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Institution of Agricultural Research and Higher Education (IRESA)
Ministry of Agriculture
Agricultural Information Management
Agricultural Biotechnology for Knowledge sharing in NENA Region2-4 July 2012 Cairo-Egypt
Value of agricultural exportations in 2009 : 1849.5 MD
Sea products
Dates
Cereals derivates
Agrumes Horticultural products
Olive oil
Presentation of I. R. E. S. A• 6 Research Institutes • 4 Regional Research Centers
- 2 Regional branches- 11 Higher Education Institutes - 20 experimental stations- 15 incubators for creating spin off• 28 Research Laboratories • 15 Research units
- 270 Researchers (full time)• 380 Scientists • U.Y. 2010/2011: 413 Doctorates and 933 Masters
• For more details, please consult the IRESA’s Web site: www.iresa.tn
• www.facebook.com/iresa.tunisie
Plan for Agricultural Research
The priorities items established by Tunisia are:
• Food security• Preservation and sustainable management of natural
resources (water, soil, erosion,…)• Development of crops of high added value for
exportation • Management of abundance of some products• Quality of agricultural products (vegetables and
animals)
Priorities13 priority domains were identified (June 2010)
• Cereals, legumes and forages • Natural resources (water, soil, forestry) and climate change• Breeding & animal feeding• Tree crop productions• Horticultural crops• Aridology & Oasian agriculture• Agricultural mechanization • Fishing and fish farming • Animal health • Organic agriculture • Post harvest: transformation and industrialisation of agricultural products • Plant protection & Quality of agricultural products • Socio economy aspects and agricultural policies
Priorities are set up by Commissions of Programmation, Evaluation of Research in Agriculture (CPERAs) formed by researchers, scientists, representatives of development and farmers.
The new Strategy
An evaluation of the first decennial strategy (1999-2008) was undertaken by the National Committee of Evaluation of Research Activities (CNEAR).
A new decennial plan was prepared. It includes new programs such as:• Organic agriculture• Climate change• Post harvest• Plant protection• Quality of agricultural products• Socio economy aspects & agricultural policies.
ICT in Tunisia
Internet users : 4.000 000Subscribers : 600.000 ( broadband : 518.000)Official email address : 700.000 Domain names (.tn) : 16.800Web sites : 12.000Internet service providers (ISP) : 123G Providers : 3
IP Backbone Internet Service Provider IRESA
BackboneTunisie Télécom
PoP IRESABéja
PoPIRESA
Kairouan
PoPIRESASousse
Eumedconnect Router project
ATI Kasbah
PoPIRESA Kasbah
(Ancienne Salle ATI)
IRESA 30, rue Alain Savary
Tunis
PoP IRESASfax
PoP IRESAMédenine
PoPIRESAGafsa
9 PoPs : Point of presence
MainPoP IRESA
Kasbah
Tunisian Agency of Internet
PoP IRESA
Nabeul
FO 30 Mb.
VRF
F.O 1GbVRF
1 Gb
100 MNational
100 M F.OInternational
October 2011.
VRF
ESIATunisENMVet.
IRVTISEPBG Soukra
ISPA BizerteESA MograneISPTabarka
CNVZooSanitaire
CRDAs Ben Arous,
Manouba, Tunis, Ariana
BIRH
VRF
Researh institutes , higher education Institutes, regional research center, CRDA….
WANsWANs
LANs
• In IRESA : Division in charge of ICT (DTTIC: Division of information technology and communication)
5 engineers: 3 in computer network and 2 in computer programming4 analysts in computer programming1 technician in multimedia • IRESA is an Internet Service Provider (ISP ) for the
agriculture sector :Web and information system hosting,E-mail provider, Security, Management of the agricultural national network,Development and management of RAIS.
ICT infrastructure and Capacity 1/2
ICT infrastructure and Capacity 2/2
• IRESA websites : W3C, Valid RSS
• www.facebook.com/iresa.tunisie• Twitter : @IRESA_Tunisie
• CIARD member
• OpenData project
• IRESA use Horizon for virtual library• improve the library information systems such as:
- Cataloging and classification,- Circulation,- Provision,- Procurement.• The library of the agricultural scientific resources allows
reaching electronic resources with knowing: - the national and foreign collective catalogs in the agricultural field - bibliographical databases -) –
• Electronic resources 1000 (thesis, memories...) full text .• Dictionaries and thesaurus (Agrovoc)• This library is actually online www.birsa.agrinet.tn
Library information systems
• This experience started in 2004 with Water resources courses for technician degree.
• Many efforts were deployed in capacity building for teachers in digital pedagogy.
• Other specialties: (field crops, animal health)• Number of courses: 40• This distance learning system is composed of the following
items: courses, discussion forum, chat, agenda and mail. • Learners having had their diplomas: 500
• We plan to adopt scorm Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) : collection of standards
Distance learning
• All scientific and technical staff of the NARS has Internet access from their office and E-mail. ( LAN and wifi)
• All institutes have electronic library subscriptions such as American Chemical Society, Blackwell, Elsevier, IEEE, Informs, Proquest and Thomson Scientific. All of their scientific and technical staff and students have access to these libraries.
• The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) (an easy-to-use database that gives users immediate access to full-text PDF articles) is used over the local area network and is updated every year.
Existing mechanisms of accessing and exchanging information
• All institutes are connected to the Internet and intranet by the national agricultural network (AGRINET) which is managed by the IRESA and they are also connected to EUMEDCONNECT (The EUMEDCONNECT network serves the research and education communities of the Mediterranean region, and is linked to the pan-European GÉANT2 network) Each institute is connected with a leased line and at least 1 Mbps of bandwidth or fiber optic.
• Number of scientific computing servers: 2• Ratio of Number of computers with Number of Scientific
Staff: 1
Available infrastructure and financial facilities
• Since 2008, IRESA organized a steering committee in ICT and a steering and management committees for information security. These steering committees are headed by the president of IRESA.
• At the national level, a study defined and adopted a national policy/strategy in ICT ( E-gov)
( benchmarking, policy/strategy, roadmap)• IRESA participated in the evaluation and validation of this
study ( adoption of the national strategy).
Policy and strategies
• IRESA is member of :• FARA• ARIMNET ( portal, database, communication tools)
developed by IRESA • AARINENA
Mohsen [email protected]