Administrator e-Agriculture
| Organization | FAO |
|---|---|
| Organization type | International Organization |
| Organization role |
Admin
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| Country | Italy |
| Area of Expertise |
Community Manager of e-Agriculture
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Short bio
This member participated in the following Forums
Forum Forum ICTs for Resilience
What is resilience and how can ICTs help resilience programmes or projects? (28 th november)
Focused on what several of our participants in the forum related to what resilience means, I would like to contribute by giving an example of how ICTs help to develop resilience before the onslaught of nature. We recently had the sight of Hurricane Otto, who touched the coast of our country. Thanks to ICTs we already knew the route that the Hurricane took and knew in advance where exactly it was going to land, as it happened, giving the government the time to take the necessary preventions to evacuate whole communities, thus saving many Lives. There was also a day of the week where there were multiple disasters. On the one hand Hurricane Otto on the Atlantic coast of our country and on the other side we had the impact of an earthquake of 6.9 or 7 degrees in the Pacific. The entire TSUNAMI alert system was activated in Nicaragua and this way, even though there was no tsunami the work was carried out in terms of prevention. In all these situations ICT, community organization and responsible government such as the one we have played a key role in preventing major disasters and human losses in these situations, which as we all know are unpredictable.
How should the use of ICTs best be integrated in resilience programmes or projects? (December 5th)
Forum Forum: "ICT and producer organizations" November, 2012
Question 1 (opens 12 Nov.)
Dear all,
During the last days, Question 1 has received tremendous participation, with over 200 posts from all over the world! At this point, I have closed Question 1 in order to focus our thoughts on the remaining issues this week. However, if you have something specific that you would like to add, you may email your comment to [email protected] and we will review and post if appropriate. We look forward to continue this engaging forum over the other 3 questions! Michael Riggs, facilitatorForum Forum: "Mobile Information Services" November, 2011
Introductions and Technical Support for this forum
The forum invited Subject Matter Experts to inform and enliven the conversation
Sharbendu BanerjeeDirector of Business Development
CABI South Asia-India
Judy Payne
ICT Advisor
USAID
Hillary Miller-Wise
Country Director
TechnoServe Tanzania
Fiona Smith
Director GSMA
mAgri Programme
Collins Nweke
Project Manager
Tigo Tanzania
Mr S. Srinivasan
CEO
IKSL
- Facilitator: Michael Riggs, e-Agriculture Team and FAO