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Digital Agriculture: A Standards Snapshot

ITU/FAO Focus Group on AI and IoT for Digital Agriculture

The ITU/FAO Focus Group on AI and IoT for Digital Agriculture (FG-AI4A) explored how
emerging technologies could be leveraged for data collection and management, refine
modeling techniques with the increasing amount of agricultural and geospatial data, and
facilitate efficient communication for actions aimed at optimizing agricultural production
practices.

The Focus Group also examined essential concepts and mapped the current standardization
landscape for agriculture to underscore the existing gaps that need to be filled.

AI and IoT Playbook for Digital Agriculture: Structure of FG-AI4A

FG-AI4A organized its activities through six different Working Groups (WG) as shown in Figure 1.
The Focus Group was chaired by Mr Ramy Ahmed Fathy (Egyptian National Telecom. Regulatory
Authority (NTRA)) and Mr Sebastian Bosse (Fraunhofer HHI, Germany).

Figure 1: Working Groups of FG-AI4A

To effectively examine the diverse applications of emerging technologies in agriculture, Topic
Groups (TGs) were formed to contribute insights to the efforts of the Working Groups. Figure 2
illustrates the outputs of the Focus Group on AI for Agriculture (FG-AI4A) and their interlinkages.

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