NEWS
As one of GODAN's components is innovation, we aim to explore opportunities and challenges that arise from using datasets and encourage youth to innovate. GODAN will sponsor the CTA AgriHack Durban Hackathon Challenge winners for the Best Use of Open...Read more
27/11/2015
GODAN area:
Food security
Keywords:
Open data
“It's really powerful. It's in people's hands; it's in people's homes. How do we use it for the greater good?” GODAN partner VOTO Mobile is a three-year old Ghana-based tech startup and social enterprise which helps businesses, governments, and NGOs use mobile technologies to gather information and feedback through interactive...Open
27/11/2015
blog
Keywords:
Open data
Tanzanian GODAN partner Agrinfo uses geodata to share farmland information and enable farmers to better manage their land. The organization does this, explains marketing director Jumo Ngomuo, by collecting the GPS locations of farms and assessing their ownership and area size, type of investment and expected outputs. By collecting such...Open
24/11/2015
blog
Today, the US Government announces major new funding at the Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa to achieve food security by 2030, as part of its commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These goals will be finalised in...Read more
15/07/2015
GODAN area:
Food security | Poverty alleviation
Keywords:
Government data | Open data
A roundtable session on open data in agriculture was recently held during recent Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) 2015, held in Abu Dhabi. The roundtable session, convened by the CGIAR, looked at the current open data situation in...Read more
11/03/2015
Keywords:
Open data