ICT

Fedro Zazueta on INFITA, IAALD and ICTs in Africa

Fedro Zazueta with INFITA speaks about working toward a Pan-African Federation of ICT in Agriculture, in collaboration with IAALD and others, which would bring together professionals working in ICTs.

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New book: ICTs for agriculture and rural development

Our colleague Raj Saravanan has co-authored a new book 'Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture and Rural Development' with a wide range of chapters covering the e-agriculture world in India.

mFarmer Fund to bring information and advice to farmers in developing countries

The GSMA, the body that represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, has launched the 'mFarmer Initiative Fund' with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Here is where the story goes.

The mFarmer Initiative Fund is designed to:

ICT and Agriculture Sourcebook

The forthcoming World Bank 'Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture e-Sourcebook' is being designed as an e-publication to maximize its outreach, with the intent of maintaining it as a “living” updatable document following its release later in 2011.

The Sourcebook describes a wide variety of ICT innovations and discusses the potential they carry for stakeholders engaged in agricultural development.

Empowering the poor through sustainable technology solutions

In March 2011,Catholic relief Services organized its third ICT4D event (following conferences in Nairobi in March 2010 and Washington, DC, in September 2010).

The first part of the program was a series of presentations (all online!) that exemplfy the ways that ICTs are being used to reach poor people (including in agriculture).

Some of the presentations include:
  • Mobile Money Transactions and Automating Vouchers for Food Delivery

speakers at witfor 2007

<p>Justin Chisenga (FAO), Barnabas Kapange (SADC Plant Genetic Resources Centre), and Dionne Clarke-Harris (CARDI); speakers at the Agriculture Commission of WITFOR 2007 (www.witfor.org)</p>

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