Sander Janssen presentation during the Big Data Europe SC2 Policy Advisory Workshop, Brussels, 30/09/2016

1. Sander Janssen, Coordinator GODAN
Action

2. Outline
• Mission & Activities
• Set up
• Call to Action:
– Thematic topics
– Personas
– Map of standards

3. Mission
Stakeholders benefit from
improved and more
effective use of open data
for agriculture and
nutrition by engaging
with it in a practical and
knowledgeable manner

4. Activities
• Improved interoperability of data
through providing improved
standards and innovative services.
• by providing examples of improved
tools for impact assessment, as well
as by analysing barriers that hinder
the full potential of open data
initiatives and investments
• The development of tailored training
courses will increase the capacity of
stakeholders on how to use and
handle open data

5. Approach
• End user focus and
adaptive development
• Knowledge chain from
data to products
• Innovation: the act that
endows resources with a
new capacity to create
wealth.
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6. Set up

7. Open data as a solution
• Support to land data sharing: Localization and
contextualized of relevant shared data sets to
specific conditions
• Support to CAADP: Building capacities with data
and data journalism, civil society
• Global Nutrition report: Data interoperability for
searching in support of the report
• Climate and weather data: open data as a catalyst
for business development and capacity
development
• Genetic Resources: Sharing lessons learned across
communities
• Food Safety: Open data and information crucial to
evaluate risks
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8. Stakeholder needs
assessment
• Scoping methodology for
thematic topics
– Audience/actors/beneficiarie
s
– Expected impacts
– Link to global goals
– Link to networks
– Impact chains

9. 9
Impact Assessment (IA)
 IA as a process to support the preparation
of policies
 IA as a tool to inform decision makers about
potential positive and negative impacts of
planned policies
 IA as a mechanism to improve the evidence
base of decision-making
 IA as an instrument to foster policy
integration and policy coherence
→ potential to deliver more sustainable
policies
LIAISE – Linking Impact Assessment Instruments to Sustainability
Expertise

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Objectives of LIAISE
 To identify and bridge the existing
operational gaps between researchers and
policy makers,
 in order to improve the quality of IA and the
application IA tools,
 resulting in enhanced effectiveness and
efficiency in decision making and more
sustainable policies
LIAISE – Linking Impact Assessment Instruments to Sustainability
Expertise

11. LIAISE Kit: www.liaise-kit.eu

12. Back office: Enrichment of LIAISE KIT data
Current: Integration in web of data: Example of EEA
datasets
Future: Natural Language Questions: E.g.: What model
could I use to assess critical load exceedance of air
pollutant depositions?
External Sparql Endpoint
Topic
resourceresource
Enrichment Process
Enriched
Ontology
Enricher
Mapping Table
LIAISE KIT
Backoffice Web
Service
LIAISE KIT Frontoffice
Impact Area Service
LIAISE KIT (Frontoffice)
Query
LIAISE KIT (Backoffice)

13. www.godan.info
Sander.janssen@wur.nl @wurcgi