Market driven ICT tools

Designing ICT in such a way that they respond to a need in terms of service, as well as a product for a firm, an Ngo a public agency. In a such perspective, ICT service for resilience can lead to a sustainable business development while solving a "societal problem". 

Affordability, accessibility

Promoters of ICT can be sensitive to not create a social differentiation between users and non-users. tarification to access ICT services can create social exclusion. In addition, ICT technologist development may co-construct ICT innovations in such a way to assure their great and easy adoption.

Engage with stakeholders in imaginig ICT for their utilization

Market driven ICT tools

Designing ICT in such a way that they respond to a need in terms of service, as well as a product for a firm, an Ngo a public agency. In a such perspective, ICT service for resilience can lead to a sustainable business development while solving a "societal problem". 

Affordability, accessibility

Promoters of ICT can be sensitive to not create a social differentiation between users and non-users. tarification to access ICT services can create social exclusion. In addition, ICT technologist development may co-construct ICT innovations in such a way to assure their great and easy adoption.

Depending on the kind of Projects and the context, I think ICT can be used differently.

In resilience development projects, ICT can be useful to speed actions of implementations in the field, making economies of functionning, it can help to gather data for efficient decision making.

According to strenghtening marketing resilience, ICTS can be integrated as a tool in Marketing Information Systems. Efficients MIS helps in creating the gaps usually existing between the demand and the supply sides. In addition, ICT can help in providing agricultural advisory services, help the development of marketing relations and increase targeted population revenue.

In research action/ development projects, ICT can be used to test the robustness of resilience mechanism either as preventive noor after shocks in models.

Dear all, I read various posts and I have a wide perspective on what resilience could be. For my own perspective, At the level of smallholder agriculture, resilience can be understood as an aptitude of smallholders farmers to deal with environmental (the surrounding environment of their farm, combining physical, institutional and temporal) constraints in such a way to assure their function which could be of subsistence primarily and commercial purposes. ICT in this perspective, can trigger the development of Technical innovations and organizationnal ones. Technical innovations is linked directly to production systems, while trying to achieve the so called "precision agriculture", providing the exact input at the time needed to improve productivity. The difficulty therefore is the adaptability (practical use, affordability, availability, etc.) of such innovations to rural populations. ICT Technical innovations in resilience project may help in shifting producing techniques, therefore focused in agriculture advice delivery and involving farmers in the co-design of new production systems through ICT platforms. The organizational input of ICT in resilience could be at the market level, while technical contribution seems to be limited by adoptability. Using ICT can help to stabilize markets in some case of assymetry of information by providing producers on current prices. Programs can use ICT to help local farmers capacity building by promoting a local community of ICT users, developping a latform of exhange within rural communities.