Formed in 2013, since its inception the Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD) has grown in community strength to over 200 members, becoming one of the RDA’s most prominent Thematic Groups
IGAD is a domain-oriented group working on all issues related to global agriculture data. It represents stakeholders in managing data for agricultural research and innovation, including producing, aggregating and consuming data
Beyond this IGAD promotes good practices in research with regard data sharing policies, data management plans, and data interoperability, and it is a forum for sharing experience and providing visibility to research and work in agricultural data.
One of IGAD’s main roles is to serve as a platform that leads to the creation of domain-specific Working Groups. To date, five successful Working Groups (WGs) have been formed under IGAD, these are: Wheat Data Interoperability, Rice Data Interoperability, AgriSemantics, On-Farm Data Sharing and Capacity Development for Agricultural Data WGs. The groups play an active role at the RDA Plenaries.
The RDA holds its plenary meetings every six months at different locations around the world. Built around the RDA Working and Interest Group meetings the sessions are designed to consolidate the RDA’s work and that of its interest groups in building social and technological bridges towards open data sharing. IGAD’s role since its inception at the RDA Gothenburg has expanded with every successive Plenary. The outcomes of the Wheat Data Interoperability Group have proved to be a success and the challenge is now on to replicate those successes with other groups, e.g. the Rice Group.
IGAD has used the Plenary meetings as a place to reach out and forge new alliances with other groups, as well as creating new offshoot groups aimed at specific solutions. During Plenary sessions IGAD has hosted a wide array of speakers and discussions and it continues to work alongside major international initiatives among others.
RDA P13. April 2019 in Philadelphia (USA) Invitation and agenda, Insights
RDA P12. November 2018 in Gaborone (Botswana) Invitation and agenda, Insights
RDA P10. September 2017 in Montreal (Canada) Invitation and agenda, Insights
RDA P9. April 2017 in Barcelona (Spain) Invitation and agenda, highlights
RDA P8. September 2017 in Denver (USA) Highlights
RDA P7. March 2016 in Tokyo (Japan) Agenda, results, highlights
RDA P5. March 2015 in San Diego (USA) Agenda
RDA P4. September 2014 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Agenda
RDA P3. March 2014 in Dublin (Ireland)
RDA P2. September 2013 in Washington DC (USA)