The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), in collaboration with the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), hosted an International Expert Consultation on the theme “Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing”. The International Consultation was organized by the Coherence in Information in Agricultural Research for Development (CIARD) partners.

 

 

From 20 to 23 June 2011 in Beijing, China

 

 

This International Expert Consultation, which was preceded by an electronic consultation on the e-agriculture platform (http://www.e-agriculture.org/en/forums/forum-archive/e-consultation-ciard-framework-data-and-information-sharing), considered steps that need to be taken globally to build a framework for data and information sharing for agricultural research for development. Some suggestions included developing linked open data, open data repositories, registries of services and data sets, common vocabularies, standards etc. There may be additional activities needed among various ARD stakeholders and actors such as in advocacy, capacity development, collaboration etc. at various levels, communities, countries and regions to bring more rapid fruition to this important activity to improve agricultural research for development globally.

 

As integral part of the consultation, on 20 June 2011 an Infoshare Market Place took place where participants and their organizations could share their activities in information sharing.

 

 

Participation was through invitation. 

 

Contact: 

Ms. Bi Jiyeng,
c/o GFAR Secretariat, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153
Rome, Italy
jyingbi@yahoo.com