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Rizwan Farook

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ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF AGRICULTURE (DEVELOPMENT)
Head of ICT Division
NATIONAL AGRICULTURE INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION CENTRE
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Gannoruwa, Peradeniya 20400, Sri Lanka 

 

Key Responsibilities

 Implementing Sri Lanka E-agriculture Strategy in Department of Agriculture 
 Responsible for developing e-solutions supporting precision & climate agriculture 
 ICT4 Agriculture Development 
 Representing the Department of Agriculture in developing National Spatial Data Infrastructure 
 Developing the National Agriculture Advisory System 
 Development of a drone based aerial agricultural crop monitoring & surveying 
 Representative of the Department of Agriculture as Assistant Chief Innovation Officer in ICT Agency of Sri Lanka

What are your domain(s) of expertise?

ICT for Agriculture development

What is your relationship with agricultural information management standards, tools and services?

Research information management system

Country

Sri Lanka

Organization

Department of Agriculture

Role in the organization

Assistant Director

Areas of interest

  • open access
  • open knowledge
  • open science
  • measurement
  • management structure
  • communication
  • learning resources
  • training resources
  • big data
  • open data
  • research data
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  • controlled vocabulary
  • knowledge management system
  • multilingual vocabulary
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  • aggregator
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  • service provider
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