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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 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.“
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"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."
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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)
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– “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
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Jayanta Chatterje
[email protected]
http://www.iitk.ac.in/ime/jayanta/
TV Prabhakar
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DEAL – India
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Johannes Keizer
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http://www.johanneskeizer.com
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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
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futures trading
• Quickly realized it won’t work
• Moved to a “knowledge mandi”
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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
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CHALLENGES ON THE SOFTSIDE
active ICT initiatives across the country.
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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
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The content that is online and free, is often not updated
regularly, is not coordinated with other providers, so there
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Gap analysis
is lot of duplication of general information and not enough
‘specific’ locale 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.
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1. Ecology like self managed growth model of the digital
knowledge base.
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Deliverables from the DEAL project:
2. An ontology & metadata system that supports the knowledge
archiving & retrieval reuse in Indian Agriculture and rural
livelihood domain.
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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.
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ICAR
CSA
HBTI
KVK
MANAGE
IIPR
Agriculture
Universities
Institutes
National Krishi
resources
ज्ञान धारा
Mobile
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Web
FAO
ICRISAT
International
Agriculture
resources
DEAL
Radio
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Sharamik Bharti
Other
NGO’s
Rural Citizen
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Standardised
Information Collection
& Dissemination
TV
जन
ज्ञान
Performance
Deployment
Partners
Conceptual Architecture for a self managed ecosystem
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Knowledge
Organisation
Consultancy
DEAL
IITK
Knowledge
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Knowledge
Visualisation
KVK
VKC
Content
Training
VKC : Village Knowledge Centers
KVK : Krishi Vigyan Kendra
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What is Agropedia?
• Agriculture Knowledge
Repository
• Of universal Meta models
• And localized content
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• For a variety
of users
• With appropriate interfaces
• Built in collaborative mode
• In Multiple languages
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The Common Exchange Layer
Aggregated
Database View
Subject-specific
Portals
Open URL or
OAI based
services
Web Services
Information
System (n)
Value-added
Information
Services
XML Bus
Shared layer of
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Subject ontologies
Metadata ontologies (Application Profiles)
Database
Websites
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Database
Distributed
Datasets
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