1. CSI 2009-2010 ACTION PLAN
Who?: Leads/Working
What?: Topic Remarks Immediate action/Next Step
Groups
CSI Website Team: Jawoo Koo,
Website Develop an action plan for the short-
Emily Schmidt, Glenn Hyman, term and the long-term.
and Silvia Renn Content Management System to open
up site for shared responsibility in
maintenance/update?
Establish Blog
Ag Dev data – Jawoo Koo and
Andy Jarvis
Salman Siddiqui ICIMOD to share framework with the
website team
Wolfgang Goebel
ESRI GeoPortal Can ESRI harvest CSI Geonetwork
metadata?
Blog categories – Silvia Renn
and Lisa Rebelo
Wolfgang Goebel
CSI Geonetwork Share ideas on the need to revitalize
nodes the Geonetwork nodes and how
CJ Terburgh Can ESRI harvest CSI Geonetwork
metadata for its GEO Portal?
Stanley, Kai, Mishak, Todd
African Put together, harmonize existing
Agricultural proposals (need something quite
Research & modular)
Development Align visions on content
Atlas Need money to implement.
Stanley, Enrica
CSI Promotion Initial focus: Website up & running,
Then see how/whether to move on
“branding”.
Sibiry, Alice Laborte, Kai Share training modules for upload to the
Training &

2. Who?: Leads/Working
What?: Topic Remarks Immediate action/Next Step
Groups
Sonder, others website
Capacity
Building Stanley Draft a one or two-page concept around
partnership & capacity building with
AGRA. Share note.
(Who is willing to have take part?
Then hold a virtual meeting on how to
move ahead more concretely)
Sibiry Traore Sibiry to put in contact with person who
has more details on the START
fellowship program.
We need to remember CSI’s interests
Outreach
also beyond Africa. So how to focus on
other regions too (e.g. thematic CSI
meeting in Asia?)
All Workgroups; Kate Lance, All Workgroups are encouraged to
Partnership
George MuAmmar identify partners. Kate Lance to explore
on potential funding for research.
George to explore potential for
partnership.
Climate Change: Andy Jarvis,
Working/
An Notenbaert, Lieven
Thematic
Claessens, Kai Sonder,
Interest
Wolfgang Goebel, Jawoo Koo,
Groups *
George MuAmmar, Meshack
Nyabenge, (Robert H?)
Data & Tools: Silvia Renn on Less on common tools and more on
licensing issue. how to convert data. Catalog of what is
available, maybe we just put it on the
website. Many open source tools have
strengths and weaknesses, it would be
great to have a SWOT. Could set up a

3. Who?: Leads/Working
What?: Topic Remarks Immediate action/Next Step
Groups
wiki. Some group online has done this,
Jubal will send a link.
Poverty: Andy Farrow, George
MuAmmar, Stanley Wood,
Silvia Renn, Siobhan Murray,
Jawoo Koo (Robert H?)
Land cover/use: Alice Laborte,
Salman Siddiqui, An
Notenbaert, Meshack
Nyabenge, Lisa Rebelo, Kai
Sonder, Stanley
Drought: Jawoo Koo, Glen
Hyman, Andy Farrow, George
MuAmmar
Prices: – WFP, Stanley Wood,
Jawoo Koo, Emily Schmidt,
Silvia Renn
This could be an AGCommons issue
Crowd sourcing
and AGCommons could provide
leadership on this.
Next CSI Second African Agriculture April 12, 2010 in Bamako.
Meeting Geospatial Week WhereCamp2.
Restart GIS User Group in Bamako.
More participation from universities,
& regional and community groups
Stanley to follow up but
CSI
nominations (including self
Coordination
nominations welcomed)
Team
ESRI License
Agreement (&
Renewal)

4. Who?: Leads/Working
What?: Topic Remarks Immediate action/Next Step
Groups
See matrix on themes.
4-5 Project Ideas
* Need to have 1 hour session at next CSI meeting, but each group, within a month, to come up with a summary of group and work
plan, objectives (keep them realistic)
NOT YET FULLY TRANSFERRED TO TABLE
Website
- Need to actively coordinate with FAO, WFP - George could take on role, since he is already working with FAO on this. Need to
make sure it’s not crashing, not difficult. If we want to do something more with it (metadata development). What is the objective of
this? The clearinghouse approach is not working. Is it to find each other’s data or so the wider community can be aware? Need to
assess if it is working. Should check the web stats to see how many people are accessing it.
Training and capacity building
- Website has a space for the training part – data etc. pooled. Alice, Kai, others have training modules to share, to put in the
website.
- Sibiry – we can learn from START. They have been developing ACC (African Climate Change) fellowship program to send
out invitations for proposals. We proposed at ICRISAT and we have been selected to have fellows/interns. Interesting
experience to develop on program to focus on geospatial tools. Sibiry to put in contact with person who has more details on the
program.
- Sibiry mentioned of a master copy to deliver training classes to participants (ESRI author classes). Who do we need to send
this master account for. ESRI-CGIAR MOU. It’s acceptable to anyone who has signed the ESRI-CGIAR MOU. Need to sign
the agreement and pay the annual fee.
Outreach
Sibiry – more scope in getting things done and reaching out to farmers, to focus on regions. I have because I’m not expert on climate
change for example. Attach a topic to regions. We are always accused of lacking focus. I’ve been told by breeders repeatedly that they
don’t trust us. Maybe we look more at geographic scales, maybe regional or lower level.
Partnership

5. -Andy: in the WG we identified, those teams can identify partners.
- Kate: SERVIR – potential funding – some funds can be mobilized for research
- George: WFP to explore potential on partnership
Task Force for each of the topics:
- What do working groups do -- need to have 1 hour session at next CSI meeting, but each group, within a month, to come up
with a summary of group and work plan, objectives (keep them realistic)
Enrica
- Negotiate one license paid for on behalf of the centers.
Others
Stanley Wood
Two elements of risk – aligning with a specific donor with a specific business; and question of identity – are we CSI or are we
AGCommons
On the benefits side – general feeling that AGCOmmons is a really useful notion of pushing us further – what is additional thing we
are going to do in outreach; we are basically researchers and foundation is action development – maybe this group could serve as a
sort of scientific watchdogs; perhaps the member of CSI could be useful to AGCommons implementation team to help identify
opportunities and help AGCommons design program around partnering
It’s helping us articulate what we want to do and package it. We also got information here on the thematic side.