Presentation by Chris Addison, CTA (Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation) in the Public-interest innovation with open data session at the 3rd International Open Data Conference, 29 May 2015, Ottawa, Canada.

1. Summing up of
Data and Agriculture Track
Chris Addison & Martin Parr

2. ● 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

3. 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

4. ● 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

6. 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 points
GODAN as a learning platform

7. ● 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

8. ● 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

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