shahnaz Zuberi
| Organization type | Research Institution |
|---|---|
| Country | Pakistan |
This member participated in the following Forums
Forum Forum: "Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing" April, 2011
Question 1: What are we sharing and what needs to be shared?
Submitted by shahnaz Zuberi on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 12:46
Oh! I am bit late to share my ideas. We are sharing our published information via websites, contribution to international databases and sharing ideas via agro forum. My organization website http://www.parc.gov.pk not only contains information about its activities but it also gives access to some locally developed databases and information for farmers. Information about institutions and experts are also shared. Problem is not that someone does not want to share the information but difficulties are in organizing and managing information to give it some format for sharing.
There is serious gap of resources available for getting information about on-going agricultural research activities in my country. We are trying to address this issue. There is also need of conversion of research results in to public information for farmers and farmers are not getting full benefits from research going on in the country. One concept I would like to add in the discussion is that scientists/researchers are only sharing their achievements and outputs mostly via publishing research papers/articles but there is need that they must also share their failures in research as every research could not be ended on successful results.
Shahnaz Zuberi
Director (Sci. Information)
National Agricultural Research Centre
Islamabad, Pakistan