G-8 Open Data for Agriculture Conference Day 2 Wrap Up

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Title: G-8 Open Data for Agriculture Conference Day 2 Wrap Up

G-8 Open Data for Agriculture Conference Day 2 Wrap Up

The second and final day was packed with open data discussion featuring dynamic speakers who brought diverse expertise and key insights for the opportunities and challenges surrounding Open Ag Data.

Dr. Catherine Woteki announced the G-8 Open Data Action Plans, available on the conference website. Read the joint G-8 Press Statement.

Session content, web resources and other information is available on the Day 2 Storify Board.

Archived web-stream will be available later this week on the World Bank ICF events page. Day 1, April 29, 2013, is available to watch on demand here.

Other news and blog posts from the day:

USDA Blog: Open Agricultural Data at Your Fingertips (4/30/13)

Watch Secretary Vilsack discuss the New Agriculture, Food, and Rural Open Data Community (4/30/13):

USAID News: USAID Announces New Open Data and Technology Tools at the G-8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture (4/30/13)

USDA Blog: Using Data to Change the World One Goat at a Time (4/30/13)

USAID Blog: Who Stole My Cow? Open Data and Praedial Larceny (4/30/13)

Listen to USDA Radio Newsline coverage of the Conference:

DATA SHARING CONFERENCE ENDS WITH NEW COMMITMENTS
Conferees attending the Open Data Ag. Conference in Washington are heading back home with new commitments to make more agricultural data available and to make it more user friendly. (Gary Crawford and Dr. Catherine Woteki)
GCRAWFOR              00:00:58              ARS

ACTUALITY: G8 NATIONS COMMIT TO SHARING AG. DATA
USDA Chief Scientist Dr. Catherine Woteki, talking about the concluding announcement from the Open Ag. Data conference.
GCRAWFOR              00:00:33             ARS

ACTUALITY: U.S TO SHARE AG. DATA WITH THE WORLD
USDA Chief Scientist Dr. Catherine Woteki, saying that the U.S. made a major announcement at the now concluded conference on sharing agricultural data.
GCRAWFOR              00:00:25             ARS

USDA ANNOUNCES NEW EFFORT TO SHARE ITS AG. DATA
The U.S. is opening up it's vast files of agricultural data to the world. (Gary Crawford and Secy' Tom Vilsack)
GCRAWFOR              00:01:00             SEC

ACTUALITY: NEW AG. DATA SITE WILL SPUR INNOVATION
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack at the International Open Ag. Data conference in Washington, D.C.,talking about the addition of vast amounts of agricultural data to the data.gov website.
GCRAWFOR             00:00:26              SEC

ACTUALITY: INFORMATION WILL BE KEY TO AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack at the International Open Ag. Data conference in Washington, D.C., saying that shared information will be key to future economic growth for agriculture.
GCRAWFOR             00:00:33              SEC