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Open Data: a Key to Feeding 9 Billion People by 2050

September 18, 2015 Justice Wright, USDA Research, Education, and Economics mission area

NPR’s “The Takeaway” program recently examined the “The Biggest Challenges Facing America and the World.” The episode included an interview with USDA Chief Scientist and Undersecretary Catherine Woteki on the challenge of being able to feed a world population that is estimated to reach more than 9...

Food and Nutrition Technology

Using Open Data in Creative Ways to Solve Problems

May 28, 2015 Joyce Hunter, Acting CIO, Deputy CIO for Policy and Planning

Want to make better use of forest, park and trail datasets? Try a hackathon. A hackthon is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development and hardware development, including graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on...

Technology

One Year Later - USDA in the Brave New World of Open Data

February 04, 2015 Joyce Hunter, Deputy CIO, Policy and Planning, U.S. Department of Agriculture

It’s hard to believe that it has been a year since USDA embarked on its push to make its data available to you. As you know, open data is free, public data that can be used to: launch commercial and nonprofit ventures; conduct research; make data-driven decisions; and help solve complex problems. It...

Conservation Technology

Participants in Open Data Roundtables Guide USDA on Ways to Provide High Quality Data to Users

August 07, 2014 Joyce M. Hunter, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Policy and Planning

“Find out who your audience and users are, then figure out the best, easiest way to provide data to them.” Last week, the Obama Administration focused on a specific climate risk – the risk to the food supply – and the ways data could be used to help increase “food resilience.” The goal is to make...

Conservation Technology

Calling All Open Data Partners

July 22, 2014 Jaime Adams, Office of the Chief Scientist

This post is part of the Science Tuesday feature series on the USDA blog. Check back each week as we showcase stories and news from the USDA’s rich science and research portfolio. What data have you opened to the world lately? In a time of increased global challenges in food and agriculture, a...

Research and Science
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