Data revolution

for Agriculture

Brussels Briefings ACP House

18th February 2015, Brussels, Belgium

Chris Addison Isolina Boto

The incredible expanding data universe

http://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/2014iview/executive-summary.htm

2005

0.13 ZB

2013 4.4 ZB

2020 44 ZB

“Unstructured data doubles every 2 years” 1 Zetabyte = 1 trillion Gigabytes

UNICEF

NASA

$20.00

Truly global data collection

2008

2015

Open Data & the next web

Imp

act

fro

m s

tud

y

Impact of Open Data for Smallholders Alterra WURint

Now

Potential

Imp

act

fro

m s

tud

y 0

1

2

3

4

Agribusiness sees the worth

GSMA GSDPM M-agri Mobile applications

iHub Innovation centres Developing mobile apps

Innovators & Innovation in ACP

Changing the way we do agricultural research?

New tools for agriculture

2015 Your1stsmartphone.org 1931

Smithsonian.com

Precision agriculture: Towards e-farmers?

Data: better evidence for policy?

More knowledge

• Knowing more about data quality (technology, use & content) and required skills

• Investing in pilots and upscaling

• Simplify data analytics for end users

• Actionable data to support decision-making

• Need for legal frameworks to guarantee data privacy and security

• Incentives for PPPs and new business models (trust, win-win): data for investment