International Expert Consultation on the theme “Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing” | Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development

International Expert Consultation on the theme “Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing” Coherence in Information for Agricultural Research for Development: "This International Expert Consultation, which has been preceded by an electronic consultation on the e-agriculture platform (http://www.e-agriculture.org/en/forums/current-forum), will consider steps that need to be taken globally to build a framework for data and information sharing for agricultural research for development. Some suggestions include developing linked open data, open data repositories, registries of services and data sets, common vocabularies, standards etc. There may be additional activities needed among various ARD stakeholders and actors such as in advocacy, capacity development, collaboration etc. at various levels, communities, countries and regions to bring more rapid fruition to this important activity to improve agricultural research for development globally."