Posts on the Topic "extensionists"
09/ 07
2018
ITU Workshop on Multimedia Applications and the Future of Digital Society
Ljubljana, Slovenia 09/07/2018
The International Telecommunication Union is organizing the ITU Workshop on "Multimedia applications and the future of digital society", which will take place on 9 July 2018 at the Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre, Dunajska cesta 18, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Moving Europe towards full precision agriculture
06/07/2018
Reflections on the ICT-AGRI 2: ICTs and robotics for sustainable agriculture The use of new technologies in Europe has grown in the last decade, and this also true within agriculture. In fact, there is renewed expectation towards digitizing agriculture and food value chains. Can robotics adoption in...
Digital innovations designed to tackle the Fall Armyworm
04/07/2018
The finalists of the Fall Armyworm Tech Prize In the beginning of the year we posed the question, Can ICTs be used to fight pest’s outbreaks? Such as the Fall Armyworm? At that time the two initiatives by Farm Radio Trust and CABIs Pest Risk Information Service) PRISE stood out. Recently, we just...
#WSISPrizes 2019 Call for Submissions open
03/07/2018
The WSIS Process has just announced the opening of submissions for the #WSISPrizes2019. All stake holders are invited to submit #WSIS related projects during the period 2 July to 30th of November 2018. WSIS prizes are part of the annual World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum which is a...
eLearning Africa: Could ICTs be the Key to Ending Hunger in Africa?
03/07/2018
Education and technology can play an important role in ending hunger and malnutrition in Africa once and for all. That is the view of leading experts in communications technology and food security, who will be attending a special session on malnutrition at this year’s eLearning Africa conference...03/ 07
2018
How to collect data using a mobile data collection tool
03/07/2018
This webinar is intended to explain ( Wednesday, 4th July 2018, 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM GMT)
Eyes in the Sky: How Drones and Satellites can transform African Agriculture?*
26/06/2018
African agriculture is faced by many challenges and yet technology – especially satellite and drone-assisted mapping technologies are poised to improve decision making for farmers and governments. However, since most farmers in Africa are smallholder farmers and mostly poor, what business models can...
FAO and Pennsylvania State University launch innovative app to fight fast-spreading pest
25/06/2018
News Release as published on FAO Website 25 June 2018, Rome - The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization and Pennsylvania State University joined forces to develop and launch an innovative, talking app - Nuru - to help African farmers recognize Fall Armyworm, a new and fast-spreading crop...24/ 06
2018
27/ 06
2018
14th International Conference on Precision Agriculture
Montreal, Canada 24/06/2018 – 27/06/2018
The 14th International Conference on Precision Agriculture is being held in Montreal, QC Canada and is organised by the International Society of Precision Agriculture (ISPA) which is a non-profit professional scientific organization.
