Seven reasons why Mexico is ready to become a global leader in ICT for agriculture initiatives
08/05/2017
The GSMA mAgri Programme forges partnerships between mobile operators, technology providers and agricultural organisations. Although it has enourmous potential, Mexico seems to have been left out by ICT for agriculture initiatives. This article presents seven reasons for which Mexican agriculture...
Open Innovation Challenge: Implementing a Sustainable ‘African Youth (especially women) Entrepreneurship Online Portal’
05/05/2017
The Youth for Africa and SDGs YAS! Portal is an online portal created by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to support the development and growth of youth entrepreneurship in Africa. The portal aims to help entrepreneurs by providing them advice on enterprise development, serve as an...
Six Ways Drones Are Revolutionizing Agriculture
05/05/2017
By 2050, there will be 9.6 billion people in the planet. Feeding the whole worldwide population will be a central challenge for the next generations. Farmers will have to think of ways to reduce the inputs, for example water and pesticides, while maintaining the outputs. Drones can be of great help...
UNESCO Chair in ICT4D session at WSIS Forum 2017
04/05/2017
The UNESCO Chair in ICT4D is convening a workshop on Friday the 16th of June at the 2017 WSIS Forum which will be held in Geneva. This workshop will coincide with the recent publication of a new book entitled Reclaiming Information and Communication Technologies for Development This workshop is held...06/ 06
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Information and Communication Technologies for Evaluation (ICT4Eval): Using Innovative Approaches to Development Evaluation International conference
Rome, Italy 06/06/2017
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Best Practice for Implementing Mobile Finance in Low-Income Communities
03/05/2017
The proliferation of mobile phones across the world has enabled financial institutions to take advantage and introduce services accessible through mobile handsets. A scoping study has explored the challenges of implementing mobile-finance in low-income communities and also evaluated secondary data...
Radio Monsoon aims to ensure safety reigns among fishermen in south India
03/05/2017
In India’s southern state of Kerala, because of overfishing and climate change, fish stocks are rapidly decreasing. In order to catch more fish, fishermen are forced to go out into the open sea with their small boats, risking life especially during the monsoon season. Radio Monsoon radio station...
AGRIS sets up a discussion group on Dgroups !
03/05/2017
The AGRIS team will like to inform the broader community that the AGRIS Network discussion group has been set up on Dgroups. This group will be operative as of 2 May 2017 at https://dgroups.org/fao/agris This is part of the efforts to dynamize and consolidate the AGRIS activities and networks. This...
Free Webinar : How much data is enough in Precision Agriculture?
02/05/2017
This announcement is reproduced as published on AIMS Dear Users AIMS team pleased to invite you to attend an upcoming webinar as part of the AIMS@Webinars series: HOW MUCH DATA IS ENOUGH IN PRECISION AGRICULTURE? DATE: Wednesday May 10th, 2017 TIME: at 15.00 CET / 16.00 CEST TARGET AUDIENCE: The...