Can a data infrastructure become relevant to small businesses?

Nikos Manouselis Agro-Know Technologies

nikosm@agroknow.gr

Can a data infrastructure become relevant to small

businesses?

We help organizations and people to address societal and

environmental challenges using solutions that are

informed and enhanced by high-quality data

We develop and put in real practice end-to-end, modular

solutions that transform data into meaningful knowledge

and services

Our values

use open data to solve meaningful societal challengescreate a data-powered ecosystem that may bootstrap agricultural & food innovationembrace all data sources, formats & types relevant to agricultural research & innovationpromote open source and open data

Our vision

To add value to the rich information available in the

wide spectrum of agricultural and biodiversity sciences

To make it universally accessible, useful and meaningful, through

innovative tools, services and applications

why agriculture?

a huge market, globally

Food & Agricultural commodities production, http://faostat.fao.org

some figures

• Food - Gross Production Value globally in 2011: $2,318,966,621 millions

• Agriculture - Gross Production Value globally in 2011: $2,405,001,443 millions

• Investment in agriculture - Gross Capital Stock globally: $5,356,830 millions

… they are big

e.g. how many B2B customers?

why (open) data?

One of the most promising routes to agriculture modernisation seems to be the provision of Open Data to all interested parties

• In an era of Big Data, one of the most promising routes to bootstrap innovation is by the use of Open Data:– e.g. provisioning, maintaining, enriching with relevant

metadata, making openly available a vast amount of• The use and wide dissemination of these data sets is

strongly advocated by a number of global and national agricultural policy makers such as:– New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition G-8– Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN– DEFRA & DFID in UK– USDA & USAID in the US

open data for businesses

“new businesses and new business models are beginning to emerge: Suppliers, aggregators, developers, enrichers and enablers”“key link in the value chain for open data is the consumer…direct relevance to the choices individuals make as part of their day-to-day lives”

is data plug and play?• No!

– requires a deep understanding of the data– requires excellent data processing & analysis skills– requires very good technical skills

• will evolve into a data-powered value chain– the companies that develop innovative agro/ food

products (agro apps consumers) need…– …companies that build apps on agro data (agro data

consumers, agro apps producers) who need…– companies that process agro data (data science powered)

Agro/food industryAgro/food industry

Agro data providers (FAO, CAAS, DEFRA,

DFID, etc)

Agro data providers (FAO, CAAS, DEFRA,

DFID, etc)

Agro/food research & academia

Agro/food research & academia

Agricultural software app/tool/service

companies

Agricultural data

scientists

Data science community

Data science community

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Tech/IT industry & start ups

Tech/IT industry & start ups

Agricultural data

aggregators

an ecosystem that could look like this

what about the infrastructure?

All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services

typical infrastructure assumptions

Data Repositories

Grid & cloud infrastructure

some magic software called

Scientific Gateway

(or whatever)

A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services

(or whatever)

All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services

typical infrastructure assumptions

Data Repositories

Grid & cloud infrastructure

some magic software called

Scientific Gateway

(or whatever)

A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services

(or whatever)

All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services

from a business perspective

Data Repositories

Grid & cloud infrastructure

An API backbone exposing data processing & management software

A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services

(or whatever)

All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services

what we still know nothing of

Data Repositories

Grid & cloud infrastructure

An API backbone exposing data processing & management software

A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services

(or whatever)

“Integrated Services”: who builds them?

A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services

(or whatever)

maybe they can reach out to the researchers

All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services

Agricultural data

scientists

Agricultural data

aggregators

Agricultural software

app/tool/service companies

is there a market beyond research & education?

there is more…

…and more…

…and much much more

why do we (Agro-Know) care?

Unorganized Content in local and remote sites

Widgets

Authoring services

Data Discovery Services

Analytics services

Agro-Know Data Platform

Ingestion Translation Publication

Harvesting BlossomCultivation

Organized and structured Content in local and remote

DBs

Educational

Bibliographic

Other

Enrichment

Aggregate data from diverse sources

Works with different type

of data

Prepare data for

meaningful services

Educational

Bibliographic

data aggregation & sharing hub

Agro/food industryAgro/food industry

Agro data providers (FAO, CAAS, DEFRA,

DFID, etc)

Agro data providers (FAO, CAAS, DEFRA,

DFID, etc)

Agro/food research & academia

Agro/food research & academia

Agricultural software app/tool/service

companies

Agricultural data

scientists

Data science community

Data science community

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Tech/IT industry & start ups

Tech/IT industry & start ups

Agricultural data

aggregators

in a data-powered value chain like this...

…we are here… we have a gap here

not only “hacks”

but sustainable data products

its a long way to go

Open Agro Data Hackathons

Open Agro Data Hackathons

AccelerationBoot campsAccelerationBoot camps

Ag & Food Business

Meet Ups

Demo & Investor Days

Demo & Investor Days

Introductory Courses

Introductory Courses

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take away point

“The future belongs to the companies

that turn data into products”

thank you!nikosm@agroknow.gr

http://www.agroknow.gr