IGAD is a domain-oriented group working on all issues related to global agriculture data. It represents stakeholders in managing data for agricultural research and innovation, including producing, aggregating and consuming data. Beyond this, IGAD promotes good practices in research with regard data sharing policies, data management plans, and data interoperability, and it is a forum for sharing experience and providing visibility to research and work in agricultural data.
The objectives of the IGAD are: to promote good practices in the research domain: data sharing policies, data management plan, data interoperability; to provide a platform for networking and cross-fertilization of research ideas in data management and interoperability; to solicit and promote interactions and projects among the major international institutions and groups worldwide which work on agricultural research and innovation; and to achieve data interoperability.
Since its creation in 2013, IGAD has used the RDA Plenary Meetings as a place to reach out and forge new alliances with other groups, as well as creating new offshoot groups aimed at specific solutions. During the plenary sessions, IGAD has hosted a wide array of speakers and discussions and it continues to work alongside major international initiatives among others.
