Posts on the Topic "partners"
The new ICT Update is now online: Applications for agriculture
07/07/2017
The new ICT Update, Issue 85 is now available online. The issue is entitled "Applications for Agricultue" reporting CTA's work in covering the growth and proliferation of digital and mobile phone technologies for agriculture. CTA is now moving forward by developing the Apps4Ag database - which is...
FAO Director-General urges African agriculture ministers to tackle rural youth unemployment through investments and ICTs
04/07/2017
Youth employment should be at the center of any strategy to face economic and demographic challenges in Africa, the Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization José Graziano da Silva told a joint African Union- European Union meeting, hosted at FAO headquarters in Rome on July 2nd...
Four new videos on agriculture and nutrition have been posted on Access Agriculture
30/06/2017
Four new videos on four different areas (mango seedlings, making soumbala from soya beans, sheep & goats, and pumpkins) have been posted on the platform www.accessagriculture.org. They are currently available in English and French for the one on soya while in English, French, and Bangla for the...
FAO launches four new agricultural service apps in Africa
30/06/2017
FAO, along with several partners, is involved in the implementation of ICT initiatives in Africa The majority of family farmers in developing countries live rural areas and in most cases don't have access to technology and digital agricultural services. Through the use of ICTs, farmers have more...16/ 10
2017
2017 WSIS Project Prize in the Media category goes to Agribusiness TV
26/06/2017
Agribusiness TV, has been awarded the 2017 United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Project Prize in the “Media” category. Agribusiness TV is a web TV whose mission is to use video as a promotional tool and (re)valorisation of the agricultural sector to young eyes, showing the...27/ 06
2017
Technical seminar and launching of e-learning course on communication for rural development
Rome, Italy 27/06/2017
| Technical seminar and launching of e-learning course on communication for rural development |
Esoko - Virtual marketplace and data collection service
23/06/2017
Esoko is a communication tool created with a view to building connection between businesses, projects, NGOs, governments and smallholder farmers. Esoko started as a price information service but the team soon realized that farmers needed much more than market information and added weather alerts...
WSIS 2017 Outcomes
22/06/2017
More than 2,500 information and communication technology (ICT) experts from around the world took part from the 12th to the 16th of June 2017 in the World Summit on the Information Society Forum 2017, where they exchanged knowledge and experiences to achieve the United Nations Sustainable...