sharing open data and capacity development experiences from rcmrd
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Dr. Kenneth Mubea
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD)
GODAN Action webinar: Sharing open data and capacity development
experiences from RCMRD
29 November 2017, 4 – 5 pm CET
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Outline
1) RCMRD
2) Collaboration
3) Lessons learnt
4) Way forward
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RCMRD
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SERVIR
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Service Areas
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Applied Science Team (AST) Projects
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Partnerships - Weather, Climate, Agriculture
• Kenya Meteorological Department
• NDMA
• Kenya Water Towers
• Northen Rangelends Trust (NRT)
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Collaboration with University of Maryland
National Early Warning Crop Monitor
• Develop timely, actionable and
easily interpretable products on
crop conditions (feed into
GEOGLAM crop monitor)
• Strengthen State Department of
Agriculture (SDA’s) capacity in
Agriculture Monitoring &
Assessments
• Streamline field Data collection and
reporting
• Customization to include country
specific datasets and reporting
metrics
• Develop food bulletin
• Stakeholders: RCMRD, State
Department of Agriculture, ICPAC
GeoGLAM Africa Synthesis
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Agricultural Crop Mask Development
• Current crop mask being used is over 10 years old
• Due to climate change, cropping zones have changed
• Need to assess changes in crop production zones for
better decision making
• The developed crop mask will be used as an input to
RHEAS, disseminated to FEWSNET & other
stakeholders such as the State Department of Agriculture
(Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock) and DRSRS.
• RHEAS(Regional Hydrological extremes Assessment
System)
Collaboration with State Department of Agriculture
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• Kenya is 3rd largest tea producer. Exports: 4% of GDP
• Stakeholders: Kericho County Government; KTRF;
Large-scale tea farmers; Small-scale farmers
• Collaboration with insurance in development of a
weather based tea insurance index.
Frost Monitoring and Forecasting
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Collaborations - GODAN
AgriGIS Workshop and Think Tank meetings, 27 – 28 October 2016,
RCMRD, Nairobi, Kenya.
Goal: Promote the use of open software, open data and open science in the
agriculture
Participants: experts, senior policy officers, academics, researchers, and
post graduate students. (50 participants). Link: http://www.godan.info/events/agrigis-workshop-and-thinktank
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Collaborations – GODAN, CANIS, CTA
Data Centred Student Led
Agricultural Transformation
Open Data Training & Partnership
Workshop: 4 – 5 Oct 2017
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Collaborations - TAHMO
Goal: leveraging weather data through robust and cost-effective stations for
enhanced water and agricultural productivity that leads to economic growth in
Sub-Saharan Africa.
TAHMO signed MoU with RCMRD in March 2017.
Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory
https://school2school.net/
Open Data Partnership
Beneficiaries:
• Universities
• schools
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Collaborations - TAHMO
Installation of Automatic weather stations (AWS) in RCMRD & partners. This
will improve the weather information value chain, bridge resilience to effects of
climate change.
Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory
https://school2school.net/
AWS – RCMRDAWS – Ardhi University
Weather Information Value Chain
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RCMRD Space Challenge 2017
Goal: Equip students with skills in environmental degradation, climate
change and its drivers. Contribute to STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math , SDG’s.
Mode: Obtain reading from automatic weather stations (AWS) installed by TAHMO,
GLOBE. This will be annual in Kenya, Uganda (Akorion).
Partners: GLOBE, TAHMO, 4-H Kenya, KMD, KNATCOM, EsriVideo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v5WTv8J79M&t=1s
Nasokol Girls School (first)St. Scholastica Primary School (second)
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Collaborations - LandPKS
Data sets: climate,
soils, topography,
wind, crop productivity,
vegetation
Projects: Kenya:
Northern
Rangelands Trust
(NRT) , Vital signs,
Namibia: Rangeland
Health Assessment -,
Bush Encroachment
assessment and
biomass estimation
http://landpotential.org/landpks/app
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Collaboration with Akorion - Uganda
ICT to efficiently provide agro value chain services to farmers and
those who serve them.
Link: https://youtu.be/T72TFTSbl5A
Open Data Training & Partnership
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Collaboration with CODATA
CODATA AGRICULTURE TASK GROUP (ATG) Agriculture Data, Knowledge for Learning and Innovation Group
• Partners: CODATA, KALRO, JKUAT, CABI, RCMRD, KEFRI
• Coordinate efforts on agricultural research data - SDGs and Africa
Union 2063 agenda
• Platform: KAINet - improve agro value chain
• Webinar: 5 Dec 2017 (4 - 5 pm, GMT +3)
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RCMRD Open Data
RCMRD Open data: http://opendata.rcmrd.org/
Open Data & Partnership
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Lessons Learnt
Stakeholder mapping
Collaboration and learning
Co-development – capacity building, products, tools
Data journalism – open data
Monitoring and evaluation
Impact – success stories
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Way forward
Partnerships – MoU, data sharing
Public Private Partnerships (PPP)
Capacity building
Outreach
Link to SDG’s
Space Challenge e.g. RCMRD Space Challenge
Innovation workshops e.g. hackathons
Role of ICT 4 Agriculture e.g. apps, updates
Big data – Data cubes
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ThanksOur contacts
The Director General
Regional Centre for Mapping for
Resource Development(RCMRD)
P. O. Box 632-00618
www.rcmrd.org, [email protected],
The presenter
Dr. Kenneth Mubea