Outcomes of the 3rd Workshop 'Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition'

Outcomes of the 3rd Workshop 'Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition'

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  Action Agenda 3rd Creating Impacts workshop 13-15 February 2017, New Babylon Meeting Centre
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  Open Data Ag Package (only for government) GODAN Action Program on impact evaluation GODAN Data Ecosystem Paper GODAN Action on capacity building and working group GODAN Success stories and documentaries
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  Overall • Frameworks for benefit sharing across data value chain to the least favoured – Balancing sector innovation vs. responsible data use •Activate to potential of open data as a vehicle for collaboration – Building partnerships across communities – Bring open data principles to other communities
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  Overall (2) • Assessment of the impact of open data on organizations in agriculture & nutrition – Organization models, business models –Round tables, supply chains as networks
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  Big Wins • Nutrition: – User assessment: find out what information/data sources professionals at Ministries are currently using in targeting their interventions –Explore new sources of data for estimating nutrition status and health, for example number of KFC’s, import/export statistics, detailed crop maps with remote sensing
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  Big Wins: weather • Stakeholders and networks (e.g. IGAD, GODAN, ****) develop a tailored approach for localized and regional applications in use of open data. • GODAN Action initiative, which focusses on weather data in 2017, These include: –need to include the financial sector – need to convince policy departments of the urgency of opening up weather data – need to share best practices
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  Big Wins: biodiversity for agriculture • Develop a reference lamp post to allow stakeholders to find relevant open biodiversity (data) – Cross linking and visualise various databases •Design mechanisms to work data on sub-national level, also to support CBD, using innovative data approaches (crowd sourcing, volunteer networks)
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  Business innovation • Document stories of data sharing, shifting revenue models, benefits and risks in the private sector • Develop thought provoking materials on supply chain change & industry collaboration through (open) data/digitization •Cross sector focus group on private sector opening up data • Further disseminate business models with open data to service producing firms
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  Societal goals • Develop a paper on the mechanisms with which open data can help to reach the SDGs • Build partnerships for transforming agriculture towards SDG2 with open data •Develop innovative show cases of private sector, project and program contribution towards SDG 2 with new data sources
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  Capacity development • Make best practices on API’s, licenses and clear guidelines for consuming/publishing open data available • Develop an end user driven approach to capacity building
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  What do we want as a result? • Rolling action agenda • Pledges from participants
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  #GODAN #Impact