CEA++2022 Panel - Toward Building a Global Food Network

How can we create a global food network? Attempts are being made worldwide to lead people to healthier eating habits. They are not always in the academic field but often on a small scale and privately, in hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and various organizations. They may be collecting and manually analyzing data such as recipes and food records. They are precious data, but in many cases, they are never made public. And in academia, dictionaries, corpora, and knowledge graphs are constructed manually at a high cost, but such knowledge is never shared, and another group continues to generate new knowledge. How can we reduce this wasteful work and allow data and knowledge to be shared and leveraged? There are several issues involved in sharing food data. First, food cultures differ from country to country and region to region. Food data produced in one area rarely works as in another. Food data, especially when linked to medical care, is likely to contain private information and must be anonymized when shared. Anonymizing data without losing its intrinsic value is complex, and knowledge sharing must be abandoned in many cases. In addition, food logging is burdensome. Eating takes place every day, multiple times a day. Recording every meal requires a tremendous amount of effort. However, the impact of a single meal on a person's body is minimal, and it is the long-term record that is important in guiding a person to good health. In this panel discussion, we invite Prof. Stavroula Mougiakakou, General Chair of MADiMa22, a workshop co-located with CEA++22, and Prof. Ramesh Jain, the keynote speaker of CEA++22, to discuss the issues raised above. The Moderator, Prof. Yoko Yamakata will make the panel discussion open to all, and participants from MADiMa22 and CEA++22 are also welcome to join the discussion.