[Cyverse.Nappn] Introduction and Announcement of RFPs for Nat'l Ag Producer Data Framework

[Ag Data Co-op]

Dear Colleagues:

We wanted to take an opportunity to introduce you to the National Agricultural Producer Data Cooperative (NAPDC<https://agdatacoop.org/>) and alert you to a funding opportunity. The NAPDC was launched in November 2021 through a USDA-NIFA funded project to bring together diverse national and regional stakeholders to develop a blueprint for a national data framework. This framework is intended to benefit agricultural producers first and foremost. Key to drafting the blueprint is garnering input from those active in the field such as yourself.

Initially, the NAPDC will focus effort in two areas: educational webinars and a competitive grants program. The webinars will focus on the needs of the community relative to a national distributed data framework and emerging technologies/methods to enable such a framework. The competitive grants program is intended to enable national, regional and/or domain-specific stakeholder groups to host meetings and encourage broad and diverse participation in blueprint development. These starting points are opportunities to be part of the initial, foundational conversations and contribute your voice to the conceptualization and eventual construction of a national framework. To date, a total of $500k has been appropriated for this project to support broad producer and stakeholder engagement. As additional funds are appropriated, we will need your help in advising the USDA on how to distribute these funds towards building a national framework.

We will host a launch webinar for the NAPDC from 1-2:30pm CST on Monday, January 24th, 2022 (registration open<https://www.agdatacoop.org/webinars>!) where we will introduce the project, website, planned activities, and discuss the request for proposals. We will provide information about how to sign up for our listserv; engage in webinars, either as a participant or presenter; and submit a proposal to convene a group of stakeholders in your region/domain or among clientele with whom you work.

We hope you will join us in this exciting opportunity to shape a data cooperative that puts the needs of agricultural producers first and foremost. Please forward this email as appropriate to interested parties in your network.

Sincerely,

The NAPDC Executive Board at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
                Jennifer Clarke
                Trenton Franz
                Liz Lorang
                Joe Luck
                Matt Spangler
                Laura Thompson
                Hongfeng Yu


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