Presented by Kyle M. Dittmer, Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT, at the "Best practices for digital tool inclusiveness and farmer co-creation of practices with local stakeholders" workshop on 30 November 2022. The event was hosted by the Transformative Partnership Platform and the Alliance of Bioversity & CIAT. In this informal expert workshop, the TRANSITIONS Inclusive Digital Tools (ATDT) project reviewed and received feedback from stakeholders and experts on proposed guidance for smallholder farmer’s inclusion and co-creation of farm practices for agroecology and climate change action. Invited participants included digital resource specialists, farmer-support organizations, and agroecology and climate change experts. In 2023, we will apply the principles with our action partners in Brazil and Vietnam to guide digital innovations. In the workshop we sought input to the relevance, coherence and usability of the proposed principles to guide future work. More on the ATDT Project: https://bit.ly/InclusiveDTs

1. Principles for co-creation of best
practices with farmers
30 November 2022
Kyle M. Dittmer
k.dittmer@cigar.org

2. B
Objectives
1. Understand the state of existing principles to guide our own
work on inclusive digital tool development.
2. Guide the development of digital tools to benefit smallholder
farmers to better enable their social inclusion and co-design of
farm practices.

3. B
Methods
Social inclusion principles
Principle 1: Engage with diverse farmers
Principle 2: Enhance access and affordability
Principle 3: Use data responsibly
Co-creation principles
Principle 4: Co-create farming practices with the user
Principle 5: Appropriateuse of technology
Principle 6: Responsibledevelopment

4. B
Lessons learned
• Gap in co-creation
principles, much more on
social inclusion principles.
• Existing principles lack
guidance on climate-
informed agroecological
tool development.
Principles Guidance Standards
DIAL1 GSMA2 POLLICY3 DPGA4 WBA5 Tufts6
Social InclusionPrinciples
Principle 1 X X X X
1.1 X X X X
1.2 X X X
1.3 X X X
Principle 2 X X X X X
2.1 X
2.2 X X X X
2.3 X X X X
Principle 3 X X X X X
3.1 X X X X X
3.2 X X
3.3 X
3.4 X X X
Co-creationPrinciples
Principle 4 X X X X
4.1 X X X X
4.2
4.3 X X X X
4.4
Principle 5 X X
5.1
5.2
Principle 6 X X X
6.1 X X X
6.2 X X
6.3 X X X
1 Digital ImpactAlliance(DIAL) -Principles for
Digital Development
2 Global System for Mobile Communications
Association (GSMA)–Principles for Driving the
Digital Inclusion of Persons withDisabilities
3 POLLICY –Inclusion, Not Just an Add-On
4 Digital PublicGoods Alliance(DPGA) –Digital
Public Goods Standard
5 World Benchmarking Alliance(WBA) –Digital
Inclusion Benchmark
6 Tufts University –Beyond Access: HowDigital
Technologies PowerInclusiveInnovation in
Smallholder Farming

5. B
Social inclusion principles
Principle 1: Engage with diverse farmers
Principle 1.1: Understand the full range of farmer diversity and who is left out
Principle 1.2: Ensure usability of tools by diverse farmers
Principle 1.3: Seek input from diverse farmers
Principles Guidance Standards
DIAL GSMA POLLICY DPGA WBA Tufts
Social InclusionPrinciples
Principle 1 X X X X
1.1 X X X X
1.2 X X X
1.3 X X X

6. B
Social inclusion principles
Principle 2: Enhance access and affordability
Principle 2.1: Invest in farmers’ digital literacy and digital skills
Principle 2.2: Provide open access to tools, data, and innovation
Principle 2.3: Offer free or affordable access to tools and transparency about trade-offs in value
among cost options
Principles Guidance Standards
DIAL GSMA POLLICY DPGA WBA Tufts
Social InclusionPrinciples
Principle 2 X X X X X
2.1 X
2.2 X X X X
2.3 X X X X

7. B
Social inclusion principles
Principle 3: Use data responsibly
Principle 3.1: Use data privacy, security and safety measures that meet diverse farmers’ needs
Principle 3.2: Share data analysis and learning with diverse farmers
Principle 3.3: Capture disaggregateddata for underrepresented farmers
Principle 3.4: Identify points of user exclusion
Principles Guidance Standards
DIAL GSMA POLLICY DPGA WBA Tufts
Social InclusionPrinciples
Principle 3 X X X X X
3.1 X X X X X
3.2 X X
3.3 X
3.4 X X X

8. B
Co-creation principles
Principle 4: Co-create farming practices with the user
Principle 4.1: Develop or choose context-relevant tools
Principle 4.2: Combine top-down (advisor-to-farmer) with bottom-up (farmer-to-advisor) and peer-
to-peer (farmer-to-farmer) modes of communication
Principle 4.3: Support collaborative solutions with farmers
Principle 4.4: Use resources efficiently, including farmers’ time
Principles Guidance Standards
DIAL GSMA POLLICY DPGA WBA Tufts
Co-creationPrinciples
Principle 4 X X X X
4.1 X X X X
4.2
4.3 X X X X
4.4

9. B
Co-creation principles
Principle 5: Appropriate use of technology
Principle 5.1 Make human intermediaries available to support farmers
Principle 5.2: Be careful of overdependence on technology
Principles Guidance Standards
DIAL GSMA POLLICY DPGA WBA Tufts
Co-creationPrinciples
Principle 5 X X
5.1
5.2

10. B
Co-creation principles
Principle 6: Responsible development
Principle 6.1: Build on existing co-design solutions
Principle 6.2: Establish open communication channels for farmer input and provide frequent
status updates
Principle 6.3: Manage secondary negative impacts
Principles Guidance Standards
DIAL GSMA POLLICY DPGA WBA Tufts
Co-creationPrinciples
Principle 6 X X X
6.1 X X X
6.2 X X
6.3 X X X

11. B
• Would these principles be useful in your work?
• What would you change?
Feedback

12. B
Breakout Groups
Group First principle Secondprinciple
Group 1
Principle 1: Engage with diverse
farmers
Principle 4: Co-create farming
practices with the user
Group 2
Principle 2: Enhance access and
affordability
Principle 5: Appropriate use of
technology
Group 3 Principle 3: Use data responsibly
Principle 6: Responsible
development