[Chapter-delegates] Application received for Internet of Food Special Interest Group

Tue Aug 11 07:00:30 PDT 2015

++1 @ Glenn
It's right that "The  FOOD  SIG  overlaps with the  INTERNET OF  THINGS
 SIG".
There is also a similar project in Cameroon like the one in India.

/Janvier Ngnoulaye
Cameroon Chapter

2015-08-11 14:30 GMT+01:00 Glenn McKnight <mcknight.glenn at gmail.com>:

> The  FOOD  SIG  overlaps with the  INTERNET OF  THINGS  SIG   in the
> application of   Precision  Agriculture.   When you add the use of Drones
> for   specific  pest eradication  etc   you can see how the two can
> compliment each other
> As to Joly's  comment about Code for  All  conference.  The  Jamaican
> group spoke about an open source  app  called  Harvest API, it's  an open
> source project  but no  details are on the site.  In the  Jamaican example
> the  funding is coming from the Canadian government  IDRC   and the  idea
> is  to provide  Open Data  to the  farmers and their markets to encourage
> the free flow of  information  so that the farmers don't  bring  too many
> products to  market.    This  has been done  in many Mobile  Applications
> in Africa.  One of the more interesting projects I saw  is  the Potato
> Institute of India  which shares  information about the Potato Blight.
> This  is the same blight  that  caused the Irish Potato famine in 1849 ( My
> relatives  left  Ireland as a result of the  famine) This  group  shares
> information  about the  pin point  locations of the blight and broadcasts
> to all the adjacent farmers to curtain it's spread.
>
> G
>
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> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Just video'd Matthew McNaughton of Jamaica talking about data driven
>> small farm agriculture at Code for All
>>
>> https://livestream.com/internetsociety/codeforall/videos/94581284 - fwd
>> to 41:35
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 7:00 AM, ALAIN AINA <aalain at trstech.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> …and make it cheap, deployable  and with innovative power solutions…
>>>
>>> —Alain
>>>
>>> On Aug 11, 2015, at 10:42 AM, Mouhamet Diop <mouhamet at next.sn> wrote:
>>>
>>> Second +
>>>
>>> This is one of the biggest challenge we are facing in underdevelopped
>>> countries. Fight against poverty alleviation by enhancing Agriculture and
>>> making good use of Internet to help improve and get more revenue.
>>> And what Vint is addressing is how to protect agriculture against plant
>>> diseases by anticipation. Add Satellite technologies that are used to do
>>> water drain calculation and harvest anticipation.
>>>
>>> Mouhamet Diop
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015-08-11 10:31 GMT+00:00 Vint Cerf <vint at google.com>:
>>>
>>>> The Internet of Food SIG might also address the problem of plant
>>>> diseases by exploring databases of healthy and diseased plant images that
>>>> could be used to help farmers diagnose crop problems (take photo with
>>>> mobile, search for match in the database, connect with experts to redress
>>>> the problem)...
>>>>
>>>> vint cerf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Joyce Dogniez <dogniez at isoc.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear Chapter Leaders,
>>>>>
>>>>> As an immediate follow up to my previous message about re-instating
>>>>> the SIGs, please find attached the application of the Internet of Food
>>>>> Special Interest Group.
>>>>> Your initial feedback was very positive on the concept and the issue
>>>>> related to Internet of Food, but you all felt that this would be better
>>>>> organised in a Special interest Group.
>>>>>
>>>>> To close the process the group has re-applied as a Special Interest
>>>>> Group and I wanted you to see the full SIG application as well. Please
>>>>> provide any additional feedback latest by 18th of August.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot
>>>>> Joyce
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