Francois van Schalkwyk (World Wide Web Foundation) presented at the 2nd International Workshop: Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition in The Hague, 10 September 2015.

1. OPEN DATA
Value chains and intermediaries
François van Schalkwyk, World Wide Web Foundation
Creating Impact with Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition Workshop
The Hague, 10 November 2015

2. Web Foundation vision
Democratic governance imperative:
The open web enables all citizens to participate
freely and fully in decisions affecting them.
This requires -
• equal access to technology
• equal rights to political expression online
• equal access to knowledge/information/data.

3. Research on open data in Africa
• Critical questions about value and impact
of open data
• (Action) research
• Two projects in agriculture in Africa
• Open data intermediaries
• Open data for more equitable value chains

4. Intermediaries linking
open data supply and use
Data
source
I1
Advocacy
CSO
I2
Civic tech
company
I3
Community
group
User
group(s)
Infomediaries

5. Examples

8. Open data in agri value chains

9. Mapping wet mills to unlock value
Photo by Victor Biro

10. End. Thank you.
François van Schalkwyk
francois@webfoundation.org
@francois_fvs2