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Great South Coast Digital Strategy
30 November 2016
Presentation overview
• Great South Coast Digital Strategy
– Aims
– Methodology
– Research outputs
– Action plan
• Digital Agriculture as a case study
– Enabling environment for digital agriculture
– Evidence of regional progress
– Opportunities for action
GSC Digital Strategy - Aims
• Determine the level of business uptake of digital solutions that enhance productivity and profit
• Explore the level of digital maturity across businesses and key regional sectors
• Identify digital economy practices which are contributing to or have the potential to contribute to regional economic growth.
Methodology
• Review 2011 GSC Regional Communications Strategy
• Assess regional ICT progress via desktop research• Survey regional businesses to gauge technology
adoption and engagement with digital technologies.
• Interview local government representatives to identify what digital initiatives had been and could be achieved
• Recommend action plan taking into account policy and funding context
Digital strategies and broader regional social and economic strategies
• Communities increasingly expect access to Council services online
• Lots of orphaned systems - limited shared services
• Opportunities for opening up LGA and other data for others to use
• A spatial approach can be better communicate and to develop new understandings and action
Exemplars in Online Service Delivery
• Opportunity for local government to be exemplars in online service delivery– Embrace innovation and agility in the way they do business
• Establishing the digital enabling environment for propulsive regional sectors – Significant mobile blackspots remain together with poor
mobile Wi-Fi data speeds– Require new skills to take advantage and adapt to rapid
technological change– New enabling infrastructure may be required to support
digital adoption across propulsive regional sectors such as agriculture, health, tourism and manufacuring
Action Plan
• Technology pilot projects• Local Government as an exemplar• Regional talent and skills• Guidance / Leadership (GSC Digital Champions)• Advocacy• Facilities / Infrastructure• NBN• Collaboration models• Local talents / skills• Research and development
Action Plan
• Technology pilot projects– Food and fibre
• GSC Smart Agriculture project
– New energy • Geospatial and knowledge management project
– Future manufacturing• Expand regional success in robotics, automation and
traceability
– Regional innovation precincts• Employment precincts
Digital Agriculture – A CeRDI View
Centre for eResearch and Digital
Innovation
CeRDI - www.cerdi.edu.au
~ 30 staff: multidisciplinary mix of researchers, technical, support and administration
Unaligned to Faculties - report to DVC Research and Innovation
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CeRDI capability: eResearch
National & FedUni research priorities
CeRDIGovernment, industry and community needs
Research expertise
Technological expertise
Real world applications
A variety of applications:agriculture, biodiversity, catchment management, citizen science, climate change, endangered species, emergency management, fire, groundwater, history, municipal information, natural resource management, regional planning, sports participation, etc.
Allows integration of cross-disciplinary data sets
spatial.federation.edu.au
CeRDI capability: spatial data portals
Inputs into decision making in Agriculture
• Water
• Soil
• Climate
• Decisions
– What to grow, when and where?
– What’s wrong with my crop?
– What’s are the likely returns and risks?
• Demonstrating safe and ethical practices
Depth to watertable
www.vvg.org.au
Federates around 80 groundwater data sets from 8 custodians. Some data are real-time, some are scheduled updates, some are linked data
Bore parameters
Information on over 400,000 bores accessed from the source databases
Predicted depth to watertable and groundwater quality
3d model of aquifers
www.ccmaknowledgebase.vic.gov.au/soilhealth
Soil eLibrary (grey documents, webpages, videos, etc.)Spatial mapping portal (maps, tests, profiles, etc.)
Federating soil data from SLGA & DEDJTR
http://ccma.tism.cecc.com.au/ccma_shkb/soilprop_viz.php
Community contributed soil test data
probetrax.sfs.org.au
Soil moisture and temperature probes (telemetered data)Includes SMS/email alert services
data.cerdi.edu.au/soil_demo.php
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) 2015 soil data interoperability experiment. Designing, implementing and testing a soil data exchange standard.
agprice.grainandgraze3.com.au
Historical commodity price metrics
www.swclimatechange.com.au
Climate change predictions (spatial), impacts and adaptation information.
Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation www.cerdi.edu.au
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Collaborate with our research, industry and community partners:
To take advantage of the eResearch tools to:
Interoperably integrate data (open data, research data, big data, sensor
data, legacy data, crowdsourced data… any data)
Answer the frequently asked data/information questions
Dynamically generate conceptual and predictive models
Make new discoveries and avoid repeating past research
Measure the impacts on decision making and facilitate practice change
CeRDI approach
Digital Agriculture Opportunities
• CRC for High Performance Soils (Stage 2 application submitted)
• Food Agility CRC (Stage 2 application submitted)• Global Innovation Linkages Smart Ag (application
submitted)• Farming Smarter Farming CRC (application being prepared)• FedUni Dynamic Landscapes - Digital Agriculture and
Agronomy (research priority area recently established)• Victorian Centre of Excellence in Digital Agriculture Data
(discussions underway with RDV)• Regional Skills Fund (application being prepared with Digital
Ag focus)• Virtual fencing (pilot with Ceres, SFS, Nicon Rural)• LoRA WAN technologies (in discussion with AARNet)
Further information
Helen Thompson
Director CeRDI
Federation University Australia
Phone: 03 5327 9418
Email: [email protected]
George Fong
Lateral Plains
Phone: 03 5335 2243
Email: [email protected]
