{"id":1823,"date":"2021-07-26T13:28:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T13:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalgreen.org\/catalyzing-the-data-sharing-ecosystem-introducing-farmstack\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T06:26:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T06:26:52","slug":"catalyzing-the-data-sharing-ecosystem-introducing-farmstack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalgreen.org\/catalyzing-the-data-sharing-ecosystem-introducing-farmstack\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalyzing the Data Sharing Ecosystem – Introducing FarmStack"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the past fifteen years Digital Green has been collaborating with government extension agencies to digitally transform their services for smallholder farmers. Through our extension video approach we\u2019ve reached over 2.3 million farmers and over 46,000 government extension workers. Along the way our work has generated a lot of data, and we\u2019ve always used that data to improve our work, help our farmers, and expand our business. A few years back, we started to ask ourselves some key questions — How do we get the data that\u2019s helping us back into the hands of farmers and organizations so it can help them too? How many other organizations like ours are holding data with untapped potential? And finally, how can we catalyze a data sharing ecosystem to put the potential of that data to work for farmers? This thought led us to understand that the way forward was to develop a decentralized data sharing protocol to foster coordination across the ag ecosystem while protecting privacy, security, and control over how data is used. We call this protocol FarmStack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

FarmStack is an open-source protocol which powers the secure transfer of data.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today we\u2019re announcing the release of FarmStack, an open-source protocol which powers the secure transfer of data. FarmStack enables secure and controlled exchange of data which can inform tailored solutions for farmers, greatly reduce costs for organizations, and expand the reach of existing tools. When organizations want to unlock new services and solutions by sharing and combining data they need to be confident that personal identifiable data, proprietary information, or other sensitivities are not exposed or used inappropriately. When farmers give consent to use their data, they want to be confident that it will be used only for the purposes they have given permission for and not shared with other parties without their knowledge. FarmStack enables these solutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n