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SAVE THE DATE: VIRTUAL CONVENTION 2020
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Explore
the event theme and
topics
APPLY
NOW: INSPIRE CHALLENGE
2020
Up to
one million USD in
research grants for
innovative big data
projects
EVENTS
Attend
upcoming webinars and
particpate in our
COVID-19 digital forum
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2020
BIG DATA
Convention
19-23
OCTOBER 2020
ONLINE & GLOBAL
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2020
has presented the BIG
DATA Platform with a
unique opportunity to
“walk the talk” on
agile, adaptive,
digitally-enabled
collective action. We
have transitioned our
annual convention to be
an inclusive,
accessible and fully
online event.
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The
event theme, Digital
Dynamism for Adaptive
Food Systems,
will examine food system
resilience and highlight
how digital tools and
technologies can help us
sense, respond and
(re)build better systems
in times of global food
security crises.
In response to the
COVID-19 global
pandemic, CGIAR is
pivoting much of its
2020 plan towards
response, recovery, and
long-term resiliency of
global food challenges.
BIG DATA is supporting
that effort, serving a
cross-cutting, big-data
enabling, and
partnership role for our
global organization. Our
annual convention brings
together thought leaders
and change-makers in the
digital technology and
agriculture world to
catalyze new
partnerships for impact.
This convention will be
the first One
CGIAR hosted event,
leveraging inclusive
inputs from each of the
global Centers offering
a glimpse of how they
are employing
digitally-enabled,
dynamic methods to
combat global food
security challenges
flowing from current
crises.
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DIGITAL
DYNAMISM FOR ADAPTIVE
FOOD SYSTEMS
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Digital
tools and technologies are
effective when they are
designed with
adaptability,
interoperability, and
precision in mind. The BIG
DATA Platform will explore
not only how technologies
can build resilient food
systems, but how
stakeholders can build
technologies that respond
and adapt to changing
challenges.
“Digital dynamism” refers
to the new food
system-wide capabilities
that can be built in the
context of rapidly
digitizing economies and
societies worldwide,
leveraging their speed,
adaptability, ease of
connection across actors
and domains, the potential
precision of resulting
tools and practices, and
new avenues for reaching
scale.
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The
event will examine what it
takes to build long-term
resilient food systems
that leverage
collaboration between
CGIAR Centers, global
agripreneur networks, food
companies, crisis relief
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Food security in the times of crisis
Measuring and
building
resilience: To
build a resilient
food system with
the agility to
react to shocks as
they happen, we
need to identify
and measure the
weak links in our
global framework
that cause crises.
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Inclusive digital transformation
On (Re)building
inclusive value
chains that
rebalance local
and global, and
effective
management of
gender, and other,
exclusion in
digital food
systems.
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Natural and digital ecosystems
Specifically
examining the
interaction
between humans,
natural
ecosystems, and
animal science.
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Agile digital technologies
Examining the
promise of
transformative
digital
innovations and
how to target them
towards response,
recovery, and
resilience related
to food security
challenges.
Considering, also,
the role of
analytic
frameworks and big
data computation
in building these
adaptive value
chains.
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The Inspire
Challenge is CGIAR’s
signature
digital
innovation process.
It leverages the global
footprint and deep food
security subject matter
expertise of CGIAR with
expert industry partners
to link digital
technologies to impact
in developing economies.
The Inspire Challenge
funds novel pilot
projects that democratize
data-driven insights
and which have practical
applications in
agriculture and food
security in
real-time, helping
people–especially
smallholder farmers and
producers–to sustainably
adapt to a changing
climate and to lead
happier and healthier
lives.
Through
this innovation
initiative, the BIG DATA
Platform continues to
challenge research
organizations to partner
with industry in order
to
leverage public
good data—especially
CGIAR data—to solve
intractable challenges
at scale.
Now in its fourth year,
the Inspire Challenge
portfolio includes
14 groundbreaking big
data projects that
run the gamut of CGIAR
expertise.
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IMPORTANT
DATES
Partner
Search:
OPEN NOW
Inspire Challenge launch: OPEN
NOW
Partner Search closes: 1
August
Inspire Challenge closes:
15 August
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INNOVATION
& CRISIS
RESPONSE
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The
2020 Inspire Challenge
will incorporate new
adaptations in response
to the crisis that
provide an opportunity
to test a key part of
our theory of change:
that data and digital
tools bring critical
capabilities for agile
adaptation in food
systems.
Two new categories for
2020, codesigned with
funders, are directly
relevant to the current
crisis:
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Sustaining Farm Income will
link sustainable
practices in food
systems directly
back to farm
income. It
provides a
mechanism for
digital
innovations for
(re)building
resilient,
inclusive
agricultural value
chains at a time
that will be
important for
COVID-19 recovery.
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Measuring
and Building
Resilience seeks
to source novel
ways of measuring
and
operationalizing
resilience in
interlinked food,
farming, and
ecological
systems. We expect
critical data and
digital
technologies to
include remote
sensing and earth
observation, high
frequency
monitoring data of
any type, and
structured
on-the-ground
research to guide
the development of
systems and
structures capable
of sustaining
multiple, even
concurring,
shocks.
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The two other Inspire Challenge
categories also hold great
potential for targeting
digital innovation towards
response, recovery, and
resilience related to the
food security challenges
unfolding from the COVID-19
crisis. |
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Sensing and Renewing Ecosystems
links ecosystem
services to
long-term
resilience of food
systems (which
could include, for
example, managing
future risk of
zoonotic disease).
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Revealing Food Systems sources
and implements
novel,
high-frequency
methods for
tracing and
understanding food
flows—an important
capability for
monitoring and
predicting
emergent food
security shocks
before they become
acute.
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As a result, the 2020 Inspire Challenge
startup grant evaluation
will include specific
COVID-19 response, recovery,
and resilience metrics added
to the judging rubric.
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INSPIRE
APPLICATION &
JUDGING PROCESS
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The
Inspire Challenge is a
unique opportunity for
research organizations to
partner with industry to
leverage CGIAR public good
data.
Each Inspire
proposal must be a
collaboration between a
CGIAR person or team and
an external partner.
After
submitting your
profile via the simple partnership
matching form,
you will periodically
receive the profiles of
potential partners who
match with your profile,
candidates can reach out
to each other to see if
there is mutual interest.
Applicants are responsible
for their own follow-ups.
If you already have a
partner and an idea you
are excited to put forward
for the 2020 Inspire
Challenge, this form is
not a necessary step in
the application process.
Similarly, if
you do not have an idea
yet but are interested in
partnering on a project to
participate in the
challenge, we encourage
you to fill out the form
anyway.
Your profile may be just
what another team is
looking for.
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The preliminary assessment will be
conducted by the Inspire
Challenge management team
and review each
application's responsiveness
to the key criteria of the
Challenge.
This pre-assessment focuses
on three key categories:
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Meaningful collaboration
– leveraging
partners’ capabilities
to create something more
than the sum of its
parts;
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Innovativeness of the proposal
– how new or
groundbreaking the idea
is; and
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Data mobilization of underused
or misused data
– especially
mobilizing CGIAR data
While the use of CGIAR data streams is
encouraged, all forms of
CGIAR + outside organization
collaboration demonstrating
leading-edge uses of data
are applicable for this
prize.
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INSPIRE
APPLICATION RESOURCES
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The
Inspire Challenge FAQs contain
more information about the
application process, judging,
awards, reporting, and
evaluation.
In 2019 we hosted an
online Q&A session to
directly interact with
potential applicants and
answer their questions. The
slides are also available on SlideShare.
The 2017 CGIAR
Inspire Challenge Brief covers
suitable environments for
digital innovation in
agriculture, best innovation
partners, high-potential entry
points in food systems, and
more.
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In
June 2020, the BIG DATA
Platform will host an
online discussion series
that will bring together
emergent research and
on-the-ground realities
together in conversation
in order to map out the
direct impacts of the
COVID-19 pandemic across
food value chains and
glean data-driven
recommendations and
solutions.
We
continue to review
discussion proposals
on a rolling basis.
Submit now to join the
conversation!
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The
Breeding Program
Assessment Tool (BPAT)
generated a set of
recommendations for CGIAR
breeding programs, one of
which is the use of the
Target Population of
Environments (TPE)
approach.
But what are TPEs? What
are they useful for? How
can a breeding program
develop and use them? In
this webinar, organized by
the Crop
Modeling Community of
Practice, these and
more questions will be
addressed.
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This
webinar is the first in
the Data-Driven Agronomy
Community of Practice’s
series: Ingredients for
scaling.
The session will focus on
why we should move from
scaling as “more” to a
more meaningful way of
scaling that integrates
sustainability, systems
change and responsible
scaling and present an
example of meaningful
scaling.
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