World Food Summit 1996 Reducing Hunger and Poverty in the World by 50% in 2015

2. World Food Summit 1996 Reducing Hunger and Poverty in the World by 50% in 2015 "The Rome Declaration calls upon us to reduce by half the number of chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year 2015 .... If each of us gives his or her best I believe that we can meet and even exceed the target we have set for ourselves.""The Rome Declaration calls upon us to reduce by half the number of chronically undernourished people on the Earth by the year 2015 .... If each of us gives his or her best I believe that we can meet and even exceed the target we have set for ourselves.“ "We have the possibility to do it. We have the knowledge. We have the resources. And with the Rome Declaration and the Plan of Action, we've shown that we have the will."

3. Information and Knowledge Management at FAO • The First Article of the FAO Constitution:“The Organization shall collect, analyse, interpret and disseminate information relating to nutrition, food and agriculture.” • A specific objective of FAO’s Strategic Framework • In response to the World Food Summit (1996) • “improve decision-making through the provision of information and assessments and fostering of knowledge management for food and agriculture.” • A new focus on FAO as a “Knowledge Organization” as approved by the FAO Council

4. DEAL – India Digital Ecosystem of Knowledge for Development in Agriculture Jayanta Chatterje jayanta@iitk.ac.in http://www.iitk.ac.in/ime/jayanta/ TV Prabhakar tvp@iitk.ac.in http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/tvp/ Johannes Keizer Johannes.Keizer@fao.org http://www.johanneskeizer.com

5. As it started: Digital Mandi Mandi in Hindi means “a place where trading” happens We wanted an electronic mandi Created a platform for buying and selling agri goods and futures trading Quickly realized it won’t work Moved to a “knowledge mandi”

6. CHALLENGES ON THE SOFTSIDE Our Survey research in North Indian states shows that less than 10% of the Krishi Vigyan Kendra and other extension initiatives actively “use web based content” or “contribute web based content”. Yet there are more than a hundred active ICT initiatives across the country. Learning: 1. There is a gap between the content provided and content wanted by experts in the field. 2. Need of knowledge based and self managed agro advisory service

7. Gap analysis The content that is online and free, is often not updated regularly, is not coordinated with other providers, so there is lot of duplication of general information and not enough ‘specific’ local information, making “pertinent content” harder to find. Learning: Create user attractor tools, platforms and socio-technical processes that encourage a self-managed ,evolving and sustainable ecosystem of content users and creators.

8. Deliverables from the DEAL project: • Ecology like self managed growth model of the digital knowledge base. • An ontology & metadata system that supports the knowledge archiving & retrieval reuse in Indian Agriculture and rural livelihood domain. • Web based services for digital content aggregation and delivery to agriculture and rural livelihood related portals. • Search tools for automated assistance to Digital Content Management in Hindi and other local languages for the backend operation of  Kissan Response and Village Knowledge Centers.

9. Standardised Information Collection & Dissemination MANAGE IIPR CSA HBTI Agriculture Universities Institutes Mobile National Krishi resources ज्ञान धारा ICAR KVK Web DEAL Rural Citizen International Agriculture resources ICRISAT Radio FAO TV Sharamik Bharti Performance जन ज्ञान Other NGO’s Deployment Partners Conceptual Architecture for a self managed ecosystem

10. Click here for Hindi Click here for English http://www.dealindia.org KisanBlog ( Audio Blog) News posting Video Clips Documents & PPTs DEAL RSS Reader & Feader News Archive for Agriculture Articles Weather Report

11. Fruits 1 2 Hindi Taxonomy of Mango Mango Description of Mango 3 4

12. Fruits 5 6 English Taxonomy of Mango Mango Description of Mango 7 8

13. Profiles of KVK Scientists Add Local Knowledge of Crops KVK Unnao Local Crops 17 18 Knowledge Creation tool 19 20 Image Gallery Local knowledge of crops

14. Various Video clips to show to the farmers 37 38 Video Clip Playing

15. Steps of Posting is as following Homepage of KISANBLOG 40 39 41 42 43

16. All Comments of a particular ques. Administrator sees all comments 45 44 46 47 Hindi typing tool Administrator can see all questions

17. Knowledge Organisation Consultancy DEAL IITK KVK VKC Training Content Knowledge Acquisition Knowledge Visualisation VKC : Village Knowledge Centers KVK : Krishi Vigyan Kendra

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21. Visual info. of Fruits Description of Fruits 53

22. Selected item info. Will be shown 54

23. What is Agropedia? • Agriculture Knowledge Repository • Of universal Meta models • And localized content • For a variety of users • With appropriate interfaces • Built in collaborative mode • In Multiple languages

25. Aggregated Database View Subject-specific Portals Open URL or OAI based services Web Services Information System (n) Subject ontologies Metadata ontologies (Application Profiles) The Common Exchange Layer Value-added Information Services XML Bus Shared layer of interoperability Distributed Datasets Database Websites Database ...

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