Bridging the Digital Divide Through Consumer Driven Agricultural FarmHub Data Sourcing by Kiringai Kamau (GODAN)

1. Bridging the Digital Divide Through Consumer
Driven Agricultural FarmHub Data Sourcing
Kiringai Kamau, GODAN Africa Lead
Inspire Hackathon Kampala 2020
2nd April, 2020, Makerere University, Kampala

2. Action Learning based Data Sourcing for youth and Women
 How does learning and community meet to drive research?
 Can data sourcing actions provide the necessary anchor for youth and women
engagement in driving agriculture?
 How does the wider agricultural ecosystem come in driving system wide
thinking in addressing SDG 2 ….(and more)
 Does nutrition drive agricultural engagement or should that be the other way
round?
 What is the role of agricultural value chains in addressing the data divide?

3. GODAN FarmHub Data Sourcing Perspective

4. How to make Farm/FoodHubs Work!

5. Critical Observations
 Agriculture should embrace satellite data to map resources for agriculture
including weather data capture for effective preparation
 Satellite data combined with production and consumer action-ground-truthing
is the critical challenge that all agriculture faces
 Academia, policy, development and community need private sector driven
investment to support open data initiatives
 Youth need points of convergence at the producer and consumer ends to
promote data driven innovations

6. www.godan.info or www.p4cda.net
kiringai.kamau@godan.info, kiringai@perfect.africa @kiringaik