E-Agriculture

What is resilience and how can ICTs help resilience programmes or projects? (28 th november)

In the "Vision for the World Summit on Information Society beyond 2015", there is a specific paragprah on resilience.

This full vision statement can be seen on page 3 of the e-agriculture 10-year review report available on www.fao.org/3/a-i4605e.pdf

"e. Promote the use of ICTs to reinforce the resilience capacity of states, communities and individuals to mitigate and adapt to natural and manmade disasters, food chain challenges, socio-economic and other crises, conflicts and transboundary threats, diseases, and environmental damages."

Therefore, in the vision, ICTs' role is to reienforce resilience in very specific situations. To be able to address resilience, the technologies themselves need to be resilient and resistant to shocks and disasters.