Dr. Kenneth Mubea

Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD)

GODAN Action webinar: Sharing open data and capacity development

experiences from RCMRD

29 November 2017, 4 – 5 pm CET

Outline

1) RCMRD

2) Collaboration

3) Lessons learnt

4) Way forward

RCMRD

SERVIR

Service Areas

Applied Science Team (AST) Projects

Partnerships - Weather, Climate, Agriculture

• Kenya Meteorological Department

• NDMA

• Kenya Water Towers

• Northen Rangelends Trust (NRT)

Collaboration with University of Maryland

National Early Warning Crop Monitor

• Develop timely, actionable and

easily interpretable products on

crop conditions (feed into

GEOGLAM crop monitor)

• Strengthen State Department of

Agriculture (SDA’s) capacity in

Agriculture Monitoring &

Assessments

• Streamline field Data collection and

reporting

• Customization to include country

specific datasets and reporting

metrics

• Develop food bulletin

• Stakeholders: RCMRD, State

Department of Agriculture, ICPAC

GeoGLAM Africa Synthesis

Agricultural Crop Mask Development

• Current crop mask being used is over 10 years old

• Due to climate change, cropping zones have changed

• Need to assess changes in crop production zones for

better decision making

• The developed crop mask will be used as an input to

RHEAS, disseminated to FEWSNET & other

stakeholders such as the State Department of Agriculture

(Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock) and DRSRS.

• RHEAS(Regional Hydrological extremes Assessment

System)

Collaboration with State Department of Agriculture

• Kenya is 3rd largest tea producer. Exports: 4% of GDP

• Stakeholders: Kericho County Government; KTRF;

Large-scale tea farmers; Small-scale farmers

• Collaboration with insurance in development of a

weather based tea insurance index.

Frost Monitoring and Forecasting

Collaborations - GODAN

AgriGIS Workshop and Think Tank meetings, 27 – 28 October 2016,

RCMRD, Nairobi, Kenya.

Goal: Promote the use of open software, open data and open science in the

agriculture

Participants: experts, senior policy officers, academics, researchers, and

post graduate students. (50 participants). Link: http://www.godan.info/events/agrigis-workshop-and-thinktank

Collaborations – GODAN, CANIS, CTA

Data Centred Student Led

Agricultural Transformation

Open Data Training & Partnership

Workshop: 4 – 5 Oct 2017

Collaborations - TAHMO

Goal: leveraging weather data through robust and cost-effective stations for

enhanced water and agricultural productivity that leads to economic growth in

Sub-Saharan Africa.

TAHMO signed MoU with RCMRD in March 2017.

Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory

https://school2school.net/

Open Data Partnership

Beneficiaries:

• Universities

• schools

Collaborations - TAHMO

Installation of Automatic weather stations (AWS) in RCMRD & partners. This

will improve the weather information value chain, bridge resilience to effects of

climate change.

Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory

https://school2school.net/

AWS – RCMRDAWS – Ardhi University

Weather Information Value Chain

RCMRD Space Challenge 2017

Goal: Equip students with skills in environmental degradation, climate

change and its drivers. Contribute to STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math , SDG’s.

Mode: Obtain reading from automatic weather stations (AWS) installed by TAHMO,

GLOBE. This will be annual in Kenya, Uganda (Akorion).

Partners: GLOBE, TAHMO, 4-H Kenya, KMD, KNATCOM, EsriVideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v5WTv8J79M&t=1s

Nasokol Girls School (first)St. Scholastica Primary School (second)

Collaborations - LandPKS

Data sets: climate,

soils, topography,

wind, crop productivity,

vegetation

Projects: Kenya:

Northern

Rangelands Trust

(NRT) , Vital signs,

Namibia: Rangeland

Health Assessment -,

Bush Encroachment

assessment and

biomass estimation

http://landpotential.org/landpks/app

Collaboration with Akorion - Uganda

ICT to efficiently provide agro value chain services to farmers and

those who serve them.

Link: https://youtu.be/T72TFTSbl5A

Open Data Training & Partnership

Collaboration with CODATA

CODATA AGRICULTURE TASK GROUP (ATG) Agriculture Data, Knowledge for Learning and Innovation Group

• Partners: CODATA, KALRO, JKUAT, CABI, RCMRD, KEFRI

• Coordinate efforts on agricultural research data - SDGs and Africa

Union 2063 agenda

• Platform: KAINet - improve agro value chain

• Webinar: 5 Dec 2017 (4 - 5 pm, GMT +3)

RCMRD Open Data

RCMRD Open data: http://opendata.rcmrd.org/

Open Data & Partnership

Lessons Learnt

Stakeholder mapping

Collaboration and learning

Co-development – capacity building, products, tools

Data journalism – open data

Monitoring and evaluation

Impact – success stories

Way forward

Partnerships – MoU, data sharing

Public Private Partnerships (PPP)

Capacity building

Outreach

Link to SDG’s

Space Challenge e.g. RCMRD Space Challenge

Innovation workshops e.g. hackathons

Role of ICT 4 Agriculture e.g. apps, updates

Big data – Data cubes

ThanksOur contacts

The Director General

Regional Centre for Mapping for

Resource Development(RCMRD)

P. O. Box 632-00618

www.rcmrd.org, rcmrd@rcmrd.org,

The presenter

Dr. Kenneth Mubea

mubea@rcmrd.org