Posts on the Topic "mobiles"
Four Key Findings: Smallholder Farmer Use of Mobile Phones for Agriculture
22/09/2020
ICTWorks published a guest article that summarizes the research findings on Smallholder Farmers Use of Mobile Phones for Agriculture. The research was done in Kenya and examined the use of ‘m-services’ by farmers. The study-examined factors affecting the likelihood of Kenyan farmers’ adoption of m...
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...
A spotlight on the FAO Digital Services Portfolio
11/06/2019
The FAO Digital Services Portfolio is a project that was started in November 2016 in Rulindo, Rwanda and Tambacounda, Senegal.The project included the development and distribution of 4 mobile applications to smallholder farmers. This project comes as a realisation that digital services are changing...
ICT Update 90 focuses on Women and Digitalization in Agriculture
12/03/2019
In sub-Saharan Africa and indeed in most of the developing world, women form a greater part of the agricultural labour force. There is potential of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to include women fully in the agricultural systems. The recent ICT Update 90 focuses on Women and...
e-Agriculture Case Study on E-KOKARI published
23/01/2019
You might be wondering, What is E-KOKARI? E-KOKARI is an interactive voice responsive (IVR) platform developed in Niger and it allows farmers, breeders and buyers to access information, advice, warnings and market prices in the field of agriculture and livestock. E-KOKARI allows farming communities...
Winner of RFI’s Challenge App Africa announced
27/11/2018
Serge Auguste Zaonogo from Burkina Faso won the Radio France Internationale (RFI) Challenge App Africa for his invention ‘Saagga’ - an electronic mapping system that optimizes irrigation in the agricultural sector, permitting management while on-the-move. In a recent article, FAO noted that in...
New ITU resolution on the use of ICTs to bridge the financial inclusion gap
13/11/2018
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Member States have approved at new resolution that consolidate ITU’s mandate on matters relating to digital financial inclusion, reports ITU. The except of the news can be read below “Two billion adults worldwide do not have a bank account, but among...
WFP and Alibaba enter into a partnership towards a World with Zero Hunger
05/11/2018
The partnership will support efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 – a world with zero hunger. Alibaba and The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have entered into a strategic partnership to achieve a world with zero hunger – which is Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2...
Call for Speakers to the 11th ICT4D Conference
23/10/2018
The ICT4D Conference organising committee is pleased to announce the "Call for Speakers" to the 11th ICT4D conference which will take place on April 30th to May 3rd 2019 in Kampala, Uganda. ICT4D conference is a yearly gathering that bring together public, private and civil society organizations...