Posts on the Topic "ICT and Agricultural processes"
Read the Digital Technologies in Agriculture and Rural Areas Report
25/06/2019
A new publication by FAO that maps the adoption and use of digital innovations and technologies in agriculture has been published. The full report can be downloaded in the following links The full status report in English, link http://www.fao.org/3/ca4985en/ca4985en.pdf, The briefing paper in six UN...
The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains
03/06/2019
The GSMA has announced GSMA Innovation Fund for eight grants of £220,000 each to support projects for 24 months duration. The GSMA Innovation Fund for Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains aims to scale digital solutions for the agricultural last mile and improve smallholders’ financial...
Call on digital innovations for agriculture in the Europe and Central Asia region
25/03/2019
FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia has launched a call on digital innovations for agriculture in that region. The call aims at collecting lessons learned and recommendations for the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) or digital innovations in the sectors of...
FAO’s regional expert consultation on knowledge sharing for agricultural innovations
14/09/2018
An expert FAO consultation was held in Hungary on the 10th to the 13th of September 2018 on knowledge sharing for agricultural innovations applicable for smallholder and family farmers in Europe and Central Asia. This comes after two major calls for FAO to support Agricultural Innovations Systems...
AgroPad: A real-time on location and chemical analysis of the soil or water using AI
11/09/2018
The IBM Research, Brazil announced the AgroPad loT prototype that is AI-powered technology that will help farmers’ health check soil and water. This technology comes at a time when farmers have to send their soil and water samples to a lab for environmental and other chemical analysis. This is often...04/ 10
2018
Digital for Development (D4D)
Belgium 04/10/2018
The Royal Museum for Central Africa will organise an award ceremony and an innovation fair on Thursday 4 October 2018.
The innovation fair will be a hotspot for networking and exchanging ideas on digital advances in research and startup activities. Visitors will have the opportunity to meet a range of exhibitors in the field of ‘Digital for Development’ and to listen to a number of lectures by (inter)national thematic experts. More information here
ADB launches the Coding for Employment Program
08/06/2018
Unleashing Africa's Next Generation of Digital Innovators The African Development Bank together with The Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft, and Facebook have launched the Coding for Employment Program during the African Innovation Summit in Kigali, Rwanda. The program will prepare the youth for...12/ 06
2018
13/ 06
2018
Cracking the Nut 18
Antigua, Guatemala 12/06/2018 – 13/06/2018
Cracking the Nut 18 : Promoting Agricultural Technology Adoption and Resilience
Cracking the Nut 18 conference focuses on encouraging the uptake of new technologies for agriculture and access to finance in a way that promotes resilience.
WSIS Forum 2018 provide a spotlight on how ICTs can help eradicate poverty and hunger
22/03/2018
The International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) headquarters was a busy location with more than 2,500 ICT experts from around the world arriving for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The theme of WSIS Forum 2018 is ‘Leveraging ICTs to Build Information and Knowledge Societies for...09/ 04
2018
The African Youth Agripreneur Forum
Côte d'Ivoire 09/04/2018
The 2018 African Youth Agripreneur Forum and AgriPitch Competition will be held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire on 9 – 13 April 2018 under the theme “Technologies and Innovations for Youth in Agribusiness”.
The Forum and the Competition will be co-hosted by the Government of Cote d’Ivoire and the African Development Bank. The events are expected to attract over 400 participants from across the continent, including: youth agripreneurs, agribusiness companies, investors, academia and development partners, among others