Presentation at the AgNIC meeting In Beltsville, May 2011

1. CIARD Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for development Dr. Johannes Keizer Office ofKnowledge Exchange, Research and Extension Food andAgricultureOrganizationofthe UN Talk atthe AGNIC meeting, 2011, May 18

2. Contribution and Participation in Science Territory size shows proportion of scientific papers published in 2001 by authors living there. Copyright SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan)

3. RING - Charts and numbers The CIARD RING

4. The Community Founding Partners and growing…..

6. New types of research, organisations, and collaboration create new demands

8. CIARD partners will (a) coordinate their efforts, (b) promote common formats, (c) adopt open systems

10. Lack of institutional policies to enable research communication

11. Lack of specialized skills in complex digital technologies

12. Diversity of Responses

13. Customized Information/Knowledge Systems

14. In-house IKM Programmes

15. Institutional Networks

16. National Initiatives

17. R&D Community Forums/Platforms

19. Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development A new global movement to provide a platform for coherence between information-related initiatives to make public domain agricultural research information and knowledge truly accessible to all 2009 2007 2008 2005 2010 2012 2011 1st IISAST Consultation TASK FORCES CIARD Initiative launched (15 founding partners) Regional Consultations 70 countries 150 info prof. GCARD 2012 2nd IISAST Consultation e-Consultation & Beijing Consultation + Regional Workshops CIARD endorsed (GCARD and FARA) +112 partners and growing…

20. Endorsement of 1st Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD), March 2010 Recommended that: Stakeholders use the potential of multi-partner initiatives such as CIARD to facilitate availability and access to information and knowledge in innovative ways. 5th General Assembly of the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), July 2010 Recommended that CIARD should: advocate for more coherent approaches to knowledge sharing and communication of the outputs of agricultural research support development of national capacities for all types of stakeholders

22. register products and services on research outputs through the CIARD RING

23. adopt/promote international standards related to digital research outputs

24. register institutional profile on Checklist

26. XXX XXXXX www.ciard.net Vision Checklist Manifesto (Values) Pathways Fair

27. Advocacy Task Force Capacity Building Task Force Content Management Task Force

28. Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways http://ring.ciard.net/ Global registry of information sources and services in agriculture information providers register their services in various categories – e.g. 103 document repositories with 4 million accessions, and 750,00 full text documents RSS feeds – news & events: 18

29. RING – Numbers http://ring.ciard.net/totals Number of documents potentially reachable through the services registered in the RING. Types of service considered: document repositories and bibliographic databases.