Can a data infrastructure become relevant to small businesses?
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The document outlines the potential for small businesses, particularly in agriculture, to leverage open data for modernization and innovation. Agro-Know Technologies emphasizes the importance of creating a data-powered ecosystem that includes diverse data sources and integrates various stakeholders in agricultural research and industry. It advocates for the development of tools and services that can transform data into valuable products, ultimately enhancing the agricultural sector's efficiency and effectiveness.
Can a data infrastructure become relevant to small businesses?
- 1. Can a data infrastructure become relevant to small businesses? Nikos Manouselis Agro-Know Technologies [email protected]
- 2. 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
- 3. Our values use open data to solve meaningful societal challenges create a data-powered ecosystem that may bootstrap agricultural & food innovation embrace all data sources, formats & types relevant to agricultural research & innovation promote open source and open data
- 4. 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
- 6. a huge market, globally Food & Agricultural commodities production, http://faostat.fao.org
- 7. 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
- 8. e.g. how many B2B customers?
- 10. 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
- 11. 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”
- 12. 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)
- 13. an ecosystem that could look like this Tech/IT Tech/IT industry & industry & start ups start ups Data science Data science community community Agricultural data scientists Agricultural data aggregators Agricultural software app/tool/service companies Agro/food industry Agro/food industry Agro data providers Agro data providers (FAO, CAAS, DEFRA, (FAO, CAAS, DEFRA, DFID, etc) DFID, etc) Agro/food research & Agro/food research & academia academia 13
- 14. what about the infrastructure?
- 15. typical infrastructure assumptions A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services (or whatever) Grid & cloud infrastructure some magic software called Scientific Gateway (or whatever) Data Repositories All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services
- 16. typical infrastructure assumptions A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services (or whatever) Grid & cloud infrastructure some magic software called Scientific Gateway (or whatever) Data Repositories All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services
- 17. from a business perspective A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services (or whatever) Grid & cloud infrastructure An API backbone exposing data processing & management software Data Repositories All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services
- 18. what we still know nothing of A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services (or whatever) Grid & cloud infrastructure An API backbone exposing data processing & management software Data Repositories All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services
- 19. “Integrated Services”: who builds them? A legion of software apps/tools/services that researchers use called Integrated Services (or whatever)
- 20. maybe they can reach out to the researchers Agricultural data scientists Agricultural data aggregators Agricultural software app/tool/service companies All the researchers of the world waiting eagerly to use our enchanted software apps/tools/services
- 21. is there a market beyond research & education?
- 25. there is more…
- 26. …and more…
- 27. …and much much more
- 29. why do we (Agro-Know) care?
- 30. data aggregation & sharing hub Cultivation Harvesting Ingestion Enrichment Translation Blossom Publication Educational Bibliographic Data Discovery Services Unorganized Content in local and remote sites Agro-Know Data Platform Widgets Educational Bibliographic Other Aggregate data from diverse sources Works with different type of data Prepare data for meaningful services Authoring services Organized and structured Content in local and remote DBs Analytics services
- 31. in a data-powered value chain like this... … we have a gap here Tech/IT Tech/IT industry & industry & start ups start ups Data science Data science community community Agricultural data scientists …we are here Agricultural data aggregators Agricultural software app/tool/service companies Agro/food industry Agro/food industry Agro data providers Agro data providers (FAO, CAAS, DEFRA, (FAO, CAAS, DEFRA, DFID, etc) DFID, etc) Agro/food research & Agro/food research & academia academia 31
- 32. not only “hacks”
- 33. but sustainable data products
- 34. its a long way to go Introductory Introductory Courses Courses Open Agro Data Open Agro Data Hackathons Hackathons Acceleration Acceleration Boot camps Boot camps Ag & Food Business Meet Ups Demo & Demo & Investor Days Investor Days 34
- 35. take away point
- 36. “The future belongs to the companies that turn data into products”
Editor's Notes
- #31: From data cultivation to data blossom, the Agricultural Data platform is an end-to-end modular solution that can transform data into meaningful services. The agricultural data are harvested from diverse sources and after they enrichment are published through a set of web services to external systems. The enrichment of data includes: improvement of data descriptions annotation of data with ontologies translation of data descriptions The enrichment of the data allows the development of high quality services for specific agricultural communities. Publishing is responsible for the exposure of agricultural data in a form that can be used a) for the development of data discovery services b) authoring services and c) analytics dashboards to track and study how the agricultural data are used.