The document discusses the challenges in public sector information investments, highlighting the tendency to overestimate benefits and underestimate costs while lacking a clear value proposition. It emphasizes the need for private sector involvement in service design and delivery and proposes a shift towards specific, nimble entrepreneurial approaches rather than generalized solutions. The document also outlines various use cases aimed at improving agricultural statistics and services in regions like Tanzania, Bangladesh, Mali, and Nigeria.

1. Business Models & Use Cases
• Public sector information investments typically
over-estimate benefits, underestimate costs, and
do not build-in sustainability
• Lack of detailed articulation of “clients” and the
“value proposition” on offer
• Growing recognition of need to spur role of
private sector in service design and delivery
• Nimble entrepreneurial not project approach
• Build out from the specific not build general
solution then tailor

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• Imagery provision
& cataloguing
• Cloud hosting and
analytics
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• Visualization/pack
aging skills
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efficiency
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value

3. BMGF RS Learning Grant: Draft Use Case Portfolio
Use case
Micro:
Farmlevel
Meso:
Macro:
Regional,
National
Public &
Policy
Private sector
Improving national crop area
statistics and condition forecasting
X
Improving local crop condition and
production forecasting services to
traders and agro-service providers
Dry-season cropping:
Recommendation domains for
surface water irrigation with axial
flow pumps
Pump service provider and water
management time and location
specific operational intelligence
Initiating community level land
tenure information services
Crop recognition for dryland
systems – use case under further
elaboration
Target
Geography
Tanzania:
National and
selected regions
X
X
X
Bangladesh:
Southern delta
X
X
X
Sikasso, Mali
Kano, Nigeria
X