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id: ch3-dask-platform
type: spine
title: "DASK: one digital gateway for island farmers on Kythera"
readingTime: 2
standalone: true
core: false
teaser: "Marketplace, agritourism, training and a knowledge base in one place, for farmers who found the existing tools too scattered to use."
voice: explorer
parent: ch3-greece
diagram: fig-dask-platform
recallQ: "What problem does DASK address on Kythera and Antikythera, and what does it combine?"
recallA: "Existing tools for e-commerce, training, advice and knowledge are fragmented, hard to use and not adapted to remote island farming. DASK combines a marketplace, agritourism experiences, training and a knowledge base in one farmer-friendly platform."
highlights:
  - "DASK = Digital Agricultural Skills and Knowledge, a Develop open-call project in the Greek pilot"
  - "Built by DASKALOS APPS with the Kytherian Foundation for Culture & Development and an environmental consultant"
  - "One platform instead of four: marketplace, agritourism experiences, training, knowledge base"
status: accepted
concept: dask-platform
conceptTitle: "DASK island farming platform"
parents: greece-pilot
lang: en
lens: greece
depth: standard
formalism: none
visuality: balanced
lengthBand: standard
genre: explainer
state: edited
carriers: prose|diagram
---

**DASK (Digital Agricultural Skills and Knowledge)** is one of the six projects funded through the PoliRural+ **Develop** open call, which supports place-based digital applications. It belongs to the [Central Greece pilot](#c/greece-pilot), but its territory is specific: the farming communities of the islands of **Kythera and Antikythera**.

## The problem it starts from

The project names a practical barrier. Tools for e-commerce, training, advisory services and knowledge support already exist, but on the islands they are **fragmented, hard to use and not adapted** to remote island farming or to the local actors of the agricultural knowledge and innovation system (AKIS). A farmer who has to learn four separate systems usually uses none of them.

## What it combines

DASK brings four functions into one platform:

- a **marketplace** for local products;
- **agritourism experiences** that visitors can find and book;
- **training opportunities** in digital and agricultural skills;
- a **knowledge base** for farmers and advisers.

The stated design goals are a platform that is farmer-friendly, accessible and locally grounded.

## Who builds it

The consortium is led by DASKALOS APPS, with the **Kytherian Foundation for Culture & Development (KIPA)** as the local anchor and an environmental consultancy (ENVCON). Develop projects ran a mid-term stage in spring 2026 and were due to submit final reports in July 2026. The sources available here do not yet describe final results.

DASK tests, at island scale, two things the Greek policy brief asks for: AKIS services that reach farmers digitally, and stronger links between agriculture and agritourism.

**Sources:**
- PoliRural+ website, pilot page "Greece – Central Greece", section Open calls (2026 text). [poliruralplus.eu](https://www.poliruralplus.eu/)
- D6.3 Comprehensive Report on Funded Activities and Impact Assessment (Develop call: DASK). [PDF](https://www.poliruralplus.eu/docs/437/D6.3_Comprehensive_report.pdf)
- D7.3 Policy Brief No. 1, Annex 3 "Advancing Smart Agri-Food and Agritourism in Central Greece". [PDF](https://www.poliruralplus.eu/docs/349/D7.3_Policy_Brief_No.1.pdf)