Jam Followup

The Africa Open Data Jam Teleconference

Jam Follow-up Agenda:

A. Peer-to-Peer Open Data - Jeanne Holm

1. Many developing countries lack data about agriculture, climate, and other national and transnational issues

2. Sometimes there is data in other private and public repositories that is not available to or usable by developing nations (from a lack of awareness, skills, capacity, or trust)

3. This external and internal data could be combined to provide open data to everyone

4. New datasets are also coming online that provide exciting capabilities, like imaging underwater reserves or crop plantings via NASA satellites

5. Even with all this data, there remains missing information about the exact kinds of crops and yields and market prices

6. People on the ground in developing nations could be encouraged to fill in these gaps by providing the data via SMS, webapps, and other tools

7. We need to create a solution architecture to bring all these pieces together

8. We need a country willing to work with us as a test case on implementing this architecture.