CoP SED @ CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture Convention 2019

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Key sessions of interest for CoP SED

There are a lot of awesome sessions, see the schedule. We highlight the sessions of particular interest:

Convention will be live-streamed on the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture website? If you can't join us in Hyderabad, India, tune in online via the website for plenary sessions. To get remote access to the CoP sessions, please register by filling in the form in this link.

See below for more information on sessions linked to:

FAIR working groups
Gender meets Big Data
Blockchain Coalition

Agenda

2:00 - 2:05 Welcome and overview - Gideon Kruseman

2:05 – 2:20 100Q – Carlo Azzarri

2:20 – 2:25 brief clarification Q&A

2:25 – 2:40 SociO! – Soonho Kim

2:40 – 2:45 brief clarification Q&A

2:45 – 3:00 OIMS – Gideon Kruseman

3:00 – 3:05 brief clarification Q&A

3:05 – 3:30 general discussion on next steps for making socio-economic data interoperable

The Fair working groups

CoP technical session: Interoperability of socio-economic data

October 17, 2:00PM

Since the start of the community of practice on socio-economic data , one of the first things that emerged from the discussions was the recognition that any form of standardization in the socio-economic domain was conspicuously absent. In an effort to redress the challenges facing socio-economic data reuse and data interoperability, three working groups emerged. The working group 100Q focused on identifying key indicators and related questions that are commonly used and could be used as a standard approach to ensure data sets are comparable over time and space. The working group SociO! focused on the development of a socio-economic ontology with accepted standardized terms to be used in controlled vocabularies linked to socio-economic data sets. The working group OIMS focused on the development of a flexible and extensible, ontology-agnostic, human-intelligible and machine-readable metadata schema to accompany socio-economic data sets.

Recently the work of 100Q was completed with the report “Towards a core approach for cross-sectional farm household survey data collection: a tiered setup for quantifying key farm and livelihood indicators”. (download report)

Information on the socio-economic ontology SociO! is vailable through the CoP SED website.

More information on OIMS can be found through the CoP SED website

Carlo Azzarri (FPRI)

CoP sed focal point at IFPRI, co-organizer of the 2018 Rome meeting on data standardization and harmonization

Soonho Kim (IFPRI)

SociO! WG leader

Gideon Kruseman (CIMMYT)

OIMS WG leader

Gender meets Big data

Cross-platform design session: Big data enabling womens economic empowerment

October 16, 2:50 PM

Gender and big data experts will join for a deeper discussion about how to 'novel' big data sources (e.g. transaction data, social media, data, mobile network metadata) and what new methods can be developed to enable women. How will these experts inform each other's work? What new opportunities can be explored jointly by the Big Data and Gender Platforms? This session explores pressing questions on this topic.

Ethics, Privacy, Data Confidentiality and Cyber-Security

Identity and ethics of the digital age in agriculture

(part of the session Ethical delimmas of the digital age in agriculture)

October 17 8:30 - 9:15

Data and digital tools have the potential to accelerate a much-needed transformation of the agricultural sector. As has been famously said before, with great power comes great responsibility – thus democratization of benefits accruing from the generation of data-driven services and products is a common theme, as is individual protection and control over personal data. In the agriculture sector, this increasingly means farmers needing to be able to control access to and use of data that concerns them. Fast paced digital transformation is disruptive and raises concerns that norms are changing faster than they can be codified to address undesirable consequences – thus democratization of benefits accruing from the generation of data-driven services and products is a common concern, as is individual protection and control over personal data.

Regulators the world over are intervening to protect privacy and individual rights, and yet just over a year out from the most definitive intervention — Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) unforeseen consequences of the legislation are already emerging (silencing press, favoring incumbents, legal fragmentation and uncertainty, and high compliance costs), raising many questions: What is ethical? What is practical? How can we navigate these trends to transform our sector?

Data confidentiality at the heart of trust

October 17, 4:50 PM

Knowledge management has been recognized as a critical enabling factor for healthy agri-food systems, required to generate contextual information, processes and experiences, in order to improve productivity, increase profitability, reliability and resilience. Blockchain technology for data management ensures maximum transparency and protection / confidentiality in the collection, sharing and use of contributor data. This guarantees the customer the traceability (origin, acquisition methods, etc.), the validity (maintenance of data) and the exploitability of all data exchanged and used. In this session on technologies and practices for privacy and self sovereign identity: there will be some messages from key players working on this topic who are unable to attend in person, Monique Morrow (https://www.moniquemorrow.com/humanized-internet), and Emmanuel Aldeguer (https://smartfarmers.org/). Jim Wilgenbusch will give a short introduction on mapping regulations and frameworks for responsible data to international technical standards. Gideon Kruseman coordinates the informal group of CGIAR IRB folks and pushing an agenda for better privacy protection while ensuring the maximum possible level of open data. He will discuss implications of what is happening in terms of privacy safeguards for international agricultural research. Rama Iyer will highlight an ongoing effort on using blockchain to anonomize a 30 year village household survey on food security while still enabling wider research.

Blockchain coalition

Blockchain enabled transformation of food systems

October 16, 2:00PM

The population is expected to rise to nearly 10 billion people by 2050. With agricultural land expansion reaching its limits if we do not want to jeopardize the planetary boundaries related to biodiversity, carbon sequestration and environmental buffers provided by nature, we as humanity must increase agricultural productivity to feed this growing population while using less and less resources.

Climate change is bound to change crop suitability in different regions and extreme weather events threaten food supply, requiring sufficient buffers and hence higher production in favorable years.

Barring major catastrophes, profoundly disrupting civil unrest, widespread warfare, this growing population is bound to be more affluent than the current one. The population will be living predominantly in urban settings in contrast to today, where the majority of the world’s population is still living in rural areas. Urbanization and increased welfare is likely to induce changes in diets and in food systems as value chains become longer people and people buy more processed food, either as street food or in super-markets. The distance between commodity and food is growing. Moreover, in many countries in the world, we have witnessed a double burden of malnutrition (simultaneous occurrence of obesity and hidden hunger).

Continuing the way have been doing over the past decades is not going to ensure us having enough to eat while staying within planetary boundaries. We will have to do things radically different. At the root of many of the obstacles preventing the attainment of sustainable food systems are issues such as lack of trust and transparency, asymmetric information and weak institutions and poor governance. Blockchain enabled solutions can help to break down those barriers and thus become the game-changer that makes food systems sustainable in the long run.

The Strike Two Summit is a series of meetings to address the issues of digitally enabled food system transformation:

short video

Like in many tech savvy nations, in India, companies such as T-Hub are pushing an aggressive agenda to foster the digital transformation of agriculture and the CGIAR is pursuing an agenda to provide the scientific evidence of the process and to provide insight into the possible impact pathways.

longer video

Towards a learning platform for DLT

October 17, 4:00 PM

Lack of trust and transparency in input value chains is at the root of low adoption of new agricultural technology and hence the persistence of severe yield gaps in our target geographies. Lack of transparency in the provenance of food is hampering the valorization of hidden characteristics such as sustainable intensification practices, and bio-fortification and is sustaining food safety concerns around for instance aflatoxins. Digital trust and transparency technology solutions are experiencing rapid uptake in high-income countries. In order to make these technologies accessible and useable in dynamic and more complex agri-food systems in our target geographies requires an open and inclusive testing and learning platform where proofs-of-concept and pilots, both the use cases that succeeded and those that failed, are showcased based on rigorous scientific research on what worked or didn’t work and why in terms of the technologies, the business models, the partnerships, the institutional arrangements and governance structures. Once these are tested and evaluated using rigorous scientific research they can form a body of pre-competitive knowledge to accelerate and enhance the uptake of digital trust and transparency solutions to address the wicked challenges in our target geographies.

CIMMYT, CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, CTA and The Fork are developing a Digital Trust and Transparency Technology Testing and Learning Platform. In this session key partners of this initiative will explain the concepts and there will be open discussion on how this can help you navigate dynamic complex agri-food system challenges using technology within a socio-economic ecosystem.

build your own blockchain

Friday, October 18 • 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Organized jointly between the CGIAR Platform for Big data in Agriculture and BlockXpert.co. details coming soon

Pre-convention event

CoP SED meeting

Pre-conference event

October 15, 2:30 PM

Agenda

Taking stock of working groups
- 100Q a FAIR WG report out!
- SociO! a FAIR WG report out later this year
- OIMS a FAIR WG report out soon
- Gender meets Big Data report out soon
- Blockchain Coalition: Strike Two Summit
- Ethics, Privacy Data confidentiality and cyber-security: two working groups
Planning for 2020
- FAIR WGs:
  - Tagging models and model data
  - Using NLP to tag qualitative data
- Blockchain coalition: Digital trust and transparency learning platform
- Ethics, Privacy Data confidentiality and cyber-security: next steps
- Anything else???
Emerging issues in digital Agriculture (Cambridge University)
Engaging with the CoP

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