GODAN Webinar services: open data and agriculture resources
Fecha del documento: 26-03-2019
A few months ago we published a compilation of the main reports, studies, success stories and courses published by the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN). This body seeks the proactive sharing of freely accessible data to make information on agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable.
To achieve this goal, GODAN has different teams that work in a coordinated manner for a common goal. One of them is the Capacity Development Work Group, focused on promoting open data knowledge (ongoing initiatives, innovations and good practices), as well as the development of new capacities. All of them to guarantee a more effective accessibility, use, engagement and understanding of open data.
In 2017, this group launched Godan webinar services, in order to offer a series of webinars organized in collaboration with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA). The videos, which last between 40 minutes and one hour, help to delve into different concepts: they explain how an open data initiative on agriculture should work, or how to tell stories with data to raise organizations and citizens’ awareness. Some of the organizations that have participated in the preparation of the contents are the Open Data Institute (ODI), Wageningen UR or The Land Portal Foundation, among others.
Here are some of the resources that can be found in Godan webinar services:
| Title | Content |
|---|---|
| Publishing open data from an organisational point of view | This webinar tries to answer a series of basic questions: Why is it necessary to publish open data? What benefit can publishing open data bring to the organization? Why are licenses important? How to start with publishing open data? |
| The Agriculture Open Data Package (AgPack) | In 2016, 4 agencies (GODAN, ODI, Open Data Charter and OD4D) developed the Agricultural Open Data Package (AgPack), which included 14 categories of datasets whose opening could have an important impact for the agricultural sector. This webinar shows detailed examples and use cases of governments that have achieved success in this area. |
| Effective data communication using data visualisations | Visualizations can help reveal, in a simple way, agriculture and nutrition trends to support decision making. This webinar explains the process of creating a good infographic, demonstrate some visualization software and reflects on how infographics are being applied for open data for agriculture and nutrition. |
| The Gender and Open Data Intersection | This webinar provides an analysis of open data from a gender perspective: from the current state of the question, to the challenges to overcome. The webinar ends with a series of recommendations to pave the way forward. |
| Agricultural Development: Role of Open Data in Ending Poverty | Open data can help end extreme poverty, end hunger and reduce inequalities. This webinar seeks to boost the capacity of states to openly share data and statistics for decision making. |
| Facilitating Standards and Impact Webinar | This webinar addresses the standards and impact evaluations of open data, with a special focus on weather data. Among other topics, the speakers analyse the trends and major gaps in the availability and use of weather data standards, followed by recommendations on how to make existing data standards more usable or how to develop services that facilitate the use of standards. All this through examples and success stories. |
| Farmers rights on data and ownership issues | Data ownership and privacy are two of the challenges of smart agriculture. This webinar tries to inform farmers about their rights from a legal perspective. |
| Unlocking the Potential of Blockchain for Agriculture | This webinar provides an overview of blockchain and analyzes its impact on agriculture, through examples and success stories in specific areas. The webinar also explains what capabilities people need to work with this technology. |
| Measuring the impact of open data initiatives in agriculture & nutrition | This webinar explains the methodology that GODAN uses to measure the impact of an open data initiative. Its evaluation framework focus on earlier stage assessment, as this offers better options to design new and, monitor and steer ongoing initiatives. |
In addition to these more general webinars, Godan webinar services also offers specific resources, where different initiatives tell their experience when publishing or reusing open data on agriculture and nutrition. An example is the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), which shows some of the projects in which it is involved in one of the videos.
In short, whether you are a public body that wants to start or consolidate an open data initiatives on agriculture, or a reuser looking for examples and success stories to inspire you, Godan webinar services can provide resources and information of interest.
