Jordan: The National Agricultural Information System/Network (NAIS)

Learn about the National Agricultural Information System/Network (NAIS) of Jordan, an integrated, bilingual (Arabic/English) institutions-based web platform for information and knowledge sharing and exchange for agricultural research and development for the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA).

The National Agricultural Information System/Network (NAIS) of Jordan is an integrated, bilingual (Arabic/English) institutions-based web platform for information and knowledge sharing and exchange for agricultural research and development for the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA). It is aimed at capturing and disseminating information about MOA institutes, experts and researchers working in those institutes, publications issued by those researchers, completed or currently active projects, national plans on agricultural and agricultural research in Jordan, success stories resulting from research and development, good practices to be followed and applied, news and events, extension bulletins produced for farmers, laws and agreements as information services for stakeholders, and other modules. It is a knowledge sharing and collaboration platform for the agriculture sector.

NAIS was developed in partnership and collaboration with FAO within the framework of the Development of a National Agricultural Information System (NAIS) Project (TCP/JOR/3202), building on FAO tools and methodologies.

In the publications/documents module, NAIS has built documents repository and harvester based on AGRIS AP and the Open Archive protocol. The MOA stakeholders feed the NAIS web information management system with content which is managed automatically and is stored in the documents repository.

NAIS is a CIARD partner and the constituent institutions have registered their repositories with the CIARD RING. NAIS and associated institutions are recognized as CIARD partner institutions.

NAIS is playing a significant role in disseminating the information and knowledge of MOA at institutional level. It is also playing a major role at national and regional level and this achieves a vision of MOA. This role coincides with the CIARD vision "To make public domain agricultural research information and knowledge truly accessible to all."

NAIS has made progress in developing necessary institutional readiness and approaches to managing digital content, 'opening up' that content, and then communicating and disseminating it. MOA is very willing to continue achieving stepwise progress on this important task in collaboration with FAO. Work on licensing content is yet to be considered. The NAIS project enjoyed strong commitment from MOA and NCARE senior policy makers, and the management and project coordination team, all of which helped to achieve the success of the project.

NAIS has a very strong cadre of trained staff that is capable of managing and sustaining the system. As a result the project exceeded the human resources training targets, and within budget, reflecting a very successful financial resources management effort. The project has thus established a good model to be followed in the Near East region for a successful information system project in the agricultural sector.

The project has made some efforts to input information and extension products and research publications.

However, the project still needs to make significant efforts to input further available information and extension products and research innovation.

Contact information	n/a
News type	Inbrief
File link	http://www.ciard.net/sites/default/files/RNE%20(Jordan)%20v10.pdf
File link local	RNE-Jordanv10.pdf (PDF, 572 Kb)
Source of information	FAO
Subject(s)	AGRICULTURE , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID
Relation	http://nais-jordan.gov.jo/Pages/Index.aspx?CMSId=8
Geographical coverage	Jordan
News date	02/04/2013
Working language(s)	ENGLISH

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