can a data infrastructure become relevant to small businesses?
DESCRIPTION
Talk given to a stakeholder meeting organised by SemaGrow and agINFRA, focusing on how the agricultural data community and the data infrastructures come closer - giving the business potential and perspective (and especially the startups and SMEs).TRANSCRIPT
Nikos Manouselis Agro-Know Technologies
Can a data infrastructure become relevant to small
businesses?
We help organizations and people to address societal and
environmental challenges using solutions that are
informed and enhanced by high-quality data
We develop and put in real practice end-to-end, modular
solutions that transform data into meaningful knowledge
and services
Our values
use open data to solve meaningful societal challengescreate a data-powered ecosystem that may bootstrap agricultural & food innovationembrace all data sources, formats & types relevant to agricultural research & innovationpromote open source and open data
Our vision
To add value to the rich information available in the
wide spectrum of agricultural and biodiversity sciences
To make it universally accessible, useful and meaningful, through
innovative tools, services and applications
why agriculture?
a huge market, globally
Food & Agricultural commodities production, http://faostat.fao.org
some figures
• Food - Gross Production Value globally in 2011: $2,318,966,621 millions
• Agriculture - Gross Production Value globally in 2011: $2,405,001,443 millions
• Investment in agriculture - Gross Capital Stock globally: $5,356,830 millions
… they are big
e.g. how many B2B customers?
why (open) data?
One of the most promising routes to agriculture modernisation seems to be the provision of Open Data to all interested parties
• In an era of Big Data, one of the most promising routes to bootstrap innovation is by the use of Open Data:– e.g. provisioning, maintaining, enriching with relevant
metadata, making openly available a vast amount of• The use and wide dissemination of these data sets is
strongly advocated by a number of global and national agricultural policy makers such as:– New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition G-8– Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN– DEFRA & DFID in UK– USDA & USAID in the US
open data for businesses
“new businesses and new business models are beginning to emerge: Suppliers, aggregators, developers, enrichers and enablers”“key link in the value chain for open data is the consumer…direct relevance to the choices individuals make as part of their day-to-day lives”
is data plug and play?• No!
– requires a deep understanding of the data– requires excellent data processing & analysis skills– requires very good technical skills
• will evolve into a data-powered value chain– the companies that develop innovative agro/ food
products (agro apps consumers) need…– …companies that build apps on agro data (agro data
consumers, agro apps producers) who need…– companies that process agro data (data science powered)
Agro/food industryAgro/food industry
Agro data providers (FAO, CAAS, DEFRA,
DFID, etc)
Agro data providers (FAO, CAAS, DEFRA,
DFID, etc)
Agro/food research & academia
Agro/food research & academia
Agricultural software app/tool/service
companies
Agricultural data
scientists
Data science community
Data science community
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Tech/IT industry & start ups
Tech/IT industry & start ups
Agricultural data
aggregators
an ecosystem that could look like this
what about the infrastructure?
All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services
typical infrastructure assumptions
Data Repositories
Grid & cloud infrastructure
some magic software called
Scientific Gateway
(or whatever)
A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services
(or whatever)
All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services
typical infrastructure assumptions
Data Repositories
Grid & cloud infrastructure
some magic software called
Scientific Gateway
(or whatever)
A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services
(or whatever)
All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services
from a business perspective
Data Repositories
Grid & cloud infrastructure
An API backbone exposing data processing & management software
A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services
(or whatever)
All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services
what we still know nothing of
Data Repositories
Grid & cloud infrastructure
An API backbone exposing data processing & management software
A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services
(or whatever)
“Integrated Services”: who builds them?
A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services
(or whatever)
maybe they can reach out to the researchers
All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services
Agricultural data
scientists
Agricultural data
aggregators
Agricultural software
app/tool/service companies
is there a market beyond research & education?
there is more…
…and more…
…and much much more
why do we (Agro-Know) care?
Unorganized Content in local and remote sites
Widgets
Authoring services
Data Discovery Services
Analytics services
Agro-Know Data Platform
Ingestion Translation Publication
Harvesting BlossomCultivation
Organized and structured Content in local and remote
DBs
Educational
Bibliographic
Other
Enrichment
Aggregate data from diverse sources
Works with different type
of data
Prepare data for
meaningful services
Educational
Bibliographic
data aggregation & sharing hub
Agro/food industryAgro/food industry
Agro data providers (FAO, CAAS, DEFRA,
DFID, etc)
Agro data providers (FAO, CAAS, DEFRA,
DFID, etc)
Agro/food research & academia
Agro/food research & academia
Agricultural software app/tool/service
companies
Agricultural data
scientists
Data science community
Data science community
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Tech/IT industry & start ups
Tech/IT industry & start ups
Agricultural data
aggregators
in a data-powered value chain like this...
…we are here… we have a gap here
not only “hacks”
but sustainable data products
its a long way to go
Open Agro Data Hackathons
Open Agro Data Hackathons
AccelerationBoot campsAccelerationBoot camps
Ag & Food Business
Meet Ups
Demo & Investor Days
Demo & Investor Days
Introductory Courses
Introductory Courses
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take away point
“The future belongs to the companies
that turn data into products”
