GODAN Action Online Course on Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition

This repository is used to publish the content of the online course on GODAN Action Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition. Publicly available version is available on Gitbook. The content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

The GODAN Action network developed a free MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Open Data Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition. The course was delivered five times from November 2017 to November 2018. 

‌This e-learning course is the result of a collaboration between GODAN Action partners, including Wageningen Environmental Research, AgroKnow, AidData, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), the Land Portal, the Open Data Institute (ODI) and the Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA).

The course was designed to reach and train a higher number of participants, from a wide range of countries, who can use the online resources to study at a time and location convenient for them.

‌It aims to strengthen the capacity of data producers and data consumers to manage and use open data in agriculture and nutrition. One of the main learning objectives is for the course to be used widely within agricultural and nutrition knowledge networks, in different institutions. The course also aims to raise awareness of different types of data formats and uses, and to highlight how important it is for data to be reliable, accessible and transparent.