[open-development] Fwd: [open-government] Help to internationalize the Open Food Facts project + G-8 conference in Washington

Wed Feb 27 18:10:40 UTC 2013

Thank you very much Tim and Tariq. I will let you know if we get selected.

I just learned that OpenStreetMap France is also answering the G-8 call 
for ideas with a very interesting proposal to map fields and crops. It 
would be awesome to open the data for the whole food chain, from 
agriculture to food transformation, distribution and consumption.

Thanks,

Stéphane
http://openfoodfacts.org
> Thanks for Sharing Tim - I know the Bank's getting involved with this
> in DC. Stephane - this is great work -  if you get no other takers,
> I'd be happy to pitch it on your behalf. tk
>
> --
> Tariq Khokhar
> email  : tariq at khokhar.net
> skype  : tariq.khokhar
> twitter: @tkb
> web    : www.khokhar.net
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Tim Davies
> <tim at practicalparticipation.co.uk> wrote:
>> I though this might be of interest to the list. Note in particular the link
>> for ideas for an upcoming G8 conference on Open Data and Agriculture at the
>> end of April, with a focus on Africa.
>> https://sites.google.com/site/g8opendataconference/preces - Deadline is 28th
>> Feb for submissions of presentation ideas.
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Stéphane Gigandet <biz at joueb.com>
>> Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 3:13 PM
>> Subject: [open-government] Help to internationalize the Open Food Facts
>> project + G-8 conference in Washington
>> To: open-government at lists.okfn.org, open-sustainability at lists.okfn.org
>> Cc: beatrice.martini at okfn.org
>>
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I presented the Open Food Facts project at the Open Data Day event organized
>> by the French local group of OKFN in Paris.
>> We are creating a kind of "Wikipedia" for food products: a crowdsourced
>> database of food products from around the world with ingredients, nutrition
>> facts, labels etc. published under the Open Database Licence.
>>
>> We started in May 2011 and the project took off very quickly, with 300
>> contributors adding 5500 products. But so far we have not been very
>> successful at developing other languages than French (Spanish being the
>> exception). We have versions more or less translated in 10 languages, but
>> very few products. You can see the number of products for each language on
>> http://openfoodfacts.org
>>
>> We would be very interested to find people who could help us to develop the
>> project and make it known in other countries.
>> One thing that was suggested during Open Data Day is that the OKFN's network
>> could be of great help to find persons interested in the project from around
>> the world.
>>
>> We also have a very concrete short term need: the G-8 is organizing on April
>> 29th a conference on Open Data for Agriculture and Food Security. There is
>> an open call for ideas:
>> https://sites.google.com/site/g8opendataconference/preces
>> We will answer that call to try to present our project, but if we are
>> selected, we may not be able to fly from France to Washington. But we were
>> thinking that we may be able to find someone living close to Washington who
>> could present the project. And of course we would be more than happy to
>> return the favor and present some projects from abroad at conferences in
>> Paris or other conferences we go to elsewhere.
>>
>> By the way we have an "open draft" of our answer to the open call:
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IsRV4R3nJuF145H_6jGprMj5ZSTBWYz-Gt_-bO2P2jU/edit?usp=sharing
>> Any comments or suggestions welcome!
>>
>> At the Open Data Day event in Paris, it was also suggested that we could
>> start an OKFN working group related to food. Would some of you be interested
>> in starting and participating in such a working group?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Stéphane Gigandet
>> http://openfoodfacts.org
>>
>>
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