Open data & knowledge solutions - a cgiar perspective dileep

Open Access to Data & Knowledge: A CGIAR Center Perspective

Guntuku DileepkumarGlobal Leader, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation, ICRISATDirector, Center of Excellcence in ICT Innovations for AgricultureCoordinator, ICRISAT South-South Initiative Email: [email protected]

Workshop on

“Open Access to Agricultural Knowledge for Inclusive Growth and Development”

29-30 October 2014, NAARM, Hyderabad

The only global R4D organization for semi-arid agriculture

VisionA prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropicsMissionTo reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics

ICRISAT Locationsin the Semi-arid Tropics

55 countries6.5 million sq km2.5 billion people

Headquarters-Patancheru, Telangana, India

ESARegional

Hub-Nairobi, Kenya

WCARegional

Hub- Bamako, Mali

• CGIAR Research Programs

• ICRISAT Research Programs

• Critical Focus Areas

Knowledge Sharing and InnovationImproves ICRISAT Capability to inform, dialogue with, and serve its stakeholders

Data Services

Information Services

Education Services

Innovations

Foster Greater Convergence between research and its

utilization in AR4D

Enhancing Research

Improving Operational Efficiency

Capacity Building

Enhancing Impact

Facilitating Cultural Change

Facilitating information exchange, linkages, PPP

Innovative platforms for knowledge sharing

Implementing in three tracks with five different units

KM for Cultural Exchange

KM for Enhancing Org. Effectiveness

Innovations in KS for Impact

1. Information Systems Unit 2. Data Management Systems3. Library and Information Services4. Learning Systems Unit5. ICT for Development

Provides a platform to bring ICT innovations in Agriculture by integrating science, technology and value chain approaches (Farm to Fork)

Center of Excellence in ICT Innovations for Agriculture

… many more

Why Open Access?

Research data and knowledge outputs are very valuable as International Public Goods (IPGs)

Data generated in agricultural research laboratories became private preserve and inaccessible

Knowledge Outputs in peer-reviewed journals remains inaccessible behind toll-based access or subscription fees

Contemporary digital opportunities for collecting, storing, manipulating and transmitting data and knowledge outputs have opened up new avenues

One such digital opportunity is the Open Access (OA) platform

Why Open Access?

Open Access benefits the whole world of science

Enables the free flow of research information between north and south, east and west… every corner

Helping research to progress much more effectively.

Why Open Access in Agriculture?

By June 30,2014 Facebook boasted 1.32 billion monthly active users worldwide.

829 m users on average log on to Facebook daily, as of June 2014.

• More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month • Over 6 billion hours

of video are watched each month on YouTube—that's almost an hour for every person on Earth, 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute

Number of pages: 32,605,026Number of articles: 4,486,786Number of files: 828,078Number of edits: 706,393,946Number of Users: 21,085,515Number of admins: 1,416

Agriculture research organizations must take advantage of contemporary ICT tools and platforms

Donor and Funding agencies insisting for unlocking research data and knowledge outputs

Data Management Platforms at ICRISAT

aWhere - data visualization platform

VDSA Knowledge bank

IBP platform

AGROBASE

Several Other Platforms…

http://dataverse.icrisat.org/dvn Above 465 data files in more than 10 Dataverse with 60 studies are available in Dataverse

Institutional Data Repository

Challenges• Data confidentiality and data standards • Recognition and data ownership• Data preservation beyond project life cycle• Cultural change

Efforts • Open Access Week - 24 October 2013, 27 October 2014

– > 50 participants attended and uploaded more than 100 data files in Dataverse

• Capacity development workshops ( 2013-2014)– Data curation and breeding data management – 25 to 29 Nov 2013 – ‘Orientation to innovative agriculture data management platforms and data

management policy’ – 5 to 6 Dec 2013– ‘Appropriate Technologies and Innovative Approaches for Agriculture

Knowledge Sharing’ – 9 to 14 Dec 2013– ‘Open data solutions’ – 1-4 Sept 2014– ‘aWhere platform’ for HOPE scientists - 1st Sept 2014

Data management Policy and Implementation guidelines • Approved on 5th March 2014• Applies to all scientists and research staff of ICRISAT• Data generated or collected through ICRISAT research -

owned by ICRISAT • Data sharing – within 24 months from the completion date of

data collection• Planning data management activities at the beginning of the

project Timelines , Data manager, Data curator, Data generators,

Project coordinators• Recognition and Incentives

Comparability between Traditional training and ICRISAT training program

Traditional Classroom Trainings‘2013

Investments 1 million USDReach is 407 participants

AgED Open Course Ware - 2014

Investments USD 900Reach is 6330 learner participants from 180+ countriesFrom Jan to Aug 2014

One Agriculture-One Science: A Global Education consortium

July 17-18, 2014, University of Florida, FloridaSep 4, 2014, ICRISAT, IndiaOct 16, 2014, World Food Prize Symposium, IOWA

Where are we now in CGIAR

ICRISAT is one of the first CGIAR

centres ….Open access mandate in place (2009)

Central data repository (2012)

Closely working with Consortium data management task force (DMTF)

Data management policy and Implementation guidelines (2014)

Research data infrastructure across CGIAR centers

CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future

CGIAR Goal

Policy

Funding

Flexible Guidelines

Center/CRP Implementation

Plans

Center/CRP Implementation

CG-level metadata harvesters/

open.cgiar.org

Partner engagement

Documentation, Monitoring &

Evaluation

Done. Approved by Consortium Board and all 15 Centers

In progress. $5M in W1 already from BMGF. FO reviewing latest version.

In progress. V3 ready for review by March

Final policy available at www.cgiar.org/open

CGIAR Open Access (OA) Policy: Milestones

IMPACTS

Open Access Repository http://oar.icrisat.org - holds more than 8,329 records with 630,427 downloads from 125 countries

Open Data Repositories http://dataverse.icrisat.org/dvn/ – holds more than 465 data files in 10 Dataverse with 60 studies

AgEd Open Courseware platform (virtual learning platform) http://www.aged.icrisat.org/moodle23/ - has more than 12 courses; 6330 Learner Participants from around 180 Countries

KSIConnect (virtual knowledge series) http://ksiconnect.icrisat.org/ - more than 511 videos; 10,635 unique users from around 170 countries

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