Only connect? Emerging ICT options and opportunities for farmers
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Wrap up presentation by Chris Addison (euforic) at the CTA Session at the World Conference on Agricultural Information and IT - Atsugi, August 2008
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The environmentLow cost
PCs
Mobile Phones
Smart Phones
FreeHostingServersSoftware
Web2
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App
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Pow
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Sto
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Loca
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ess Policy
Business
UsersWifi, satellite
Africa: Connect Africa
Mobile unit delivering services
Zinc air cells
Satelite network
Pub
lic p
ay p
hone
Farmers adopt their own approaches
Service operator feedback/ Assesment
Demand to determine cell market
Business services marketing, e-govt
Technology Intervention Approach
Caribbean:
RADIO TV PHONE Agritalk Mobile and VOIPFacility community knowledge network
16 islands
Farmers Calls 5$/mth SMS free
DeRegulation to allow VOIP use
Technology Intervention Approach
Internet access 20$ mth
Computer Internet Mobile
VOIPP
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OIP
Pacific: ICT options for agriculture
HF RadioBatteries solar panels
Video and TVAudio tapes In
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HF
Rad
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Info
Sat
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Training to staff who left
Information analysis Social and cultural concerns
Technology Intervention Approach
Radio broadcasting
Mobile phones
Info disseminated to be basedon identified needs language
Information infrastructureAccess and costs
Need for content
Needs based (language,relevance, media,match
Knowledge sharing(culture, language)
Policy regulationLegislation
Risk management
Sustainability
Constraints
ICT Literacy
Participation
Role of public private partnerships
Collective management
Lobbying and advocacy
Policy and regulation
Approach
People before technologyListen to farmers
Community leadership
Ownership
Representation
0.6% rise in GDP if increase
Addressing Social isolation
Benefits
Farming knowledge
Access to resources
Transport phones save fuel Access to markets
