Johannes Keizer, from FAO of the United Nations, at RDA 5th Plenary Meeting, IG Agriculture Data Interoperability Session in San Diego (CA, US) on the 9th of March 2015

1. GODAN Secretariat

2. ● The world is dealing with the urgent challenge of global food security, coupled
with unprecedented numbers of new technologies that are providing rapidly
growing volumes and types of data which offer opportunities for innovation and
change.
● More than ever, it is critical that policy makers, as well as individuals at all levels
of the agriculture value chains, have access to the information and knowledge
to make informed decisions.
● Open data has the potential to impact lives through more effective and
transparent governance, improved government services, better targeted
development programs and improved research, science and innovation.
Why Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition?

3. ● GODAN works to support global efforts to make agricultural and nutritionally
relevant data available, accessible, and usable for application worldwide. We
focus on building policy-level public and private institutional support for open
data on agriculture and nutrition. We encourage innovation and cooperation to
use open data to solve long-standing global problems and avoid duplicated
effort.
Why Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition?

4. Brings together agricultural, nutritional and open
data fields and actors in order that:
● Use of open data is stimulated and implemented
● The successes of GODAN are understood &
replicated
● GODAN can learn from the successes elsewhere
● GODAN benefits from innovative work practices
GODAN partner network

5. GODAN Partners with support from secretariat
Activity 1:
Advocacy
• Supporting
materials
• Engaging high
level politicians
• Lobbying events
Activity 2:
Lessons & Impact
• Using ex.
Benchmark
Index
• Case study +
narratives
• Mapping
exercise
Activity 3:
Events
• Showcase
events
• Hackathon
• Annual
conference
Activity 4:
Organisation
• Hiring staff
• Advisory
structure
• Finding
international
ambassadors
and champions
1. Empowering actors with data
2. More transparent information for
decision making and accountability
3. Data-based business creation and
innovation
4. Improved service delivery

6. There are four core activities:
1. High level advocacy

7. There are four core activities:
1. High level advocacy
2. Harmonize activities with others, share
knowledge and identify evidence of impact

8. There are four core activities:
1. High level advocacy
2. Harmonize activities with others, share
knowledge and identify evidence of impact
3. Manage a framework of national and
international events and dialogues

9. 1. High level advocacy
2. Harmonize activities with others, share
knowledge and identify evidence of impact
3. Manage a framework of national and
international events and dialogues
4. Operational organization of GODAN and the
Secretariat itself
There are four core activities:

10. ● support the GODAN partner network
● enhance community ownership
● retain an umbrella supporting function
● identify working groups
● recruit a strong and visible leader and focal point
● enhance coordination amongst partners
● scale up advocacy and profiling activities
● improve lesson learning and knowledge
exchange
The Secretariat will:

11. Total lifetime: 2015 to end 2019
The Secretariat lifetime

12. ● US Government
● UK Government
● Netherlands Government
● FAO and GFAR
● CABI
● CGIAR Consortium
● CTA
● ODI
Resourcing the Secretariat

13. How can Partners provide input?
High level advocacy for GODAN and on the importance of
open data across agricultural and nutritional datasets
Harmonise activities with others, share knowledge and
lessons and identify evidence of impact of engagement of
engagement in agricultural/nutritional open data activities
Manage a framework of national and international events
and dialogues to stimulate end-user engagement with
open data and to build the GODAN community of practice
Operational organization of GODAN and the Secretariat
itself

14. ● GODAN is rapidly growing with over 100 partners
from government, non-governmental,
international and private sector organisations. It
was officially launched in 2013 at a G8 meeting
in recognition of the importance of open data to
address food security, malnutrition and build
sustainable agricultural systems to feed future
generations.
● To join is free, voluntary and open to any
organisation with a commitment to open data in
agriculture and nutrition.
Partnership

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