1. Closing Gaps in ICT and Related Technologies for Agriculture
Inaugural High Level Panel Conference on Agriculture Research in Kenya
13-14th September 2018
Kiringai Kamau
Executive Director
CANIS/UoN & P4ACAD Africa
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2. Evidence Based Decision Making
ICPA says that evidence-based decision-making “helps people make well informed decisions”
Evidence based DM emerges from policies, programs, and projects; when they employ evidence from research at the heart of policy development and implementation.
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3. Evidence-based DM in Policy Practice
The core that binds the SDGs, Africa Agenda 2063, CAADP/ Malabo is evidence based DM
How is the Evidence Collected, Stored, Analyzed and Shared for Decision making/Innovation?
Who is responsible for its curation and dissemination?
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4. Collecting the Evidence/Data
There is rapid development in data collection and dissemination technologies
Technologies used to collect data:
Geo positioning
Broad-band mobile comms
Sensor platforms/IoT
Spatial search
Pervasive computing
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5. From Data to Decision Making
Transforming raw data to information and then into useful intelligence calls for cooperative involvement of multi-disciplinary scientists
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6. Data Driven Innovation
Transformation calls for accessibility of data
It is critical to have Data Openness in whatever form
The Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) promotes data openness, SD MoAI hosts GODAN
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7. Initiatives of interest
Africa Regional Data Cube
Launched at a high-level event in Nairobi (
A new tool to harness the latest Earth Observation and Satellite Technology
Focus food security, agriculture, deforestation, and water access
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8. Data Thinking and Us…
Is our time spent planning, strategizing, then collecting data with very little time executing?
Would collecting Data/Evidence be easier with technologies?
Do we have the people, technology and resources for execution? What can we do?
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9. We Need A Game Changer… The SLAE!
African Agriculture is Currently Top Down….No data, no evidence!
We Need A Game Changer…
The SLAE!
Without Knowledge Driven Extension: with No data-Information Asymmetry rules … Chaos thrive!
Human resources to offer extension is a challenge!
Students lack experiential learning… Can we help?
No agribusinesses for students attachment!
Universities, Research and County Government Linkages overwhelmed!
National Government and Development Partners cannot reach the ground!

10. THANK YOU
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