Introductions

Who are you?

What is your role?

Cooking with open data

Lucy Knight - lucy@datahatch.co.uk - jargonautical

Fiona Smith - fiona.smith@theodi.org - fiona_ph_smith

Aim

Increase understanding of the role that open

data can play at different points along the food
production chain (from farm to fork)

Outcomes
By the end of this session the participants will be able to:
1. Describe different data needs along the food production
chain
2. Identify examples of open data innovation within food
production
3. Generate new ideas for how open data could be applied
in the food production chain

Exercise

What is Open Data?

Option A
Open data is data that is data
anyone can access, use and
share.
- Open Data Institute
I

se,

Option B
Open means anyone can freely access, use
modify and share for any purpose (subject, at
most, to requirements that preserve provenance
and openness).
- Summary of Open Denition (v2.0)
Introduced August 2014

Option C
Open data is data that is published in an
open format, is machine readable and is
published under a license that allows for
free reuse.
- data.gov.uk
Accessed November 2014

Data is the raw material of the

new industrial revolution
- Francis Maude, UK
MP

About the Data

Accessible (standards, platforms, low-tech/hightech)

Relevant (high value data, data people can usesoftware developers, farmers, consumers, youth,
educational institutions)

Available (sustainable, consistent, updated)

From farm to fork

Exercise
Describe the
journey of a carrot
from farm to fork?

Food Production Chain

It can get more complicated...

Many data needs.

Step
Inputs
Production
Processing and
distribution
Marketing
Consumption

Data needs??

Many data needs.

Step
Inputs
Production
Processing and
distribution
Marketing
Consumption

Data needs

What can open data do

in the food production
chain?
1.
2.
3.

Enables more efficient and effective

decision making
Fosters innovation that everyone can
benefit from
Drives organisational and sector change
through transparency
(GODAN & ODI, 2015)

The availability of open data can catalyse value chains by

providing all the players with valuable information...ultimately
strengthening the food and nutrition security of smallholder
farmers
(CTA, 2015)

Open data can help UK farmers think big, to take risks and build
profitable businesses.
(Hon, Liz Truss, UK Environment Secretary)

Chain transparency through new technologies is one of the

biggest opportunities for a more sustainable food system
(Michael Pollan, Author of the Omnivore's Dilemma, cited in Documentary
Digital Foods)

Innovations in open data and food production

Inputs: Esoko and Weather AWhere

Production: E-Cow

Consumption: FoodTrade

Exercise
card game