The Food Safety Intelligence Blog
Insights, resources and best practices on digital innovations for food risk prevention
Harvesting open ideas from great minds: Open Harvest 2016
The time has come again to open our home to the world. To invite good colleagues and friends, but to also welcome new people that we are meeting for the first time. To organise and host a special event, a [...]
Seven months of a re-vamped FAO AGRIS service: what’s next?
One of the major things that happened in Agroknow last year, was the introduction of a brand new service for supporting the data processing workflows of FAO’s AGRIS. Following a strategic partnership that was introduced in September 2014 by the [...]
“I do big data for the food & beverage industry” – OK, but for which problem?
I was reading through the 2013 report on “Formula for growth: Innovation, big data and analytics” that the US Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) and Deloitte Consulting L.L.P. produced. This is a very interesting report, since it outlines the opportunities big [...]
Food Safety Information Leaders Come Together
At the District of Columbia (D.C.) lies the capital of the United States of America, the beautiful Washington D.C. And it is there, at the World Bank Group headquarters, where a number of great minds will meet on October 14th, [...]
“It’s the variety, stupid”
Well, I should have suspected it. But it was good to see more than 40 experts from around the world highlighting and explaining it: the special thing about big data in agriculture is its extreme variety. This is what you [...]
Openness and e-infrastructures for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
On May 13th 2015, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the Unit of the European Commission responsible for e-infrastructures, organised a workshop on the way European e-infrastructures may support the activities of EFSA. The meeting followed up a series [...]
Big Data (all over) Europe: an opportunity ahead for food & agriculture
Is this the time for big data technologies to be streamlined in Europe? Are we going to see a wave of big data powered tools and applications in different application domains and industry sectors? This is the ambitious goal of [...]
Impressions from the Open Data Institute (ODI) 2014 Annual Summit
In Agro-Know, we are right in the middle of several interesting things that are happening in relation to open data and its impact for research institutions and businesses. We are trying to help research institutions understand better and implement open [...]
A global alliance for food safety: reflections on the GFSP 2014 conference
While writing this, I am on the plane for home and trying to adjust from the summer weather of Cape Town to the chilly weather of Athens. But most of all, I am trying to digest a wealth of ideas, [...]