Alice Van der Elstraeten
| Organization | FAO |
|---|---|
| Organization type | International Organization |
| Organization role |
Knowledge and Information Management Specialist
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| Country | Panama |
| Area of Expertise |
knowledge management, communication for development, project management, gender
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Alice Van der Elstraeten is Information Management Specialist and part of the e-Agriculture Team at the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). She joined FAO in 2012 as a Knowledge Management Officer in Niger after having worked as a communication for development specialist for several organizations in the Great Lakes Region. She has been working on e-Agriculture for several years and focuses specifically on capitalization of experiences and capacity development activities for the Community of Practice. Based in Panama, she is the e-Agriculture and AGORA focal point for Central America.
This member participated in the following Forums
Forum Forum ICTs for Resilience
Do you have concrete examples of successful use of ICTs in resilience? (November 30th)
The pdf with more information from Walter de Oliveira - FAO - Mozambique can be downloaded here
ps. To all participants - you can upload your documents by creating a knowledge based item or send them to me ([email protected]) and I will do it for you and provide you with a link so you can add it direcly to your post !
Welcome to the second question of the forum. Under this question our experts will have the opportunity to share their successfull experiences with ICTs for resilience. We are of course also looking forward to read about the experiences from all the members of the Community of Practice! Do not hesitate to ask the experts or contributers specific questions on the experiences they have shared. Anyone who shares an experience can add links to his/her post to documents or websites with more information. And again - let us know if you would have any question for us!
What is resilience and how can ICTs help resilience programmes or projects? (28 th november)
Thank you all for your contributions so far. Tomorrow we will open a second question in the discussion - but this question remains opened and you can still contribute to this question during the whole period of the forum. We remain available for any question you might have.
Merci Aimé pour votre contribution! Pour tout les participants - l'équipe e-Agriculture va essayer d'assurer une traduction des contributions en français ou en espagnol vers l'anglais durant le forum. Au cas ou il y aura trop de contributions nous allons faire un petit résumé en anglais. Désolé pour les possibles erreurs car nous essayons de faciliter rapidement!
Dear participants. The e-Agriculture team will provide translation of the French and Spanish posts to English to facilitate the participation of people in different regions. If to many contributions come in - we will translate a summary. Sorry for possible mistakes - we try to react and translate quickly!
Post from Aimé Kazika - Democratic Republic of Congo
Answer Q.1: a. What is resilience and how can ICTs help resilience programs or projects?
To address the issue of "resilience", a word used in several economic, financial, climate, and psychological contexts ... Resilience is understood as "the ability to adapt and / or resist to a shock" that may be intrinsic or extrinsic. This ability allows one to take a new shape to better cope or resume an initial state after a shock.
And, how can ICTs help programs or projects on resilience, ... they can help in several ways
1. In prevention through the collection, analysis and training of data, which will enable decision-making "preventive resilience or preventive or proactive adaptation"
2. By the Rapid and Early Alerts distributed through messages, RSS feeds ...
3. By the direct response to the shock "Response to a shock" - this is the reactive resilience
Thank you Mr. Ahmed for opening our forum and for introducing the topic of the online discussion.
The e-Agriculture Team is also looking forward to discuss with the Community of Practice this important topic. Would you have any questions we remain available to help. Send us private messages through the platform or write to [email protected]. We hope to read many of you soon!
Forum Towards National E-agriculture Strategies
Question 1
Hello everyone,
The discussion is really interresant. It is a good time to encourage the exploitation of ICT in national development strategies. The establishment of a national e-agriculture or ICT policy for rural development service is necessary. To define an e-agriculture strategy for Madagascar, we need a participatory contribution of farmers organization, facilitators such as NGOs involved in rural development, local authorities, town, region, without forgotting operators and networks (Telma, Orange, Airtel ...) and largely responsible for rural development.
A nationalof e-agriculture strategy should include the following points:
- ICT infrastructure and equipment;
- applications and services tailored to agriculture;
- legal and institutional framework;
- ICT capacity building program;
- agricultural information system.
Good luck!
As promised e-Agriculture provides a quick translation of comments in French or Spanish to English to facilitate the discussion. And if needed we are still here for other questions : [email protected]
Merci Marius pour votre contribution.
Translation of post above:
Need for a clear roadmap
The discussions are interesting. Thank you for your respective contributions. I appreciate them. I fully share the opinions expressed on the need to involve all stakeholders in the development of an e-agriculture strategy. In this context, NGOs and associations sometimes are way ahead, concerning experience and realization compared to the government. The ministries of agriculture should build on the achievements of these last and closely involve them in the process.
In order to meet the very different situations of the countries in terms of priorities in agriculture and use of ICT, I would see the e-agriculture strategy as a kind of roadmap setting stages for a large geographical area , a country, a group, a cooperative, ... that they can refer to, to fully benefit from the introduction and use of ICT in their daily practices.
This roadmap should include, among other, a characterization phase (e-readiness), a site preparation phase (choice of priority actions), a deployment phase (pilot, progressive), and an extension phase a series of evaluations.
This strategy e-agriculture should have a generic "core" while providing opportunities opening in order to be tailored to take account of the specificities in different geographical areas.
Let's continue the discussion
Thank you Leisa for your contribution. It is interesting to learn about existing structures within countries that promote e-agriculture at a national level. We would really like to learn more about it.
How does ASICTA go about it? Who is involved? What is essential for ASICTA to function well and to obtain results?
To all other participants in this forum. Do you have similar structures or initiatives in you country?
Thank you all for your contributions !
Welcome everybody to our online forum discussion! Today we are launching the first question of four to learn more about e-agriculture strategies, why they are needed, how they should look like and what we have learned from experiences with e-agriculture strategies and policies.
Everybody is welcome to share his ideas and experiences on this forum page. In order to be able to do so you will have to login! Not yet a member of e-Agriculture? No problem. You can register here: www.e-Agriculture.org/user/register It is fast, simple and free!
You can directly post your comments on this page but if you would like to follow the discussion on your email and contribute by writing an email: this is possible !
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1) Click on the link "Subscriptions" at the bottom of this box.
2) Check the box next to "Posts of type forum topic".
3) Click Update.
From this point, you will receive an e-mail each time a new message is saved. To reply to the message, just click "Reply / Reply" from the received message. The text of your e-mail will automatically be added over the online discussions concerned.
My name is Alice, and I will be facilitating this forum. Please let me know if you have any problems registering, logging in or sharing your comments. You can send me a message or write to: [email protected]
For those who prefer to write contributions in French or Spanish, we will try to translate it back to English as soon as possible, or at least a summary of your contribution.
Looking forward to the discussion.
Kind regards,
Alice
Forum Communication for Development, community media and ICTs for family farming and rural development
Question 5 (opens 2 October)
Dear participants, dear subject matter experts,
Today we are closing our forum so I want to thank each one of you for your valuable contributions over the past two weeks.
The forum will be archived, so all comments will remain available on our website under forum archive: http://www.e-agriculture.org/forums/forum-archive
As we have done before, we will write a policy brief to summarize the key issues discussed on this forum. The policy brief will be posted on the website in three languages (English, French, Spanish).
Previous policy briefs can be consulted on: http://www.e-agriculture.org/policy-briefs
If you have any questions, or if you would like to share other content related to ICTs in agriculture on e-Agriculture.org, please get in touch with our team [email protected]
If you have any suggestions on how we can improve our future forums, let me know: [email protected]
Thank you all for your participation.
Have a great day.
Alice