I personally look at a scenerio where every farmer is able to collect on farm data, upload it on a shared platform for aggregation where after is given an appropriate lincense published on the web where the smallholder farmer accesses it when needed. A scenerio when our government will have repositories for farmers data and data related services available all the time. When weather data will be broadcast in a language understood by farmers. When market data will be readily available to the farmer via messaging updates and through tradition media mostly used by farmers. A scenerio where access to external data and sharing among farmers is common place but this is dependent upon all actors from data collectors, aggregators, processors, stewards through data policy makers.

In uganda the Data bill is still in parliament for discussion where it has been held for some long time. We have no straight polices concerning open data.  Data collectors and stewards in this respect government ministries, institutions and so on have not done enough to inform the public on the availability of useful data for smallholder farmers. Youths in Technology and Development in collaboration with Bosch carried out a survey on the needs of smallholders farmers in uganda recently and we wanted to know if farmers really get data  from government. supprisingly all respondents were ignorant of the idea of data even the most educated among the farmers. To me the first challenge related to accessiing data is lack of publicity about the availabilty of agricultural data.