Use cases update: April 2022

FarmStack use cases last year:

Ethiopia:
- FAO (outside DAAS project though)
- Example steward for fertiliser use case (not actual data sharing)
Global:
- UC Davis machine learning connector
- FarmOS connector
- Edenfarm connector with World Bank
India:
- Tara project:
  - FPO farmer connector
  - Soil grid connector
- E-mircha project:
  - Consent manager
- ON pilot:
  - Satsure connector

FarmStack use cases so far this year:

Ethiopia:
- None as of now but talk of setting up Steward with ATA and connectors with CIMMYT/ EIAR
Kenya:
- Steward with KALRO
- None for data sharing as of now
Global:
- In talks and nearly finalizing:
  - CIMMYT (Mexico)
  - Something in Mongolia
  - FarmOS managed connector
  - Cool Farm Tool connector
  - Regen mutual (maybe)
- In talks at very initial stage, not sure if it matures:
  - Rabobank
- May continue:
  - FAO
  - UC Davis
India:
- ON use case/ E-mircha/ TARA:
  - Connectors:
    - AgNext connector - sure
    - KDE connector - sure
    - Video connector - already there
    - KrishiTantra connector (maybe)
    - Satsure connector (maybe)
    - Kalgudi connector (maybe)
  - Consent management integration:
    - KDE app
    - AgNext app
    - Kalgudi app
    - Krishi Tantra app
  - Steward:
    - Department of Horticulture - Maybe
- In talk at initial stage:
  - National Informatics Center as Steward with testbed
    - Telangana State - Hyderabad (number and nature of connectors not finalised)
    - Karnataka State - Bangalore (number and nature of connectors not finalised)
- Pilots/ trials:
  - Data wallet in/ around Bangalore
  - Funding platform backend

R & D work:

Global
- Confidential compute with UC Davis (nothing concrete as of now)
Internal
- Change architecture of core of trusted connector with AWS ACM and similar services
- Fine grained usage policies