Technical Sections VII: Information Technology
INTRODUCTION
Information Systems
Advance the development and effective use of information and communication technologies in all areas of agriculture in order to increase its sustainability, quality of operations and produce, productivity and profitability of the businesses. Target those technologies to every link of the production chains, education, research and policy making.
Members:
Chair: Dr. Patrizia Busato
Dept. of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences, University of Turin, Italy read-more
TEL: +39 011 670.8623 E-mail: patrizia.busato@unito.it |
Vice Chair: Dr. Takashi Okayashu
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Secretary: Dr. Jiannong Xin
IFAS Office of Information Technology、University of Florida, PO Box 110495 Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
TEL: +1 352 846 3217 E-mail: xin@ufl.edu |
Member: Dr. Jagarlapudi Adinarayana
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Member: Dr. Jose Francisco Aguilar
Agricultural and Biosystems School, College of Engineering, University of Costa Rica read-more
TEL: +506 2511-643 E-mail: jose.aguilar@ucr.ac.cr |
Member: Prof. Leisa Armstrong
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Member: Prof. Pilar Barreiro
School of Agricultural, Food and Biosystems Engineering, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
TEL: E-mail: pilar.barreiro@upm.es |
Member: Prof. Miguel Castro Neto
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Member: Dr. Miklos Herndon
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Member: Prof. Amots Herzoni
Agricultural Research Organization/Volcani Center, Israel
TEL: E-mail: amots@volcani.agri.gov.il |
Member: Dr. Allan Leck Jensen
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Member: Prof. Arno Ruckelshausen
University of Applied Sciences Osnabrueck Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Albrechtstr. 30, 49076 Osnabrück... read-more
TEL: E-mail: ruckelshausen.os@t-online.de |
Member: Dr. Jersey Weres
Poznan University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Bioengineering, Institute of Agricultural Engineering,... read-more
TEL: +48 61 848 7158 E-mail: weres@up.poznan.pl |
Member: Dr. Ybin Ying
Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environment Sciences, Zhejiang University, No. 866, Yuhangtang Street, Xihu District,... read-more
TEL: +86 57188982885 E-mail: ybying@zju.edu.cn |
Honorary Chairs/Members:
Honorary Chairs: Prof. Yasushi Hashimoto
Science Council of Japan; IFAC-council, 6-4-2-701Chifunemachi, Matsuyama, Ehime, #790-0011, Japan
TEL: +81 899 41 4191 E-mail: yh840@peach.ocn.ne.jp |
Honorary Chairs: Prof. Axel Munack
FAL, Institute for Technology and Biosystems Engineering, Bundesallee 50, D-38116 Braunschweig, Germany
TEL: +49 531 5964201 E-mail: axel.munack@fal.de |
Honorary Chairs: Prof. Seishi Ninomiya
University of Tokyo, Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services (ISAS), Midori-cho 1-1-1, Nishi-tokyo, Tokyo 188... read-more
TEL: +81 42 463 1611 E-mail: snino@isas.a.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
Honorary Chairs: Prof. Antonio Mauro Saraiva
University of São Paulo, School of Engineering, Agricultural Automation Laboratory, Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, trav3... read-more
TEL: +55 11 3091 9088 E-mail: saraiva@usp.br |
Honorary Chairs: Prof. Nick Sigrimis
Agricultural University of Athens, Dept. Agricultural Engineering, Iera Odos 75, 118 55 Athens, Greece
TEL: +30 1 529 40 36 E-mail: n.sigrimis@computer.org |
Honorary Chairs: Prof. Fedro S. Zazueta
Agricultural and Biological Eng. Dept. University of Florida, P.O. Box 117345, Gainesville, FL 32611-7345
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Mission, Objectives, Scope and Activities
Mission:
The mission of Section VII is to advance the use of information and communication technologies to harness optimal farm management and food supply chain, achieving sustainable agriculture. The sustainability includes productivity, profitability, environmental harmonization, robustness against climatic change, food security, food safety, food quality and farm welfare. ICT should be utilized in almost all the fields in CIGR and interdisciplinary collaborations are particularly important in the Section VII activities.
Objectives:
Section VII aims to promote people to achieve the following targets through maximally utilizing most up-to-date ICT;
- Policy making of ICT-based sustainable agriculture and rural development for green economy
- Enhancement of e-education/training and communication tools to effectively transfer technologies to farmers and to solve the last one mile issue.
- Enhancement of data acquisitions and development and sharing with efficient tool supports
- Enhancement of data integration for agricultural big data based on interoperable data standardization
- Enhancement of data and model integrations for effective decision supports
- Enhancement of DSS development for farmers, extension staffs, policy makers and distributors
- Enhancement of R&D of basic technologies and tools adaptable to ICT applications in agriculture
Scope:
The scope of Section VII is broad covering:
- Policy
- ICT policies for sustainable rural development, ICT adoption in rural community, e-government, e-agribusiness based on green economy ,
- Data content development
- agricultural resources data banks, market information, weather information, soil information, technology information, digital library, intellectual property, big data cloud
- Privacy security and data quality
- Interoperable data exchange platform and cloud
- Applications
- decision support system, precision farming, sensors, knowledge management system, GAP support system, traceability system, e-learning/training system, extension service
- Maximum utilization of big data and IOT
- Technology
- data/text/Web mining, machine learning, cloud computing, social media/Web technologies, metadata, standards and cataloging, taxonomy, ontology and the semantic Web, information retrieval, open source tools, sensor network, sensors, Grid, human-computer interaction, mobile services, remote sensing, GIS, pattern recognition, image analysis, modeling, security
Activities:
To achieve the objectives, Section VII promotes the collaborations among related groups, providing opportunities to discuss and exchange information among them. The main activities of Section VII are to organize sessions and workshops collaborating with several organizations which have the similar aims in terms of the utilization of ICT in agriculture.
- Section VII co-organizes WCCA (World Congress of Computer in Agriculture) as a member of INFITA (International Network of Federations of Information Technology in Agriculture, http://www.infita.org/). A WCCA takes place annually synchronously with one of the international conferences organized by one of the INFITA members.
- Section VII organizes sessions and workshops on specific topics during the CIGR conferences
- Section VII co-organizes workshops and sessions in several related conferences and meetings
Events organized by Section VII
Title | Date | Event type | Location | Country |
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2019 EFITA-HAICTA-WCCA CONGRESS | Thu, 27/06/2019 to Sat, 29/06/2019 | Congress | Rodes |
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The 9th conference of the European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment (EFITA) | Mon, 24/06/2013 to Thu, 27/06/2013 | Conference | Turin |
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CIGR XVIIth World Congress | Sun, 13/06/2010 to Thu, 17/06/2010 | Congress | Québec City |
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