This document summarizes the work of InGrower Mobile, an agribusiness school that collects farm data to enable opportunities and share data to reduce barriers. It discusses how InGrower collects data on farm inputs and outputs to help farmers improve profitability. It also explains how InGrower analyzes this data to scale their social impact by combining offline training with online support, helping more farmers start home businesses and operations with fewer resources in less time. The goal is to use data science to benefit farmers and communities.

1. Our Ongoing Journey
from No Data
to Data Science
Presented at Data for Social Innovation 15/12/2016
By Paul Lam (@quantisan), InGrower Mobile

2. Anders Frigaard, Biz Dev
17 years international development
experience, Danish Agricultural
Council, MBA, and Agro-Economist
Næsgaard, Business Institute Aalborg
Paul Lam, Product Manager
Software engineer with EE and
Biomedical Eng. background, VP
Engineering Motiva, CTO
Spokepoint, Data Scientist uSwitch
Waterloo, U Toronto

7. Alberto, 19
Entrepreneur
Jorge, 22
Entrepreneur

8. We are an agribusiness school

9. Data Entry and Resource Management

10. Data science, so what?

11. Profitability

12. Source: Wikipedia
Year 2

13. Year 2

14. Year 4

15. Year 4

16. Year 6

17. Year 6

18. We collect data to enable new opportunities
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
InGrower
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
input output
output

19. Accessibility

20. Reduce Applicant
Requirement

21. Remote Support

22. Long-term Support

23. We share data to reduce barriers
Before
Current

24. Scalability

25. Combining offline training + online support
- gradudate
- Saved
US$5000
- Start
home
business
- 800
chickens
- Start
school
- Start training
- Seed capital
2 years0 month 2 months
- Start home business
- 100 chickens
- Ongoing support +
training online
- Start
school
0 month 3 months
- Graduate
- Seed
capital
Current
2017
6 months

27. We use data to scale social impact

28. So what?

30. Consider the humans
- Jer Thorp

31. “It helps me make money”

32. Paul Lam
paul@ingrower.com
@quantisan
Thank you!