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Capacity building for Food & Water Security Geospatial issues for science and policy makers

Capacity building for Food & Water Security Geospatial issues for science and policy makers. Tom Veldkamp. Asia geospatial forum 17-19 October 2011 Jakarta, Indonesia. Have we made improvements in the policy arena?.

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Capacity building for Food & Water Security Geospatial issues for science and policy makers

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  1. Capacity building for Food & Water Security Geospatial issues for science and policy makers Tom Veldkamp Asia geospatial forum 17-19 October 2011 Jakarta, Indonesia

  2. Have we made improvements in the policy arena? Sept 2010 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on world leaders to attend a summit in New York on to accelerate progress towards the Millennium Development Goals in 2015. How to measure progress?

  3. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  4. Progress of achieving Millennium Development Goals

  5. But what are exactly the units of evaluation? MDG 1 to 6 have humans (their well being) as Unit of analysis. Used data source: Census

  6. Census is collected and presented on administrative unit basis. Yielding typical geographical representations such country level maps http://devdata.worldbank.org/atlas-mdg/

  7. But: People do not live everywhere and adminstrative units are not uniform. Census data do not include refugees and landless

  8. What is environmental sustainability? Bad? Good?

  9. Deforestation: RS, Experts, Census Census data Visual comparison with JRC’s TREES hot spots ...

  10. Also in Europe there is a bias between different geospatial data sources Comparing Census data (EUROSTAT) and remote sensing data CORINE per NUTS2 region for the EU25

  11. There is a geographical scale gap between the target unit of the MDG (humans) and the chosen unit of impact evaluation. Therefore the MDG’s can be met by cleverly ‘using’ or ‘presenting’ statistical data. The UN is ignoring the spatial dimension of Sustainable development. We should work on providing this geospatial dimension What does this learn us?

  12. Background: ITC aims to make countries self-sufficient in using GEO-ICT Strategy: Becoming involved in national/international agenda’s on capacity building. Instrument: public-private partnerships: institutional strengthening rather than human resource development. Capacity development Connecting producers and consumers of knowledge in a global World

  13. The IT and GIS value pyramid Value creation Value addition Value capturing

  14. Geospatial value chains in Developing countries (the South) Governmental organization and knowledge organization < Map centric Info centric > Environmental maps NGO’s thematic map For example cell phone app’s Navigation systems We lack companies to effectively fill in the gaps!!

  15. Three steps towards entrepreneurship Advisory service for farm management Need actual meteo and soil geodata and agronomic knowledge and skills Sell a cell phone app. to farmers using cooperative network. Business is marketing and delivering expected quality and being a reliable partner 15

  16. Invention Innovation Visions/Images Consumer demand Innovation leading to business Invention Consumer demand Innovation Images

  17. Ownership (of components and/or final product) Hardware: the material invention (e.g. cell phone, GIS software, (geo)-data) Software: skills and knowledge to use and implement the invention Orgware: organizational and institutional conditions influencing development and functioning of innovation. For both product and people (laws, infrastructure etc) Entrepreneurship requires effectively combining these three ‘ware’ types. Inventions

  18. Organizing a successful and effective implementation of an invention Critical issues: • Access to consumer markets • Institutional space for new things (laws and regulations do not hamper implementation: maps as military sensitive info). • A formalized and recognized network of professionals Innovations

  19. Images can make of break a new invention. New inventions/markets require new mobilizing visions (GMO discussions) You not only sell a product but also an image (importance of marketing) Images can be managed and but do require participation of all potential stakeholders in order to prevent ‘propaganda’. The role of Images/visions

  20. When a product appeals to the general social norm this will facilitate marketing The value chain has to be identified and organized Marketed image should match with original image Consumer behavior does not equal citizen request Key components for buying are: motivation, opportunity and ability Mobilizing consumer demand

  21. Business oriented networks (KENGi) Government authorities Entrepreneurs Private sector develop entrepreneurship skills and activities and recognition KnowledgeInstitutes NGOs Key is communication and sharing data/info (crowd sourcing) and knowledge (expertise)

  22. Capacity building for Food & Water Security needs more direct involvement of relevant stakeholders We have to create an environment for co-learning and co-creation of knowledge Private and public sections need to be involved Policy relevance is currently more important than current scientific knowledge. (we can do more then recognised by policymakers) Capacity building efforts have to continue at all levels including public and private partners Conclusions

  23. The end Thank you

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