Technical assistance for NSO grantees

Improving commercial viability of satellite based services for farmers

Review of business viability of the Geodata for Agriculture and Water (G4AW) projects and recommendations on how to improve this.

Partners

Netherlands Space Office

Expertise

Product and service design
Digital innovation

Sectors

Food and agriculture

Markets

Bangladesh
Myanmar
Kenya
Ethiopia
Others

Timeline

2020 to 2021

Commercialising satellite data

Geodata for Agriculture and Water (G4AW) is a grant program of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs that is executed by the Netherlands Space Office (NSO). The program supports innovations that improve food security in Africa and Asia by providing satellite based information services to millions of smallholder farmers and other actors in the food production chain. Bopinc partners with NSO  in this project to provide Technical Assistance (TA) to the business owners in the G4AW projects to help them improve the commercial viability of their satellite based service innovations. 

Impact

Better business cases for developed products

Recommendations for NSO

On lessons learned on sustainable business models

Advice for (up to) 25 grantees

On improving financial viability of developed innovations

Pilot results of a satellite based warning system agains potato late blight

Duration: 3 minutes
Before we were contracted by NSO to perform a review of their G4AW portfolio, Bopinc was involved in a G4AW project. The video shows the lessons learned during one of the pilots during potato season in Bangladesh.
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Gerwin Jansen
Muntasir Saqib Khan
Timeline

Project milestones

Discover

Conduct study on existing projects

Define

Share lessons learned

Develop

Present results in webinar and promote opportunity of technical assistance.

Deliver

Deliver assistance to selected projects

Downloads

Resources

Blog on G4AW

What can we learn from digital innovation happening now?

The sweet spot for commercialization in G4AW partnerships

Bopinc gathered insights from G4AW partnerships to assess their commercialization readiness and identified their 5 main commercialization barriers.