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Brussels, November 7, 2007 Reducing Hunger and Poverty in the World by 50% in 2015 helping to build a world without hunger Digital Ecosystems Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN World Food Summit 1996 "The Rome Declaration calls upon us to reduce by half the number of chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year 2015. . 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 2015. . 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. “ e "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. " Dr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division 2/27 © FAO

helping to build a world without hunger Brussels, November 7, 2007 Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Digital Ecosystems 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) e – “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 Dr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division 3/27 © FAO

Brussels, November 7, 2007 Digital Ecosystem of Knowledge for Development in Agriculture Jayanta Chatterje jayanta@iitk. ac. in http: //www. iitk. ac. in/ime/jayanta/ TV Prabhakar helping to build a world without hunger Digital Ecosystems Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN DEAL – India tvp@iitk. ac. in http: //www. cse. iitk. ac. in/us e ers/tvp/ Johannes Keizer Johannes. Keizer@fao. org http: //www. johanneskeizer. com Dr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division 4/27 © FAO

Brussels, November 7, 2007 helping to build a world without hunger Digital Ecosystems Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN 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 e futures trading • Quickly realized it won’t work • Moved to a “knowledge mandi” Dr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division 5/27 © FAO

Brussels, November 7, 2007 Digital Ecosystems CHALLENGES ON THE SOFTSIDE 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 helping to build a world without hunger “contribute web based content”. Yet there are more than a hundred active ICT Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN initiatives across the country. e 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 Dr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division 6/27 © FAO

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 helping to build a world without hunger Brussels, November 7, 2007 Digital Ecosystems Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Gap analysis e content” harder to find. Learning: Create user attractor tools, platforms and sociotechnical processes that encourage a self-managed , evolving and sustainable ecosystem of content users and creators. Dr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division 7/27 © FAO

Brussels, November 7, 2007 1. Ecology like self managed growth model of the digital knowledge base. helping to build a world without hunger Digital Ecosystems Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN Deliverables from the DEAL project: 2. An ontology & metadata system that supports the knowledge archiving & retrieval reuse in Indian Agriculture and rural livelihood domain. e 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. Dr. Johannes Keizer, Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division 8/27 © FAO

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

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

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

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

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