Towards an information sharing
framework and platform
Nikos Manouselis, Agro-Know
Knowledge & Learning Systems
Working Group
3rd Annual Conference - Cape Town, December 8-12, 2014

What does our WG do
1. Understand which food safety
information is important for
GFSP members
(e.g. “training offerings”, “research data”,
“institutions working on topic X in region Y”…)
3rd Annual Conference, Cape Town, December 8-12, 2014

What does our WG do
2. Explore key information sharing
goals
(e.g. “disseminating information about our
offerings”, “finding out who is doing what”,
“sharing information with specific
people/organizations”)
3rd Annual Conference, Cape Town, December 8-12, 2014

What does our WG do
3. Demonstrate how easily
technology can help us achieve these
goals
the GFSP Discovery Demonstrator (and an open
architecture at the back end connecting existing
systems & sources of information)
http://gfsp.agro-know.com
3rd Annual Conference, Cape Town, December 8-12, 2014

What does our WG do
3rd Annual Conference, Cape Town, December 8-12, 2014

Please do take a look yourselves
http://gfsp.agro-know.com
Your feedback is needed!
(printed questionnaires are around or
visit http://goo.gl/forms/A8GcTZza0D)
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What is next in our workplan
No extra funding is needed for the
GFSP demonstrator: just some of
your time to make your information
discoverable
(respond to an online survey, and the rest is up
to us to take care of)
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What is next in our workplan
Customized pilots with interested
organizations or projects to create
your online gateway into this
information
(we can set it up for you, if you can provide the
data and give us feedback)
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Wish list
1. Create an online inventory/map of
global food safety stakeholders
2. Create an online inventory/map of
food safety research & capacity
building projects
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We are not alone
Global Open Data in Agriculture & Nutrition
(GODAN) initiative
Partnership 4 Development (Open Data Institute,
Open Knowledge Foundation, Word Bank)
Open policies from donors (CGIAR Open Policy,
European Union’s FP7 & H2020 Open Access &
Data Management, …)
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