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Title: Stephen Rudgard


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Management and Communication of
Agricultural Scientific Information
Stephen Rudgard Chief WAICENT Capacity Building
and Outreach
2
Contents
  • The Challenge
  • Objectives
  • Constraints
  • Institutional Capacities
  • Human Capacities
  • Partnerships

3
Principal Challenge
Agricultural Research Organizations
  • Core competencies in Research Development
  • Imperative
  • to acquire information and
  • to communicate outputs.
  • Opportunities in the New Technologies

Many Organizations are not addressing the
challenge adequately.
4
Key Objectives
  • Information Content - in digital format, for
    agriculture and rural development
  • Innovative Mechanisms and Processes for
    information digitization and exchange, and for
    communication
  • Networks amongst key stakeholders

5
Key Constraints
  • Institutional Capacities lack of resources and
    appropriate organizational structures
  • Human Capacities lack of awareness and skills
  • Partnerships poor outreach to key service
    providers and audiences

6
Institutional Capacities Investing in Information
  • New Institutional Structures
  • New Skills and/or New People
  • New Content Digital
  • New Technologies
  • Minimise impact of change
  • learn lessons from others
  • use existing technologies

7
Who are the stakeholders?
  • Rural communities and their representatives
  • Other scientists
  • Government policy-makers and their advisers

8
Priority Areas
  • Document management and e-publishing
  • Rural information and communication systems
  • Decision support tools

9
Document Management
AGRIS Network Manage Disseminate Documents
www.fao.org/agris
10
New AGRIS Vision (2002)
  • decentralized approach
  • greater diversity of participating organizations
  • strengthened role in capacity building
  • focus on full text documents
  • greater availability of associated information
    about activities/organizations/people
  • set of web-enabled standards (AGMES),
    methodologies (AGRIS Application Profiles,
    AGROVOC), and tools (WebAGRIS)

11
Rural Information and Communication Systems
  • Networking tools and processes for exchange and
    access to information and communication

VERCON (Virtual Extension, Research and
Communication Network)
FarmNet - Farmers Information Network
12
Decision-support Tools(for policymakers)
  • Briefings
  • Policy Papers
  • Prediction Models

13
Human Capacities
Information Management Resource Kit
(IMARK) Partnership-based e-learning initiative
  • Modules - a series of computer-based distance
    learning curricula and resources
  • On-line Community - a "virtual" community on the
    Internet for contributors and learners

14
IMARK Modules
  • Published
  • Management of Electronic Documents
  • Digitization and Digital Libraries
  • Mid-2005
  • Investing in Agricultural Information
  • Building Electronic Communities

15
IMARK supporting AGRIS
  • Blended learning
  • Face-to-Face
  • Distance
  • Institutional networks
  • SIDALC
  • INFOTEC
  • Regional Training Courses
  • National Training Courses

16
Building Partnerships to Build Capacity
  • National/Regional
  • NARS
  • Universities
  • IICA
  • CARDI
  • FORAGRO
  • etc.
  • International
  • FAO
  • GFAR
  • CGIAR
  • BID
  • World Bank
  • etc

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Summary
  • Institutional change
  • Investment
  • Tools and guidelines
  • Capacity building
  • Partnership
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