The topic of sharing and interoperability of data and information for agricultural research for development is being addressed in an e-consultation hosted by e-Agriculture from 4 to 15 April. “Building the CIARD Framework for Data and Information Sharing” is now live at http://www.e-agriculture.org/en/forums and will feed into an international Expert Consultation in Beijing from 20 to 23 June.

We encourage everybody to participate! Contributions to the e-consultation should ideally be provided in English, but French and Spanish will also be accepted and will be summarized in English.

Join the discussion on Monday 4 April, as we begin addressing the following questions:

• What are we sharing and what needs to be shared?
• What are the prospects for interoperability in the future?
• What are the emerging tools, standards and infrastructures?
• What actions should now be facilitated by the CIARD Task Forces?

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