2018 CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture Platform Convention

Bonus Hour is a time for you to tour the genetics lab, stretch your legs with a walk in Karura Forest, demo the GEMS database, demo aWhere tools, or play with the AgroFIMS Prototype [only available today].

Data-Driven Agricultural Innovation and The International Agroinformatics Alliance.
In a strategic partnership, the College of Food Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences has teamed up with the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute to create a novel data sharing and analysis platform called G.E.M.STM. This ever-expanding platform, once released to collaborators in mid-October, will enable public-private research collaborations for innovation in agricultural production and other domain areas. The platform allows data contributors to truly make their data interoperable, via structured ontologies and data cleaning modules, and allows them to share only those fields within their data that they choose to make available. The platform also enables all types of data analytics, with the goal of turning that data into actionable information.

Within this framework, communities that otherwise might not have taken shape are forming, such as the International Agroinformatics Alliance (IAA). The IAA currently includes members of international renown, such as the CG Big Data Platform, CIAT, DArT, Embrapa, PepsiCo, SRUC, The University of Adelaide, University of Stellenbosch, and others in consideration. The IAA operates with its own Governance, Data use agreements, and dedicated federated resources.