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The CIARD Movement: revisioning a global partnership for local benefit
1. presented by Stephen Rudgard, Chief, Knowledge and Capacity for Development
Side Event: Information and Knowledge for Food Security
Africa Agriculture Science Week, July 2013
Opening Agricultural Knowledge
The CIARD Movement:
revisioning a global
partnership for local
benefit
2. Innovation is knowledge-
intensive and requires greater
information sharing/exchange
Access to research outputs is
essential to address problems
Effective information use
enhances innovation within and
among communities
Greater use of information will
accelerate rural development
Using Knowledge to power Innovation
3. Low investment in opening knowledge – organizations invest very
little in communicating their knowledge by ensuring it is adapted
to rural needs or even accessible on the Internet
Opening Agricultural Knowledge
We produce results, but what happens to them?
It seems that much useful data and information
is not accessible and the farmers don’t seem to
benefit
5. WHAT IS NEEDED
An integrated twin-track approach of good policy
and practice
Capacity development – a cornerstone
A collective effort - adopt proven practices and
tools
A coordinated approach will reduce costs
and guide, train and motivate staff in research
organizations to make the results of research more
accessible and usable
7. 15 Founding Partners
And now 400+ other organizations
A GLOBAL MOVEMENT
All working to ensure that information become more
accessible to those who need them
9. Routemap to Information
Nodes and Gateways
Global Registry
414 information providers
813 open information services in agriculture
- 369 document repositories
- 6 million accessions
- 900,000 full text documents
CIARD Ring is a platform
for the next generation of
information services
10. Other scientists will
publish our results if
we share them
Our institution
has no policy on
communicating
its outputs
We have no systems
and tools for Internet
dissemination
There are no staff
with the skills in
digital technologies
We don’t have time to
adapt our results into the
what extensionists want
Support for overcoming the
Challenges in Research Communication
11. “…CIARD gives us a global
framework for what we have been
trying to do at individual and
institutional level; now I feel
empowered to tell my Director …”
2009: CIARD consultation in Africa at FARA
“…CIARD gives us a global framework
for what we have been trying to do at
individual and institutional level; now I
feel empowered to tell my Director …”
2009: CIARD consultation in Africa at FARA
12. Advocacy! Advocacy! Advocacy!
A CONSULTATIVE PROCESS
Endorsements for CIARD
2010: GCARD-1
2010: FARA Assembly
2012: G20 MACS
2012: GCARD-2
14. The original CIARD vision: “to make
agricultural research information
and knowledge publicly accessible
to all.”
20092008 2011
The Vision is changing
2013
The proposed new CIARD vision:
“to enable the sharing and
exchange of data, information and
knowledge for agricultural
development.”
Emphasis on
innovation for
smallholders
15. PROPOSED NEW OBJECTIVES
To advocate and promote openness for all types
of agricultural knowledge and data
To share validated policies, practices, and tools
To be an agent of change contributing to
efficiency and lower cost of knowledge sharing
To enlarge the CIARD Community
To show evidence of impact
17. Revise the Checklist
Revise the Checklist to cover the three
areas:
– Institutional capacity
– Accessibility of Information/Data
– Sharing of knowledge
Develop a set of indicators
Develop case studies and success stories
as an evidence base
Strengthen the Advocacy Toolkit
19. Strengthening the CIARD
Community and its role
Sharing experiences and outreach
• CIARD as a multi-dimensional learning initiative
• Sharing and discussing experiences and ideas
among the CIARD partners: from technologies and
policies to case studies and success stories
• Establish a virtual platform for the community/ies
to promote peer learning
Building on and supporting the regional dimension
In order to address these barriers to opening access to data and information and to their effective transformation and use. An integrated two-pronged approach of good policy and practice is needed so that organizations can develop incentives build up their skills base for greater cooperation and sharing. In addition, capacity development has to be a cornerstone of the approach that will help in applying data and information to solving real problems. A collective effort will really help many smaller institutions to make information truly accessible and contribute to its effective use as they can immediately adopt proven practices and tools without having to develop their own.BENEFITS: By supporting a more coordinated approach to opening up data and information and enabling their effective use, research organizations can reduce costs and guide, train, and motivate their staff.
PRIORITIES AREAS IDENTIFIED:1. To improve investment through introduction of sound policies and coordinated approaches; 2. To develop institutional capacity through encouraging self-sufficiency and empowerment; 3. To make data and information accessible by promoting open content and common standards.
Technical issues and technologies. A set of open services -such as the CIARD.RING- and tools are available to promote information and data sharing, and open standards are continuously being developed and applied.