institutional-mission-statements/oada-mission-statements

Quote / Position

“OADA will create a secure data ecosystem that enables data security, privacy and interoperability for the entire agriculture industry. OADA will achieve this through an open standards software effort to establish secure data exchange protocols.”

“Will operate with a farmer-focused approach through a central guiding principle that each farmer owns data generated or entered by the farmer, their employees or by machines performing activities on their farm.”

“Will not produce or sell commercial products, will not be a provider of cloud storage or services, will not be a political lobbying organization, and will not endorse or oppose products or services beyond providing software tests that can be used to validate OADA functional support.”

Context

Three principles statements from OADA that anchor the open-source interoperability standards layer:

1. Mission — secure data ecosystem, open standards
2. Farmer ownership — farmer owns data generated on their farm
3. Non-commercial / non-lobbying — explicitly distinct from vendor or lobbying positioning

Source

Open Ag Data Alliance. Principles. https://openag.io/principles/