Data revolution
for Agriculture
Chris Addison
Isolina Boto
18th
Brussels Briefings
ACP House
February 2015, Brussels, Belgium
The incredible expanding data universe
“Unstructured data doubles every 2 years”
1 Zetabyte = 1 trillion Gigabytes
2020
44 ZB
2013
4.4 ZB
2005
0.13 ZB
http://www.emc.com/leadership/digital-universe/2014iview/executive-summary.htm
Truly global data collection
NASA
$20.00
UNICEF
Open Data & the next web
2015
2008
Impact of Open Data for Smallholders
Alterra WURint
0
study
fromstudy
Impactfrom
Impact
3
2
1
4
Now
Potential
Agribusiness sees the worth
Innovators & Innovation in ACP
iHub Innovation centres
Developing mobile apps
GSDPM
M-agri
Mobile applications
GSMA
Changing the
way we do
agricultural
research?
New tools for agriculture
1931
Smithsonian.com
2015
Your1stsmartphone.org
Precision agriculture: Towards e-farmers?
Data: better evidence for policy?
More knowledge
• Knowing more about data quality (technology, use &
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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