Development of a National Agricultural Information System

(NAIS)

Presented by: Eng. Basma’a al-Manaseer

17-20,April 2009

NAIS

Project Symbol:TCP/JOR/3102 (D) Starting Date: October 2007 Completion Date: December 2009 Government Ministry responsible for project

execution: Ministry of Agriculture FAO Contribution: US$272 000

NAISObjective

The objective of the project is to strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture to establish an effective and efficient information system that will support agricultural development and ensure food security in Jordan, based on the needs and demands of its stakeholders and integrating the various resources in the MOA.

NAIS

Modules

NAIS AchievementsNAIS AchievementsOrganizational arrangements:- Designation of the National Project

Coordinator. -

Establishment of the NAIS Technical Steering Committee.

- Joint Supervisory Technical Service mission by GIL and RNE to launch project activities

FAO

NRC

JNAL

AGRIS

ACCMOI

NIC

FU

DOS

ENCAREMOA

NAIS

NAIS Technical Steering committee

- Initial workshop of representatives from agricultural institutions and stations and other stakeholder groups(22/10/2007)

- Seminar for senior managers and donors in the agricultural sector (24/10/2007).

Recruitment of national consultants as: - Information and Communication Management (ICM) Specialist -Telecommunications and Networking (TN)-Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Specialist. -Recruitment of national Project Technical Adviser (PTA) as recommended during the inception mission

Issuing Letter of Agreement (LOA) for national institution in Jordan for providing a technical assessment study for the existing information systems and applications in MOA and other stakeholders’ organizations for integrating various existing applications into a NAIS application

- Workshop to discuss the draft national information strategy for agricultural science and technology with the steering committee and stakeholders (27/8/2008).

- Assessment of the current status and preparation of recommendations for computer hardware and software, and communication infrastructure

- Study tour for four specialized information staff to receive on the job training programme in information management systems/ tools development and management.

- Workshop to present the revised national information strategy for agricultural science and technology to the steering committee and stakeholders

-Procurement of hardware and software at each site provided by Government of Jordan, where necessary, as required for accessing the NAIS via the Internet.

- Implementation for NAIS development prototype by FAO/RNE is completed and deployment of NAIS modules/ systems are taking place

www.nais-jordan.gov.jo

Under WorkingUnder Working

- Training of Trainers’ workshop on the use of the NAIS/AGRIS Application Profile including guidelines and procedures for documents indexing and cataloguing for the Research outputs and Publications information system modules for staff from NAIS stakeholders

- Staff Training

• Training

Training LaboratoryTraining Laboratory

- Establishment and development of the virtual Jordan Agricultural Information Centre (JAIC) including institutional issues with roles and responsibilities; and activating the roles and responsibilities of already established NAIS steering and technical committees.

What we will do from 2008-2010

Institutional Development Establishment and development of the virtual

Jordan Agricultural Information Centre (JAIC) Training activities- Training of trainers’ workshop on the use of the

NAIS/AGRIS Application Profile- Training of ten national technical staff in

various aspects of the information cycle - Training core staff (administrators and

researchers) from the participating institutions and centers

- Training activities for stakeholders

Training of Trainers on the principles and practice of designing, building, and maintaining computer networks systems

training on Network Security System (NSS) to protect NAIS Network

Conducting stakeholders' workshops and delivering presentations at relevant events, to increase awareness of Internet technology and the NAIS initiative.

Completion of the overall computer hardware and communication infrastructure in MOA

Four Components to be explained (Publications, Projects, Experts /Researchers and Institutions).

National Information Strategy for Agricultural Science and Technology

in Jordan

The vision is to develop an effective and efficient network for harnessing information and knowledge for a transformed and sustainable agricultural sector that is modernized, productive, profitable and competitive nationally, regionally and internationally.

The mission is to build a common and freely accessible information system through partnership in the generation, collection, processing, archival, and dissemination of agricultural information.

Vision and Mission

The goal is to contribute to the transformation of Jordan’s agricultural sector to one that is modernized, productive, profitable and competitive nationally, regionally and internationally.

Specific Objectives is to strengthen availability, accessibility, applicability, sharing of agricultural information and knowledge to researchers, managers, decision makers and others stakeholders.

Goal Specific Objectives

STRUCTURE OF REQUIRED INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Top Management and Decision

Support Systems (DSS)

C

Administrative and Financial

Systems (AFS) D

Human Resources Information

(HR)B

Scientific& Technological Information

Systems(STI) A

The Proposed NAIS SetupOrganizational Chart for the National System Unit / Centre for the Agricultural Information

Agriculture Minister

Networks & Communications

Consultant

Information Technology Consultant

Secretary General

Project Steering Committee

Project UnitInformation Directorate

Secretary

Computer Programmer

Project Engineer Participant Entities Liaison Officers

Central Directorates

Liaison Officers

Information & Communications

Consultant

Information Technology Consultant

Technical Advisor

IMPLEMETATION REQUIREMENT Infrastructure Requirement Human Resources Requirement Management Requirement Information Systems Requirement Standardization Requirement Financial Resources Requirement

Outputs Guiding principles of the information strategy

framework Proposed information modules (First Group)

for technical information (TI) requested by the stakeholders

Proposed information modules (Second Group) for scientific and technological information (STI) required by the stakeholders

Guidelines to establish and implement information and communication management (ICM) standards, policies and procedures to make content available, accessible and exchangeable

Outputs

Guideline to strengthen information management organization structure (directorate/centre) at MOA and Partners Groups

Proposed plan to improve and upgrade ICM infrastructure.

Procedures to establish cooperation and partnership with regional and international organizations

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