This document outlines some of the key action points discussed at the workshop held in February 2017. More information about the workshop: http://bit.ly/2lt7Vbf More information about the impact of open data for agriculture and nutrition: http://bit.ly/2lyjJqW

1. Action Agenda 3rd Creating Impacts
workshop
13-15 February 2017, New Babylon
Meeting Centre

3. 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

4. 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

5. Overall (2)
• Assessment of the impact of open data on
organizations in agriculture & nutrition
– Organization models, business models
– Round tables, supply chains as networks

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. What do we want as a result?
• Rolling action agenda
• Pledges from participants

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