Telangana government in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced Data in Climate Resilient Agriculture (DiCRA), the latest addition to the Digital Public Goods Registry.
- Powered by Artificial Intelligence, the platform is geared towards strengthening food systems and food security.
- The impact of climate change on agriculture is multifold, affecting crop yield, nutritional quality and livestock productivity. Using remote sensing and pattern detection algorithms, DiCRA is able to identify farms that are resilient to climate change and those that are highly vulnerable.
- The Food Systems Innovation platform for Telangana is envisioned as a Digital Public Good that will strategically feed into data-driven decision making in the state.
- The platform will have the capability to visualize and analyze high resolution geospatial data (both vector as well as raster layers).
- The digital platform will curate, integrate and visualise such critical datasets and assets to answer the basic question of – What is growing where? How much is there and the spatial and temporal changes within the state across various indicators relevant to Agriculture and Food Systems.
What are Digital Public Goods (DPGs)?
- Digital Public Goods (DPGs) are “open source software, open data, open AI models, open standards and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable laws and best practices, do no harm and help attain the SDGs.
- One example of a DPG is DIVOC, a programme that has been customized by governments to generate over 1 billion secure and verifiable vaccination certificates in India, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Jamaica and Indonesia.
- DPGs are anchored in the idea of “openness” and open-source, i.e. each problem has to be solved only once. The solution is made freely and widely available to anyone who wishes to use it, modify it or built upon it.
- Aadhar, CoWin, UPI and Diksha are some of the digital public goods (open source) in India.
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