presented by Stephen Rudgard, Chief, Knowledge and Capacity for Development Side Event: Information and Knowledge for Food Security Africa Agriculture Science Week, July 2013 Opening Agricultural Knowledge The CIARD Movement: revisioning a global partnership for local benefit
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presented by Stephen Rudgard, Chief, Knowledge and Capacity for Development
Side Event: Information and Knowledge for Food SecurityAfrica Agriculture Science Week, July 2013
Opening Agricultural Knowledge
The CIARD Movement: revisioning a global partnership for local benefit
Innovation is knowledge-intensive and requires greater information sharing/exchange
Access to research outputs is essential to address problems
Effective information use enhances innovation within and among communities
Greater use of information will accelerate rural development
Using Knowledge to power Innovation
Low investment in opening knowledge – organizations invest very little in communicating their knowledge by ensuring it is adapted to rural needs or even accessible on the Internet
Opening Agricultural Knowledge
We produce results, but what happens to them? It seems that much useful data and
information is not accessible and the farmers don’t seem to benefit
The Practical Dimension
OPEN DATA
OPEN ACCESS
OPENING KNOWLEDGE
The Policy Dimension
Opening Agricultural Knowledge
WHAT IS NEEDED
An integrated twin-track approach of good policy and practice
Capacity development – a cornerstone
A collective effort - adopt proven practices and tools
A coordinated approach will reduce costs and guide, train and motivate staff in research
organizations to make the results of research more accessible and usable
“opening agricultural knowledge for development”
A Global Movement
COHERENCE IN PARTNERSHIP & ACTION
15 Founding Partners
And now 400+ other organizations
A GLOBAL MOVEMENT
All working to ensure that information become more accessible to those who need them