Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Presentation is loading. Please wait.

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network AgroWeb CEE Development of AgroWeb.

Similar presentations


Presentation on theme: "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network AgroWeb CEE Development of AgroWeb."— Presentation transcript:

1 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network AgroWeb CEE Development of AgroWeb Network Thematic Knowledge Networks Michal Demes Information Management Specialist FAO

2 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network

3 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network Territorial portals supporting knowledge sharing and south-south cooperation in the Caucasus and Central Asia region and in South-East-Europe.

4 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network National portals in English with standard structure local language versions or links to local language portals. (e.g. Czech, Hungarian, Slovak and Polish

5 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network Sub-portals of different expert networks: Veterinary, Food and Nutrition, Fishery, Animal Genetics, Animal Welfare, Waste Management AgroWeb team provides technical support.

6 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network Key factors about stable, sustainable functionality of AgroWeb since 1998 Cooperators from completely different fields of expertise – IT/IM experts, librarians, educators - which helps better understanding and cooperation between participating persons, institutions and countries. Technical development proposals prepared by AW team, personal assistance for implementation provided upon need Open source software are used Communication platform – horizontal and vertical connections

7 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network AgroWeb (serves as “backbone”) A B C International projects involving one or more AW countries (e.g. V4, CAC) Thematic expert and knowledge networks Programme coordinators National programme coordinators National AW editors National portals National AW editors (future CMS) Pilots (IT/IM strategies)

8 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network System development Multidisciplinary team –AgroWeb Editors – Portal Managers –Programme coordinators National programme coordinators –Territorial coordinators Expert groups –Ad-hoc, according to actual needs –Supported by FAO SEUR Cumulated contact database and link manager page No tasks are outsourced, all are solved internally within AgroWeb Occasional trainings and capacity building activities are organized with support of FAO SEUR in cooperation with IAALD, V4 and other external partners

9 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network Issues in V4 region Adoption of EU policy in the new EU member countries. Lack of sustainable personal contacts and continuity  Permanent support at national level is problematic Sustainable utilization and follow-up of project results and initiatives is not enough effective Support for local AW portal managers and National coordinators in different expert fields should be strengthened Present priorities:  Develop cooperation with EU information managers and experts through thematic knowledge networks  Guarantee allocation of support and resources for capacity building from FAO, EU and national institutions  Identifying new areas for collaboration with other EU and V4 agriculture experts  Improve partnership within AgroWeb  Improve partnerships and cooperation with sub-networks and Thematic Knowledge Networks  Streamline the advisory services provided for farmers through AgroWeb national portals

10 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network Best practices in AW Hungary: implementation of RSS Slovakia: advanced national language version and farmer services

11 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network Recommendations for Strategic Partnership E-Farmer portal http://www.efarmer.sk/ ESCORENA NETWORK http://www.fao.org/world/Regional/REU/escorena/escorena_default_en.html FAO RELATED TEMATIC KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS http://www.fao.org/tknet/index_en.htm?lang=en


Download ppt "Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Regional and National Communication Systems – AgroWeb Network AgroWeb CEE Development of AgroWeb."

Similar presentations


Ads by Google