Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 1/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS helping to build a world without hunger

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 2/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 World Food Summit 1996 Reducing Hunger and Poverty in the World by 50% in 2015 "The Rome Declaration calls upon us to reduce by half the number of chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year If each of us gives his or her best I believe that we can meet and even exceed the target we have set for ourselves.""The Rome Declaration calls upon us to reduce by half the number of chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year If each of us gives his or her best I believe that we can meet and even exceed the target we have set for ourselves.“ "We have the possibility to do it. We have the knowledge. We have the resources. And with the Rome Declaration and the Plan of Action, we've shown that we have the will."

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 3/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 Information and Knowledge Management at FAO The First Article of the FAO Constitution: “The Organization shall collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture.” A specific objective of FAO’s Strategic Framework –In response to the World Food Summit (1996) –“ improve decision-making through the provision of information and assessments and fostering of knowledge management for food and agriculture.” A new focus on FAO as a “Knowledge Organization” as approved by the FAO Council

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 4/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 DEAL – India Jayanta Chatterje Johannes Keizer TV Prabhakar ers/tvp/ Digital Ecosystem of Knowledge for Development in Agriculture

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 5/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 As it started: Digital Mandi Mandi in Hindi means “a place where trading” happens We wanted an electronic mandi Created a platform for buying and selling agri goods and futures trading Quickly realized it won’t work Moved to a “knowledge mandi”

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 6/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 Our Survey research in North Indian states shows that less than 10% of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra and other extension initiatives actively “use web based content” or “contribute web based content”. Yet there are more than a hundred active ICT initiatives across the country. Learning: 1. There is a gap between the content provided and content wanted by experts in the field. 2. Need of knowledge based and self managed agro advisory service CHALLENGES ON THE SOFTSIDE

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 7/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 The content that is online and free, is often not updated regularly, is not coordinated with other providers, so there is lot of duplication of general information and not enough ‘specific’ local information, making “pertinent content” harder to find. Learning: Create user attractor tools, platforms and socio- technical processes that encourage a self-managed,evolving and sustainable ecosystem of content users and creators. Gap analysis

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 8/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 Deliverables from the DEAL project: 1.Ecology like self managed growth model of the digital knowledge base. 2.An ontology & metadata system that supports the knowledge archiving & retrieval reuse in Indian Agriculture and rural livelihood domain. 3. Web based services for digital content aggregation and delivery to agriculture and rural livelihood related portals. 4.Search tools for automated assistance to Digital Content Management in Hindi and other local languages for the backend operation of Kissan Response and Village Knowledge Centers.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 9/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 Conceptual Architecture for a self managed ecosystem Web National Krishi resources Radio Sharamik Bharti Mobile DEAL International Agriculture resources KVK ICAR Agriculture Universities Institutes ICRISAT FAO Other NGO’s Deployment Partners CSA HBTI MANAGE IIPR Standardised Information Collection & Dissemination Rural Citizen TV Performance जन ज्ञान ज्ञान धारा

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 10/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, KisanBlog ( Audio Blog) Click here for English Click here for Hindi News posting DEAL RSS Reader & Feader Weathe r Report Video Clips News Archive for Agricultur e Articles Documen ts & PPTs

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 11/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, Fruit s Mang o Descriptio n of Mango Taxono my of Mango Hindi

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 12/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, Fruit s Mang o Descriptio n of Mango Taxono my of Mango English

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 13/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 KVK Unnao Local Crops Profiles of KVK Scienti sts Add Local Knowledg e of Crops Local knowledge of crops Image Gallery Knowledge Creation tool

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 14/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, Various Video clips to show to the farmers Video Clip Playing

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 15/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, Homepage of KISANBLOG Steps of Posting is as following

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 16/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, All Comments of a particular ques. Administrator sees all comments Administrator can see all questions Hindi typing tool

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 17/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 DEAL IITK KVK VKC VKC : Village Knowledge Centers KVK : Krishi Vigyan Kendra Consultancy Training Content Knowledge Organisation Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge Visualisation

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 21/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, Descripti on of Fruits Visual info. of Fruits

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 22/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, Selected item info. Will be shown

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 23/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 What is Agropedia? Agriculture Knowledge Repository Of universal Meta models And localized content For a variety of users With appropriate interfaces Built in collaborative mode In Multiple languages

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 25/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 The Common Exchange Layer Shared layer of interoperability Value-added Information Services Value-added Information Services Aggregated Database View Subject- specific Portals Subject- specific Portals Open URL or OAI based services Information System (n) Web Services Distributed Datasets Distributed Datasets Database... Database Websites Metadata ontologies (Application Profiles)Subject ontologies XML Bus

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN helping to build a world without hunger 27/27 © FAODr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division e Digital Ecosystems Brussels, November 7, 2007 Thank you