Jason Hahn

Jason Hahn

组织 Grameen Foundation
Organization type Civil Society Organization/NGO
国家/地区 United States of America

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论坛 Forum: "Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing" April, 2011

Question 1: What are we sharing and what needs to be shared?

Jason Hahn 提交于 周四, 04/07/2011 - 01:42

I work with the Grameen Foundation which is currently implementing a Community Knowledge Worker Project in Uganda funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  We are deploying a network of Community Knowledge Workers, equiped with phones, to provide actionable agricultural information to their communities.  We would like to be in a position to more easily share that information coming from research institutions with small holder farmers.  

There are a few obstacles to that sharing including:

  • Content is in many different forms: books, .pdfs, .xls etc
  • It is often too complex for the average small holder farmer to use
  • It may or may not be appropriate to the geographic area of the small holder farmer

We would like to see a common format for sharing agricultural information that makes it easy for small holder farmer service providers like ourselves to push that info to small holder farmers.  In our early thinking we envision this format would use tags both subject and geographic coupled with a standard simple language, and a standard format for the length of the agricultural tip.  It would be good to know how others would tackle this problem.

Best,

Jason 

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