Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition

Fourth RDA Plenary, 22 September 2014, Amsterdam

Hugo Besemer, Library Wageningen UR

What it is

Initiative originally by USDA , DFID (UK)

Launched October 2013

All parties interested can sign up

Support global efforts agricultural / nutritional data

Partners for example

Governmental

Research

NGO’s

Businesses

Intergovernmental

What open data are these partners working with?

Open public data 43

Open research data 44

Open access publications 25

Open educational resources 16

Infrastructures 43

Difficult to fit 25

What GODAN is addressing

Institutional, national and international policies

Public and Private

Advocate open data and open access

Advocate release and re-usability data

Private sector: encouraging businesses

Suppliers

Aggregators

Developers

Enrichers

Enablers

GODAN activities

Until now

●Launch (October 2013 – Open Government Partnership)

●CIARD-GODAN consultation (april 2014 Rome)

Next

●Launch secretariat (November 2014)

●GODAN expo (Wageningen, spring 2015)

Thank you