DIASCA Virtual Learning Series - Session 2: From Mapping to Mandate
In the last session, we examined how industries may tend toward pre-competitive collaboration through a mix of incentives, shocks, and regulatory interventions. In this session, we examine how industries may arrive at real systems and approaches to foster and set their collaboration in motion more intentionally. This session shares practical, sequenced methods for helping competing actors recognize their shared interests and begin to build something together. Ecosystem mapping, group mediation, prototyping and co-design, and building governance from the ground up are key approaches examined, with learnings from Honduras, Kenya, Guatemala, and Peru.
How do we harness shared interests and turn them into action?
Date: Thursday, November 5th, 9:00-10:30 am ET / 15:00-16:30 CET / 17:00-18:30 EAT
We will examine approaches for helping stakeholders consolidate their shared interests across the value chain, turn these into action, and build shared services to advance those interests:
- semi-structured interviews tailored to a value chain or industry.
- Data ecosystem mapping: understanding the institutional linkages and incentives for data sharing within an industry.
- Group mediation: arriving at consensus around the need for shared services.
- Prototyping and co-design: iterative development of a shared service, building on the shared mandate for creating it.
This session brings together:
Jennifer Wiegel, PhD, Sub-Regional Manager for Central America, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT
Carolay Perea Ramírez, Research Associate, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Colombia
Kevin O. Onyango, Social Economist, Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT, Kenya
Steve Brewer, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln and co-author of "A Trust Framework for Digital Food Systems”
We'll close by examining cross-cutting themes and technical approaches for running such methods, with a preview of Session 3: architecting at the scale of food systems.
About the Learning Series:
The DIASCA Virtual Learning Series examines how the agri-food sector can build shared, pre-competitive infrastructure and services for more trustworthy supply chains. This can happen not only through government-led digital public infrastructure, but through a range of public, private, and public-private mechanisms that industries may leverage to realize this goal.
Each session opens with a central question to resolve, and each contributes to the next. The series moves from recognizing the triggers, incentives, or shocks that may move an industry to collaborate; to consolidating shared interests into a shared mandate for building solutions; architecting solutions at a sector level; building the governance that guides their evolution and growth; and finally applying it all so that shared infrastructures can make supply chains themselves more trustworthy at scale. Four threads run throughout: supply chain integrity, mediation and co-design, shared infrastructure, and governance.
The series includes 5 sessions. It is organized and facilitated by Brian King (Senior Manager for Technology Integration) & Federico Ceballos Sierra (Postdoctoral Fellow) from the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (CGIAR) and John Keogh (Professor of Practice) from McGill University Center for the Convergence of Health and Economics.
Disclaimer: Please note that the Sessions takes place in English only and will be recorded and transcribed. The recording will be published on the SASI YouTube channel and website and shared with the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (CGIAR) team.