[OSGeo-Discuss] GODAN Action: Webinar on Capacity Development - "Publishing open data from an organisational point of view" - on April 20, 2017 at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST

[Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)]

Suchith,

An age old problem, a terrifying imbalance between haves and have-nots with children ending up paying the dearest price. Our ^moral^ imperative whether Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Jew is the same golden rule around the world, yet reality has corrupted circumstance to be the exact opposite, the banana-grabbing chimp-mentality promotes profit over parity. So apparently we do not take ourselves very seriously. 

Diminishing agricultural resources, especially given the global shift in our hydrologic system, particularly in areas already on the edge of subsistence, leads to increasing conflict. When there is less to fight over, the fight intensifies, further exacerbating the proverbial 'circle of life.'

GODAN sure has it right idea, Global Open Data is the essential key for enhancing Agriculture and Nutrition. I listened to the presentation, but there still seems some initial targets yet to be defined. 

I am not sure if these are the right questions, but we need to ask specifically for what data we want:
Have we identified the data types needed? 
Possible sources from the current satellite resources? 
(i.e., vegetation, then of course weather: current, medium and long range projections)
Web apps to leverage that data based on highly localized areas to directly serve individual farmers. 
Data storage for upload of small local data, let the farmers contribute (via cell phone). 
Maybe a GODAN Forum where farmers could ask each other questions about practices, pests or other.

-Patrick

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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] GODAN Action: Webinar on Capacity Development - "Publishing open data from an organisational point of view" - on April 20, 2017 at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST

Dear Colleagues,

Currently, nearly 800 million people struggle with debilitating hunger and malnutrition and can be found in every corner of the globe. That's one in every nine people, with the majority being women and children. The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) supports the proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with the urgent challenge of ensuring world food security. A core principle behind GODAN is that a solution to Zero Hunger lies within existing, but often unavailable, agriculture and nutrition data.

At the GODAN Summit [1] in September 2016, GODAN launched a new Working Group on Capacity Development [2]. We have started a webinar series to reach out to the wider community on the importance of open data. The first webinar took place on March 2017 where we will gave an overview of the activities of the WG and explain how you can get involved. The webinar recording is available at http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/recording-past-webinar-godan-wg-capacity-development 


Our next webinar on "Publishing open data from an organisational point of view" and will be led by GODAN Action colleagues from the Open Data Institute [3] in London. This webinar is scheduled to be held on  April 20, 2017 at 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM BST


This webinar will focus on key aspects:

- Why publish open data
- What benefit can publishing open data bring
- Why licenses are the most important aspect of publishing open data
- How to start with publishing open data

This webinar will draw on content available in existing eLearning and in particular, will focus on the following eLearning modules available in the European Data Portal.

1) What is open data - https://www.europeandataportal.eu/elearning/en/module1 
2) How useful is my data - https://www.europeandataportal.eu/elearning/en/module10 
3) Why do we need to license? - https://www.europeandataportal.eu/elearning/en/module4 

We shall also be drawing on the following module to outline the importance of staying focused in publication activities.
4) Measuring success for open data - https://www.europeandataportal.eu/elearning/en/module6 

Participants are encouraged to engage with the eLearning prior to the webinar. During the webinar itself the speaker will provide an overview specific to organisations regarding this content and then will open the call to questions.

Please join us by register through this link at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1660118903825137922 

We welcome all interested in joining the GODAN WG on Capacity Development and contributing to education and training on Open Data in food and agricultural sciences. This is open and free to all interested. Join at https://dgroups.org/fao/godan_cd 


Best wishes

Suchith

Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/ 
http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/ 

GeoForAll - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science
Open Principles in Science and Education for Bridging the Digital Divide

[1] http://www.godan.info/pages/godan-summit-2016 
[2] http://www.godan.info/working-groups/capacity-development 
[3] https://theodi.org/blog/godan-action-making-open-data-work-for-agriculture-and-nutrition