Towards an information sharing framework and platform

Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know

Knowledge & Learning Systems Working Group

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What does our WG do

1. Understand which food safety information is important for

GFSP members

(e.g. “training offerings”, “research data”, “institutions working on topic X in region Y”…)

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What does our WG do

2. Explore key information sharing goals

(e.g. “disseminating information about our offerings”, “finding out who is doing what”,

“sharing information with specific people/organizations”)

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What does our WG do

3. Demonstrate how easily technology can help us achieve these

goals

the GFSP Discovery Demonstrator (and an open architecture at the back end connecting existing

systems & sources of information) http://gfsp.agro-know.com

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What does our WG do

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Please do take a look yourselves

http://gfsp.agro-know.com

Your feedback is needed!

(printed questionnaires are around or

visit http://goo.gl/forms/A8GcTZza0D)

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What is next in our workplan

No extra funding is needed for the GFSP demonstrator: just some of

your time to make your information discoverable

(respond to an online survey, and the rest is up to us to take care of)

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What is next in our workplan

Customized pilots with interested organizations or projects to create

your online gateway into this information

(we can set it up for you, if you can provide the data and give us feedback)

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Wish list

1. Create an online inventory/map of global food safety stakeholders

2. Create an online inventory/map of food safety research & capacity building projects

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We are not alone

Global Open Data in Agriculture & Nutrition(GODAN) initiative

Partnership 4 Development (Open Data Institute,Open Knowledge Foundation, Word Bank)

Open policies from donors (CGIAR Open Policy,European Union’s FP7 & H2020 Open Access &Data Management, …)

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