GODAN is a global network that advocates for open data for agriculture and nutrition, aiming to improve food security and livelihoods for millions of farmers around the world. Digital Green and iShamba are innovative organizations that provide e-extension services to farmers, using digital solutions such as SMS, voice calls, chatbots, and smartphone applications. These services enable farmers to access timely and relevant information on crop management, weather, market prices, and more. Together, we are working to empower farmers with data and knowledge that can help them increase their productivity, profitability, and resilience. We believe that data is a powerful tool for transforming agriculture and achieving sustainable development goals. We are proud to be part of this collaboration and look forward to seeing the positive impact it will have on the farmers and communities in Murang'a county.
About us
GODAN supports the proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with the urgent challenge of ensuring world food security. It is a rapidly growing group, currently with over 800 partners from national governments, non-governmental, international and private sector organisations that have committed to a joint Statement of Purpose. Any organization that supports open access to agriculture and nutrition data can join GODAN. The initiative focuses on building high-level support among governments, policymakers, international organizations and business. GODAN promotes collaboration to harness the growing volume of data generated by new technologies to solve long-standing problems and to benefit farmers and the health of consumers. At the 2012 G-8 Summit, G-8 leaders committed to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, the next phase of a shared commitment to achieving global food security. In April 2013, the commitment to convene an international conference on Open Data for Agriculture was fulfilled when the G8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture took place. The GODAN initiative was a by-product of this conference and was announced at the Open Government Partnership Conference in October 2013. GODAN partners support the shared principles based on GODAN’s Statement of Purpose -Agricultural and nutritional data to be available, accessible, usable and unrestricted -Partners aim to build high level policy and private sector support for open data -Encourage collaboration and cooperation across existing agriculture, nutrition and open data activities and stakeholders to solve long-standing global problems
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https://www.godan.info
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- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Wallingford, Oxfordshire
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2013
- Specialties
- Open data, Agriculture, Nutrition, Partnerships, Food Security, Fair Data, Farming, Big Data, Agricultural Data, Smallholder Farmers, Open Access, Global Hunger, sdg, and sustainability
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Nosworthy Way
Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 8DE, GB
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Landgoed Leusderend 32
Leusden, 3832 RC, NL
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Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
Rome, 00153, IT