if health care costs rise as forest
are percent lowers.

5. Spatial Patterns in the genetic
variation of Bambara groundnut
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Roberto Santos et al. 2016

6. WG launched at GODAN summit 2016

7. • Inclusive – for all levels from students to those
without formal education
• Empowerment
• Lowering the barriers
• Spread Awareness on available resources
• Building partnerships and synergies with like
minded organisations
We welcome ideas from all on how to make this
possible
Big picture

8. Why - Social Responsibility
Making resources including data , software and educational
materials openly available offers an opportunity for
knowledge to be shared widely so as to increase learning
and economic opportunities for all.
Lots of successful Examples of educational initiatives like gvSIG Batoví
For details contact:
Sergio Acosta y Lara
sacosta@dntopografia.gub.uy
Alvaro Anguix
aanguix@gvsig.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=orwN9K07XPo

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Aim - Capacity Building at all levels - from students to those without formal
education

10. Why join GODAN WG on Capacity
development?
• Be part of a global community and benefit from sharing
ideas and experiences
• Freely available learning materials and resources
• Hands on Workshops on different themes
• Webinars
• Think Tank Meetings
• Storytelling with Data
• Student projects/competitions

11. Examples
GODAN AgriGIS Hands
on workshop and
ThinkTank @RCMRD,
Nairobi, Oct 2016

12. GODAN AgriGIS Workshop and ThinkTank @RCMRD, Nairobi,
Oct 28-29, 2016

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15. Hands on training used free and open tools so the
participants have full access without the need to buy
expensive tools - Empowerment is key
What is the point in having all the data if we don’t have
access to tools or have to pay huge amounts to get
access?

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Free online resources For example
http://spatialquerylab.com/ oss4g-academy-
curriculum/

17. ThinkTank focus
· What are the big challenges for Agriculture in
African context?
· Tools for agri using satellite / remote data
collection (known and wishlist)
· Data sets we would like to use (existing or not)
· Practical , technical, policy, implementation
obstacles to Location aspects/Geotechnologies
for Agriculture

19. ThinkTank Outcomes
AgriGIS secretariat established by CANIS
(Centre for Agricultural Networking and
Information Sharing, University of Nairobi)
Contact - Kiringai Kamau for details
Capacity Building was identified as one of the
priorities
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/grace/events/agrigis-
kenya-slides.aspx

20. Building synergies with other like
minded organisations
Research Data Alliance
CODATA
GeoForAll

22. Building synergies in Capacity Development at pre conference
meeting of Interest Group on Agricultural Data at RDA9
,Barcelona (3-4 April 2017)

24. Geo For All - Making Geospatial education
and opportunities accessible to all
Image Credit: NOAA/NASA GOES Project

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GODAN Webinar Series
To start on 15th
March 2017
Ideas/contributions welcome

26. Join the GODAN-NASA Local
Farming Challenge 2017

28. GODAN-NASA Local Farming Challenge
We invite innovative ideas on Urban farming from
students worldwide
Some examples:
•mapping for optimal linking of local farming
community directly with potential customers
•tools for visualising spatio-temporal aspects of
local farming
•ideas for helping reducing wastage (for example
real time linking with local food banks) etc.

29. Prize
1000 Euro in total for the best student team in
Agriculture challenge using open data sources
Certificates from NASA and GODAN for all participants
More details at
http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it

30. Have a look at previous projects

31. Join us at https://dgroups.org/fao/godan_cd/join

32. Thank You!Thank You!