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Open Access to Data & Knowledge: A CGIAR Center Perspective
Guntuku DileepkumarGlobal Leader, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation, ICRISATDirector, Center of Excellcence in ICT Innovations for AgricultureCoordinator, ICRISAT South-South Initiative Email: g.dileepkumar@icrisat.org
Workshop on
“Open Access to Agricultural Knowledge for Inclusive Growth and Development”
29-30 October 2014, NAARM, Hyderabad
The only global R4D organization for semi-arid agriculture
VisionA prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropicsMissionTo reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics
ICRISAT Locationsin the Semi-arid Tropics
55 countries6.5 million sq km2.5 billion people
Headquarters-Patancheru, Telangana, India
ESARegional
Hub-Nairobi, Kenya
WCARegional
Hub- Bamako, Mali
• CGIAR Research Programs
• ICRISAT Research Programs
• Critical Focus Areas
Knowledge Sharing and InnovationImproves ICRISAT Capability to inform, dialogue with, and serve its stakeholders
Data Services
Information Services
Education Services
Innovations
Foster Greater Convergence between research and its
utilization in AR4D
Enhancing Research
Improving Operational Efficiency
Capacity Building
Enhancing Impact
Facilitating Cultural Change
Facilitating information exchange, linkages, PPP
Innovative platforms for knowledge sharing
Implementing in three tracks with five different units
KM for Cultural Exchange
KM for Enhancing Org. Effectiveness
Innovations in KS for Impact
1. Information Systems Unit 2. Data Management Systems3. Library and Information Services4. Learning Systems Unit5. ICT for Development
Provides a platform to bring ICT innovations in Agriculture by integrating science, technology and value chain approaches (Farm to Fork)
Center of Excellence in ICT Innovations for Agriculture
… many more
Why Open Access?
Research data and knowledge outputs are very valuable as International Public Goods (IPGs)
Data generated in agricultural research laboratories became private preserve and inaccessible
Knowledge Outputs in peer-reviewed journals remains inaccessible behind toll-based access or subscription fees
Contemporary digital opportunities for collecting, storing, manipulating and transmitting data and knowledge outputs have opened up new avenues
One such digital opportunity is the Open Access (OA) platform
Why Open Access?
Open Access benefits the whole world of science
Enables the free flow of research information between north and south, east and west… every corner
Helping research to progress much more effectively.
Why Open Access in Agriculture?
By June 30,2014 Facebook boasted 1.32 billion monthly active users worldwide.
829 m users on average log on to Facebook daily, as of June 2014.
• More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month • Over 6 billion hours
of video are watched each month on YouTube—that's almost an hour for every person on Earth, 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
Number of pages: 32,605,026Number of articles: 4,486,786Number of files: 828,078Number of edits: 706,393,946Number of Users: 21,085,515Number of admins: 1,416
Agriculture research organizations must take advantage of contemporary ICT tools and platforms
Donor and Funding agencies insisting for unlocking research data and knowledge outputs
Data Management Platforms at ICRISAT
aWhere - data visualization platform
VDSA Knowledge bank
IBP platform
AGROBASE
Several Other Platforms…
http://dataverse.icrisat.org/dvn Above 465 data files in more than 10 Dataverse with 60 studies are available in Dataverse
Institutional Data Repository
Challenges• Data confidentiality and data standards • Recognition and data ownership• Data preservation beyond project life cycle• Cultural change
Efforts • Open Access Week - 24 October 2013, 27 October 2014
– > 50 participants attended and uploaded more than 100 data files in Dataverse
• Capacity development workshops ( 2013-2014)– Data curation and breeding data management – 25 to 29 Nov 2013 – ‘Orientation to innovative agriculture data management platforms and data
management policy’ – 5 to 6 Dec 2013– ‘Appropriate Technologies and Innovative Approaches for Agriculture
Knowledge Sharing’ – 9 to 14 Dec 2013– ‘Open data solutions’ – 1-4 Sept 2014– ‘aWhere platform’ for HOPE scientists - 1st Sept 2014
Data management Policy and Implementation guidelines • Approved on 5th March 2014• Applies to all scientists and research staff of ICRISAT• Data generated or collected through ICRISAT research -
owned by ICRISAT • Data sharing – within 24 months from the completion date of
data collection• Planning data management activities at the beginning of the
project Timelines , Data manager, Data curator, Data generators,
Project coordinators• Recognition and Incentives
Comparability between Traditional training and ICRISAT training program
Traditional Classroom Trainings‘2013
Investments 1 million USDReach is 407 participants
AgED Open Course Ware - 2014
Investments USD 900Reach is 6330 learner participants from 180+ countriesFrom Jan to Aug 2014
One Agriculture-One Science: A Global Education consortium
July 17-18, 2014, University of Florida, FloridaSep 4, 2014, ICRISAT, IndiaOct 16, 2014, World Food Prize Symposium, IOWA
Where are we now in CGIAR
ICRISAT is one of the first CGIAR
centres ….Open access mandate in place (2009)
Central data repository (2012)
Closely working with Consortium data management task force (DMTF)
Data management policy and Implementation guidelines (2014)
Research data infrastructure across CGIAR centers
CGIAR is a global partnership that unites organizations engaged in research for a food secure future
CGIAR Goal
Policy
Funding
Flexible Guidelines
Center/CRP Implementation
Plans
Center/CRP Implementation
CG-level metadata harvesters/
open.cgiar.org
Partner engagement
Documentation, Monitoring &
Evaluation
Done. Approved by Consortium Board and all 15 Centers
In progress. $5M in W1 already from BMGF. FO reviewing latest version.
In progress. V3 ready for review by March
Final policy available at www.cgiar.org/open
CGIAR Open Access (OA) Policy: Milestones
IMPACTS
Open Access Repository http://oar.icrisat.org - holds more than 8,329 records with 630,427 downloads from 125 countries
Open Data Repositories http://dataverse.icrisat.org/dvn/ – holds more than 465 data files in 10 Dataverse with 60 studies
AgEd Open Courseware platform (virtual learning platform) http://www.aged.icrisat.org/moodle23/ - has more than 12 courses; 6330 Learner Participants from around 180 Countries
KSIConnect (virtual knowledge series) http://ksiconnect.icrisat.org/ - more than 511 videos; 10,635 unique users from around 170 countries
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