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This replaces the “FDN visualization” drafted Dec 2021 which is here for reference.

Vision: Farmer groups have control / agency over their own data and leverage it to deliver value for their members; farmer groups have the capacity to drive the digitization effort themselves.

So what is DFN specifically? It has a few components:

  1. Technology product

    • Through participatory user research, product team defines product requirements and engineering team builds

    • Interface for capturing and viewing data (today, this is KDE)

      • Photos and voice notes as method of data entry; look back to some of the ideas we explored w NavanaTech

    • Coordination and communication between members (expect a lot of in-person meetings and Whatsapp at present; what if anything needs to be formalized, eg, decisions made by the farmer group BOD)

    • [Decentralized?] data storage

    • Tokens as an incentive and governance mechanism

    • Data model; if some structure is imposed, it could support interoperability and make the data more usable externally

    • Visibility and access to data collected from other sources (data wallet fits here?)

    • Interface to share data with value-add service providers storage (consent manager fits here?)

  2. “Go to market” or how do we drive adoption in the real world

    • Entry points; what is a value prop that drives farmer group adoption of the technology product?

    • How do farmer groups learn about DFN? Do we leverage SRLM partners as a channel to reach farmer groups? Or resource institutions? Or entities like NABARD and SFAC?

    • How do farmer groups on-board and see value from the technology product; what handholding support do we provide?

    • A data officer or on-ground resource embedded within farmer group

    •  Training and capacity building content on topics like data literacy; can look to the FPO videos we are producing (why join an FPO, how to do a business plan) as reference

    • Who are the entities that use the data generated by farmers? What are their pain points and how does DFN address these?

      • Do we build integrations with organizations who leverage data generated by farmers and is this done as part of FS? Vineet Singh

  3. Economic and governance model

    • When we say farmers “own” the data, what does this mean?

    • What is the legal entity that is building and maintaining the software? And what about the data?

      • Data Trust, Data Cooperative, DAO

    • What is the cost of delivering the DFN services and do farmer groups pay to access?

      1. consider a sliding subsidy scale; eg. 100% subsidy in Years 1 and 2 then dropping by 1/3 in subsequent years

    • How is this entity funded?

    • How are decisions made?

    • What role do product users / farmer groups play in terms of governance of this entity

      • In a Web3 model, tokens show up for funding and decisions making as well

Open things:

  • Where does policy stuff fit? Specifically, how does the data ownership model contemplated here relate to - in India - IDEA/Agristack and some future Data Protection legislation? What about Ethiopia and Kenya?

  • Does Farmstack have similar components? The details will obviously be different but might be helpful to breakdown along similar lines. Vineet Singh

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