2010-05 ciard general presentation - english -v2.0
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2010-07 CIARD General Presentation by Dr. Stephen Rudgard. African Agricultural Science Week. (Burkina Faso)TRANSCRIPT
GENERAL PRESENTATION [email protected]
A new way forwardCoherence in Information for Agricultural Research
for Development
Why is coherence in agricultural information
so important? • Innovation systems in
agriculture are critical to the fight against hunger & sustainable use of natural resources
• Rapid agricultural innovation is knowledge-intensive and depends on access to information
• Coherence in information management will increase efficiency of knowledge sharing/exchange and reduce duplication
Why enhance access to agricultural information?
• Most public domain agricultural information not yet widely accessible
• New types of research, organisations, and collaboration create new demands
• Improving the way the partners work together requires greater information and information flow systems
Global and Local Challenges in Research Communication
• Capacities– Lack of institutional policies to enable research communication– Lack of specialized skills in complex digital technologies
• Diversity of Responses– Customized Information/Knowledge Systems – In-house IKM Programmes– Institutional Networks– National Initiatives– R&D Community Forums/Platforms– Virtual and Web2.0 tools for Participation/Interaction
A new partnership for truly accessible information
CIARD - new global movement
formed in 2008 building on consultations in 2005 and 2007
to provide a platform for coherence between information-related initiatives
Founding Partners
and growing…..
The Community
A Manifesto
The CIARD vision
“To make public domain agricultural research information and knowledge truly accessible to
all”
• All organizations that create and possess public agricultural research information disseminate and share it more widely
• CIARD partners will (a) coordinate their efforts, (b) promote common formats, (c) adopt open systems
• Create a global network of public collections of information
The CIARD Values
To increase the benefits from investments in agricultural research and innovation for
development, the partners in the CIARD initiative have agreed to make research outputs truly
accessible, based on a common set of values
“Values” : capacity
• promote and build self-sufficiency and local ownership
• develop capacities needed to design and manage policies, skills and technologies
• integrate action at policy, institution, and individual levels
“Values” : content
• collect and make accessible outputs
• encourage use/re-use of outputs• help researchers communicate
their outputs• build/use ‘open’ systems and
applications • customize outputs for specific
audiences • conserve outputs for the future
• ensure actions complement at local, national and global level
• promote dialogue and active collaboration
• adopt common principles and standards
“Values” : coherence
• promote new approaches• encourage change in attitudes,
policies and institutions• provide evidence of real benefits
“Values” : investment
What are we already doing?
Advocacy Task Force
Capacity Building Task Force
Content Management Task Force
Developing Institutional Readiness
1. Introduce and gain support for the CIARD Manifesto and Values in your institution
2. Have your institution recognised as a CIARD partner
3. Adopt a formal institutional information/ communication strategy
4. Develop the capacities of your institution to achieve the CIARD Checklist
5. Develop national/local partner networks to share resources and skills
Increasing the Availability, Accessibility and Applicability of
Research Outputs
6. Ensure your research outputs are available digitally.
7. Develop institutional or thematic information repositories of your outputs as open archives.
8. Use international metadata standards, data exchange protocols, and agricultural vocabularies and thesauri.
9. Develop a clearly defined licensing policy for your outputs.
10. Optimize the structure and the content of web sites for search engines.
11. Share metadata by participating in international information systems.
12. Use ‘social’ Web 2.0 media and applications to share your outputs.
13. Build formal and informal networks to to repackage your outputs.
Checklist of Good Practices
www.ciard.net
Routemap to Information Nodes and Gateways (RING)
Pathways
Creative Commons
CAB Abstracts
AgMES
CIARD: Benefits to Institutions
• increased national/international visibility and use of their research output and content services
• increased exchange of information content between their system(s) and others
• increased awareness of other research outputs through information content and services
• increased access to specialised expertise and knowledge and other partners’ proven solutions
CIARD: Institutions’ Contributions
• promote and implement the CIARD vision and objectives
• register products and services on research outputs through the CIARD RING
• adopt/promote international standards related to digital research outputs
• register institutional profile on Checklist
• share lessons learned and expperiences
Consultations
2009: CIARD agenda validated at 5 regional consultations by 150 agricultural information/knowledge specialists
from 70 countries2010: GCARD – IAALD Congress (France) – USAINUrgent need to reach out to three stakeholder groups
(a) rectors/directors / managers(b) researchers / academics(c) information specialists
What else could/should we be doing together?