Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) is an initiative launched in 2013 by the USDA and DFID to support global efforts in sharing open agricultural and nutritional data. GODAN has numerous partners from government, research, NGOs, businesses, and intergovernmental organizations. These partners are working to make various data openly available, including open public data, open research data, open access publications, open educational resources, and infrastructures, though some data remains difficult to classify as open. GODAN aims to address policies around open data at institutional, national, and international levels for both public and private organizations, and advocates for the open release and reusability of data.

1. Global Open Data for Agriculture and
Nutrition
Fourth RDA Plenary, 22 September 2014, Amsterdam
Hugo Besemer, Library Wageningen UR

2. What it is
 Initiative originally by USDA , DFID (UK)
 Launched October 2013
 All parties interested can sign up
 Support global efforts agricultural / nutritional data

3. Partners
for example
Governmental
Research
NGO’s
Businesses
Intergovernmental

4. What open data are these partners
working with?
Open public data 43
Open research data 44
Open access publications 25
Open educational resources 16
Infrastructures 43
Difficult to fit 25

5. What GODAN is addressing
 Institutional, national and international policies
 Public and Private
 Advocate open data and open access
 Advocate release and re-usability data

6. Private sector: encouraging businesses
 Suppliers
 Aggregators
 Developers
 Enrichers
 Enablers

7. GODAN activities
 Until now
● Launch (October 2013 – Open Government
Partnership)
● CIARD-GODAN consultation (april 2014 Rome)
 Next
● Launch secretariat (November 2014)
● GODAN expo (Wageningen, spring 2015)

8. Thank you