Digital Tools for Diagnostic Networks Gary Kong Project Leader CRC Plant Biosecurity
Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity
1. What have we done? 2. Where to next?
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What have we done?
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Trifecta! Widespread support for the principles of RM and for what we had done.
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2. Where to next and why? LOOK + FIND + IDENTIFY Surveillance and Vigilance
Diagnostics
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Look + Find + IdentifyQueensland Primary Industries and Fisheries
What does the data look like?
Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheri
•Formal Surveillance •Surveys; high quality; specific
•Informal Surveillance •General Crop Protection; high quality; non-specific
•Casual Surveillance •Random; variable quality; biodiverse
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Who sees the most pests?
Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries
Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheri
Number pest observations
Plant Quarantine
State Labs
Consultants, Farmers, Citizens
Proportion of pest observations captured
Who collects the most data? Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity
And how much identification data is captured and shared?
Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries
Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheri
Very Little! WHY? Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity
Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheries
Barriers
Science
Policy
Queensland Primary Industries and Fisheri
Trickle out
•National Policy Framework lacking •Who, how, where, what?
•State boundaries divide jurisdictions •Ad Hoc approach to data collection and storage
•Lack of digital systems and processes •Software/hardware
•NO agreed data standards Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity
Look + Find + Identify
So what’s next? • Increase adoption of existing tools • Improve existing tools • Expand the toolset • Adapt tools to new situations • Create Policy relationships
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Portable RM
Smart Phone Apps
Cloud Workspace
Store
USB Microscope
Capture
Auto Reporting Traps
Phone Apps for recording pests on the fly
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Citizen Science
Interactive ID Guides
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Deliver tools to‌.. Pre-Border Border Post-Border
East Africa; Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, East Timor, PNG, Malaysia, Pacific
Ports of Entry
Regional Labs
CABI; ACIAR; DAFF;MAF NZ
NAQS; DAFF OSP
State PPOs and BAs
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If it’s not DIGITAL………. Then it’s INVISIBLE