The 2022.Q3 release for DIAL’s flagship product is now live! We’ve added brand new features, fixed some bugs, and made technical improvements to the Catalog of Digital Solutions.
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Featured updates
Dialog/Commenting features have been improved. We want to make it easier for our community to interact, ask questions, and share best practices. The feature is now more streamlined so that when users make comments, admins are notified and conversations can continue. This feature will strongly contribute to the community building that we’re doing around the Catalog.
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Search Engine Optimization and tracking improvements to the Catalog have been added. This effort aims to make our website more visible and drive traffic to the platform. The Catalog is now more professionally presented in the search results with a clean description and image.
Inclusion of Commercial Tools - many users have indicated that it would be useful to view commercial tools through the lens of the SDG Digital Investment Framework. We are launching the addition of 40 commercial tools used in agriculture and will be testing their inclusion under the framework.
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Data Improvements
Category | Improvement | Description | |
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| 1 | Tags | Adding relevant tags | New tags (including those relevant for agriculture)have been added to the Catalog to make searching for relevant products and data easier. |
| 2 | Sectors | Updated | Sector lists have been updated |
| 3 | Countries | Updated | Countries list has been updated to remove erroneous ones and to be consistent with list of UN member countries. |
| 4 | Organizations | Improved organizations pages | The following organization pages were improved for more descriptive content: IFAS, FAO, AgriHub, IFPRI, Kean University Cybersecurity Center, USAID. R4D, Local Development Research Institute |
| 5 | Projects | Improved projects pages | The following project pages were improved for more descriptive content: 50x2030, Catalyzing data-driven solutions for smallholder farmer fertilizer uptake, Africa Data Observatory (Statistics.Africa), Food & Nutirition Early Warning Mechanism, Village Based Advisory: ZydiPlus |
| 6 | Products | Improved product pages | The following product pages were improved for more descriptive content: AfricaRISING Dataverse, Mazao Plus+, |
| 7 | Glossary | Migration | The OSC Hub Glossary & Definitions has been migrated to the Catalog’s wiki |
| 8 | Playbook | Author information | The author of playbooks is now displayed in the playbook. Previously, this information was being collected but not being displayed. |
| 9 | Commercial Ag Products Data | New addition | 40+ Commercial Ag tools have been added to the repository labeled as “commercial” |
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