Sweet-APPS aims to engage and communicate with sweetpotato stakeholders in North Carolina to better understand stakeholder needs in regards to a data integration, analytics, and decision support platform designed for the sweetpotato industry.

Key benefits of actively engaging stakeholders in Sweet-APPS:

• Helps ensure our innovative practices meet stakeholder needs

• Builds trust between our research team and sweetpotato stakeholders

• Adheres to principles of Responsible Research and Innovation

NC State researchers also engage stakeholders through Sweetpotato Field Days. See this link for highlights of the 2020 Virtual Field Day event!

As a first step to understand stakeholder needs and preferences regarding a data and sensing platform for sweetpotatos, we are recruiting study participants to i) conduct a 30-60 min. phone or video meeting interview, followed by ii) a brief, online questionnaire that consists of 15 questions.

If you are interested in participating in this study as a sweetpotato stakeholder in NC, please complete this form. After the form is complete, we will then reach out to you via email to provide more detailed information on all steps of participating in this study, including the participant consent form and a list of questions or topics discussed during the initial phone/web meeting.