Content is taken from a use case on the Digital Impact Exchange
It is set in the agricultural sector and links buyers and farmers to ease the access of information, products
Discussion
Q by Margus: What is the value for central government? This kind of platform is similar to a procurement platform. The Ministry of Agriculture could also be the beneficiary of such a use case. Is it planned to broaden the scope and include other procurement areas?
A by Sainabou: The platform is supposed to include information of weather forecasts, pesticide use, etc.
In reality market linkage is often bundled with other services, e.g. rural advisory and financial services for farmers. It can be understood as a gateway use case.
Margus: It would be valuable to broaden it to a more general procurement platform.
Taylor: Market linkage and a procurement platform (similar to the UK platform) should be considered as two separate projects.
Sarah: The challenges in procurement differ across sectors. Market linkage is one of the important topics within digital agriculture. Proposes to take this up again and include Wes on the conversation.
Margus: Procurement use case would be practical and is a request from many countries, the need is there. Transparent procurement and good governance are connected. Proposes to include a public procurement use case that is cross sectoral
Meelis: Supports Margus idea, would advise to start with a small scale procurement platform, focused on one sector.
Next meeting:
Discuss the idea of a procurement platform use case
Discussion on use case steps:
Margus: user profile account might not be necessary if the data can be pulled during the registration process with digiID
For following use cases a disclaimer should be included that data for login can be pulled and linked with national login schemes