What is GODAN? Network, Action & Secretariat
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An introduction to the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) initiative, its principles and what it does to advocate and develop capacity in the sector. The session will visit some definitions of open data. Through examining the work of the network’s facilitation mechanism (the Secretariat), and its research and capacity building and research unit (GODAN Action) we will outline some of the experiences and challenges GODAN has had in communicating the value of open data in the sector. For more information on the GODAN Acton e-learning course, visit the GODAN Action website here: http://www.godan.info/pages/open-data-management-agriculture-and-nutrition
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What is GODAN? Network, Action & Secretariat
- 1. What is GODAN? Network, Action & Secretariat 04 October 2017Martin Parr, GODAN Secretariat & CABI
- 2. http://www.godan.info GODAN advocates that important datasets in agriculture and nutrition should be considered global public goods and made be available to everyone
- 3. What is Open Data? Data anyone can access, use and share • Accessible (published on the web) • Available (machine-readable format) • Licensed to permit anyone to access, use and share it
- 5. FAIR Principles • Data should be Findable • Data should be Accessible • Data should be Interoperable • Data should be Re-usable Much data should be open (openly licenced). All data should be FAIR (or moving to be FAIR) - clear licence, metadata, persistent, provenance, machine readable http://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618
- 6. Supports global efforts to make data relevant to agriculture and nutrition available, accessible, and usable for unrestricted use worldwide Voluntary association of public and private entities including donors, international organizations and businesses who have agreed to a joint Statement of Purpose What is GODAN?
- 8. Building a global momentum
- 9. Donors in the GODAN steering committee • Germany a new addition to SC (to provide Secretariat post) • China (CAAS) also to agree to provide position and will join SC in 2018 • DFID supports GODAN Action & GODAN Secretariat
- 12. GODAN Action 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
- 13. ●Organizational change through transparency ●Fostering innovation to benefit everyone ●More efficient and effective decision making What open data can achieve
- 14. Why open data in agriculture and nutrition? • For climate smart agriculture • For efficient pest management • For efficient fertilizer use • For avoiding price crises • For informing consumers on food contamination • ........The list could be cont’d
- 15. GODAN Action exists to: facilitate use of standards by, research the impacts for, and build the capacity of the network of actors
- 16. 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
- 17. Starting with the problem Open data as a solution • Climate and weather data: open data as a catalyst for business development and capacity development • Support to land data sharing: Localization and contextualized of relevant shared data sets to specific conditions • Global Nutrition report: Data interoperability for searching in support of the report
- 18. Convene – Equip – Empower GODAN Secretariat’s Purpose
- 21. OPEN WATER
- 22. Challenges • “Open data is good only for the big players” • “Open data will create more data monopolies and divides” • “This research data is only meaningful in specific context [and only I understand that…]” • “Somebody has to pay!”
- 23. Impact Matters for Development https://f1000research.com/gateways/godan/godan-reports
- 24. Joint Donor Statement on Open Data Policy and Practice Donors agree to: • Participate in global funder dialogue • Promote good open data practice among those receiving funding • Efficiently and consistently engage with partners • Promote appropriate guidelines and tools • Document and track use of open data • Responsibly use data
- 27. Empowering partners to make the move. Looking at making FAOSTAT open data
- 28. www.godan.info
Editor's Notes
- GODAN stands for… Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition Firstly and most importantly GODAN is a network it has a small Secretariat managed by CABI, … and a Capacity Development and Research unit managed by Alterra at Wageningen Uni called GODAN Action
- What do we believe in?
- CLICK ONCE FOR ANIMATION What do we mean when we say ‘open data’? open data that can be taken by anyone and be transformed into a totally new, data-driven projects, products and services Some have said that open data helps create “a world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few”* Open Knowledge International Others have said Data and Open Data in particular is ‘the new oil’. It isn’t – we don’t burn it so that when we use it it’s gone forever – we build with it and hopefully us it time and time again – it’s better to think of “data as infrastructure”*. A bridge or a road. When we’ve gone to the effort of securing it we should be using it time and time again for many different journeys. *ODI Jeni Tennison. Open data is already all around you, and in many countries it is already used all the time. It’s what powers most weather apps, and transit apps like Citymapper In London Citymapper uses open data from Transport for London, OpenStreetMaps, Foursquare, Google, Apple, Cyclestreets, and other sources. open data is is already transforming the way we live, and it can do so in agriculture and food We are now as we were at the beginning of the internet in the mid 1990s Before this time companies didn’t have websites… fast forward to now and having the internet is simply the standard… you couldn’t do much to function as a business without it We want to do the same for open data for agriculture and nutrition. To create an open and shared infrastructure for us all to operate in
- Other frameworks may help the more technical of us here understand what open data is… This one focuses on the progression to making data readable by machines as well as people…
- Other useful data frameworks focus less on data being free at the point of use…
- But for now lets return to some simple definitions… We are an initiative that…
- This network of over 600 partners incorporates a variety of perspectives: from public, private, government, NGO & IGO sectors
- And has a wide geographical spread …
- It is supported by a number of governments and IGOs
- I work for the GODAN Secretariat… but before I tell you something of what the Secretariat does I’ll give you a brief introduction to GODAN Action, the body that is leading the training you are involved with today We at the Secretariat work closely with GODAN Action; and whilst we focus on Advocacy, they have a specific focus on Research, and on Capacity Development
- GODAN Action is a collaborative action of the following agencies
- GODAN Action believes that we learn by doing. Through getting our hands on. In many ways that often means starting small but focusing on addressing real problems with data
- So what can open data do for us? More abstractly open data can achieve…
- More concretely it can drive development of applications in many areas… The potential applications are wide so what we’ve found is that sometimes it’s better to tell stories that illustrate what open data can do. And I’ll illustrate that through a case study later.
- So… GODAN Action exists to… …and here the network of actors is you.
- And as part of capacity development there is a real focus on training activities such as the programme that you’re all enrolled on
- Everything GODAN Action does is focussed on solving real world problems so to give it extra focus it has some thematic areas it looks at. In 2017 it’s focussed on weather data and in subsequent years it will bring in new foci…
- So as a recap, GODAN is the network of partners and shouldn’t be confused with the small Secretariat, or GODAN Action the capacity development and research initiative that you’re involved with. The Secretariat and GODAN Action support the ‘real’ GODAN which is the network, and in practice that mean you… But to move on now to examine the work of the Secretariat that I help manage… The Secretariat is a facilitation mechanism to help partners move together to promote and innovate with open data, acting to advocate, sometimes acting as a think tank, but most often existing to promote knowledge networks. We say the Secretariat has 3 primary functions – 1) to Convene (at events or through collaborative actions such as working groups) 2) To Equip (our partners with stories of what works and policy papers for vision or guidance) 3) To Empower (by helping promote action – helping get open data principles applied in policy or legislation, new innovation mechanisms promoted, new funding streams for research and capacity building kicked off)
- CONVENE You may be aware already of some of the bigger events that we’ve been involved in. Here is the Secretariat at the GODAN Summit 2016 in New York
- Here 800 delegates from around 200 GODAN partners gathered to give commitments and discuss the matters that concerned them. This involved 70 presenters, 10 panel discussions, 4 plenary sessions, 12 breakouts, data hacks and data challenges, and an awful lot of profile raising for the issues of joint concern.
- At our events we do a lot of storytelling. We publish case studies, produce infographics and other communications materials, but what we’re using I think to great effect is video Following the principle ‘show don’t tell’ please watch this…
- Qu: You might ask for this story – and others you encounter Where is the open data in the story? Which bits are shared data? Which bits are least open? Data in this as in many stories sit on a spectrum from closed to shared to open... We can tell compelling stories.... So it’s all plain sailing then? Do we always preach to the converted? We find and I’m sure you will find too that not everyone shares our enthusiasm for open data.
- So we work with our partners to unpack some of these challenges and ask… WHY DOES OPEN DATA MATTER FOR DEVELOPMENT? HOW CAN IT ACTUALLY MAKE AN IMPACT? Especially important is that We address challenges to move the open data debate forward through moving the thinking on – recognising the value of policy focussed research, often organised through a number of thematic working groups We EQUIP partners with these insights…
- For example…
- And we try to take the conversation beyond policy and specialist practice audiences – so around large events such as the Summit we had real profile in mainstream media – BBC, Reuters, Fox News, Huffington post (over 200 media outlets) and on social media where on 15 September #GODANSummit trended in the East Coast US for 6 hours @ number 2, and #opendata trended worldwide. A reach of around 5 million in mainstream media and over 20 million on twitter. So we’ve made a lot of noise – in the next 3 years we want to move to seeing real change: More datasets released, but focussing on where datasets meet a real need Encouraging governments and private sector to use open data to drive innovation Focus on data rights so we don’t build new divides Better understanding of what works – and what works for business too. What business models work and deliver revenue, or other tangible benefits for business
- The work goes on constantly – and to conclude I’ll just mention two initiatives where we’re actively engaged in high level policy intervention Firstly - This summer we jointly hosted a meeting with the Kenyan Government which culminated in the Nairobi Declaration which seeks policy change at National and Regional levels in Africa
- And secondly in FAO… We’re looking at some of the challenges that need to be overcome to make some key datasets fully open. In particular around Statistical Data. These challenges are often not primarily technical, but may instead be issues of resourcing, of institutional culture, relationships, ownership, ethics, etc, etc… What does all this mean for you? Well, hopefully we can take small steps to help make a more amenable environment for you as open data advocates to work in. Not everybody can have as wide influence as some of the senior policy makers featured here but everybody can help by telling stories of how open data can make a difference as they witness them. It is our hope that you will be our future ambassadors Both the Secretariat and GODAN Action are relatively small in terms of numbers of people involved. But the partner network is broad and you are many. We seek to empower you to be champions for open and FAIR data and do the hard work. It won’t be us that will make the big leaps but you.