Dear Participants,

We welcome you to the e-Forum Discussion on the Agriculture Open Data Package- AgPack.info. 

Government have an essential role to play making the open data for agriculture ecosystem work. More info on the potential roles for government can be found here. However governments can also make open data work for their own objectives. Here is a list of governments in action harnessing open data to impact agriculture and food security.

The question to kick off this eForum is what examples are missing? How is your government implementing Open Data for Agriculture? Are there more use cases of governments in action with open data?

• The importance of open land registration data
• Surpassing the middle man: The Indian AGMARKNET Portal 

• Beyond extension services: Hotline 8082 in Ethiopia
• Managing the California drought with data visualisations  

• AGROASEMEX, state supported micro insurance in Mexico

• Agrimatie.nl: the Dutch agricultural at a glance while securing privacy

• Colombia - Open AgData to support the peace

• Increasing transparent and effective government spending with examples from the EU and Mexico

• Sharing data – optimizing resources: CartEau-Burkina Faso
• Sharing data across borders for more effective water management in Africa.
• Aims a one-stop-shop for AID data.

Directly after this eAgriculture forum discussion I will present some use case of governments aiming to enforce their agricultural policies with Open Data.

This will start at the 10th of July with a webinar.

Please join at: http://www.e-agriculture.org/forums/discussions/e-forum-discussion-agriculture-open-data-package-agpackinfo

We are looking forward to your views and experiences.

As a preview: Did you get the right data from your government? How did you do that? Or why did you not succeed?

Dear Christopher and All,

thank you for this elaborate and well thought through summary of the roles of the different stakeholders.

Reading your overview, scanning the earlier posts (8 times the word government was mentioned) and being asked by the moderators to raise a flag for the follow-up eAgricultural on the AgPack. 

Is their a role for governments? 

• Should they be the main data providors in the ecosystem?
• To what extent are they responsible that the right accurate data is timely available ?
• Should they stimulate other (private stakeholders to play their role?
• Should they adapt the ICT education to make Open data for Ag work?
• Should they adapt the curricullum for extension officers or the extension curriculum it include the capactity IT handling needed to make Open data for Ag work?
• To what extent are they responsible that the countries have technological infrastructure is up to the task ICT? (e.g. the mobile or internet network)
• or maybe private partners should make it work.
• What do we expect? 

Based on this discussion and the next starting on the 10th of July with a webinar I am curious to learn what you expect from your government or what you recommend your government to do to start realizing impact with ICT and open data for agriculture?

http://www.e-agriculture.org/forums/discussions/e-forum-discussion-agriculture-open-data-package-agpackinfo