Observatory of food sovereignty and nutritional education in the innovative management of public administrations

Abstract

Information and communication technologies, together with advances in information management, have had an impact on the strengthening of the technology-information-communication dimension of public administrations, causing profound transformations in their management, mainly in information governance. This approach requires data and information infrastructures with online services to manage the needs of both administrations and citizens. At the same time, the President of the Republic has encouraged the optimal use of information, knowledge and technologies in administrative decision-making, showing the State's recognition of this innovative form of management. This attitude is coherent with the orientation of the maximum direction of the country, of the need to build Observatories that support a better use of Science in food production. Given this threshold, the present research proposes to show some components of the Observatory of Food Sovereignty and Nutritional Education of Pinar del Río, Cuba, that contribute to the informational governance of public administrations as an innovative form of management for strengthening the application of science in food production. The study used a mixed research approach that systemically articulates qualitative, quantitative, theoretical and empirical methods. Its result makes available to administrators, researchers, producers and citizens, an innovative form of management that has a high strategic, operational and functional value. This Observatory through its different services allows a better use of science in the different programs prioritized for food production in the country.