Array Ehud Gelb
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Forum Forum: "Challenges and Opportunities for Capturing Impact in ICT initiatives in Agriculture" September, 2011
What is the most effective way to measure the impact of ICT for development (ICT4D) initiatives?
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Isn't it worth discussing about these indicators and trying to list out both quantitative and qualitative ones to be able to start thinking in developing an ICT index for agriculture. This will build the base the future databasis and comparative studies across states or nations. At this forum we can think and try to do this.
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Ehud Gelb
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Shahid suggests that "integration of ICT in agricultural initiatives is a new trend.." I would like to agree and supplement the comment by noting that integration of ICT in agricultural initiatives goes back to 1956 - tracing to an inititive to integrate Linear Planning into agricultural management methodology. As I commented yesterday several imsightful indicators regarding the rate of ICT adoption, ICT impact on production and productity and innovation adoption in general are detailed in various areas of agricutural production in the free e-book "ICT in Agriculture: Perspectives of Technological Innovation" http://departments.agri.huji.ac.il/economics/gelb-main.html
It is important to note that the book is NOT an historical review. It is geared to present overtime proven insights for ICT4D project decion makers engaged in evaluating their past activities and planning to undertake new projects.
As before comments are solicited and welcome.
Ehud Gelb g[email protected]
".....efaminu wrote: � You raised deep and probing questions. There is need to track down how ICT is affecting production and productivity, in relation to farmers' behaviour in terms of adoption rates, and what factors facilitate adoption of a particular technology - cost, availability, accessibility etc. coupled with farmers' access to other information sources. For emerging economies these are very important statistics we need especially as penetration of ICT is low.
My comment:
The free, public domain e--book "ICT Adoption in Agriculture" provides a wealth of information - specifically on ICT Adoption affecting production and productivity. The link to the book is http://departments.agri.huji.ac.il/economics/gelb-main.html
The authors of each of the chapters review their long and comprehensive experience in ICT Adoption in their fields of competence with a focus on decision makers faced with ICT Adoption and development. Last year the book was accessed several hundred thousand times.
Comments will be most welcome.
Ehud Gelb [email protected]
The comments till now seem to underestimate the comments and evaluation of ICT end users
The comment till now seem to underestimate end user comments and evaluation of impact./
Resources and references for this forum
dedicated a Keynote to the Impact of Technological Innovations. In several sessions various
aspects of information-providing mobile systems were presented and discussed. An aspect
of particular interest included the impact Social Network information-exchanging (Facebook?)
have on Agricultural Productivity. This facet specifically under the title:
Collaborative platforms and Social Media for Agriculture.
The format was a query:
Are Social Networks A Technological Upgrade or a Paradigm Shift?
This questions and findings in this Indian study add universal clarity to the issues as
discussed in Prague - issues such as:
- What kind of information do farmers value the most to improve agricultural productivity?
- Do mobile phones and mobile-enabled agricultural services have an impact on agriculture?
- What are the factors that impede realization of the full productivity enhancing potential of mobile phones?.
- What are the interrelations between mobile phones (social networks), agricultural productivity and social factors?
Ehud Gelb,
Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Israel
New comment : India- Impact of mobile phones
Published on | Publicado el | Publié le: 27/09/2011 - 07:54
surabhi75 wrote
 This might be of interest.
ICRIER WP 246. Socio Economic Impact of Mobile Phone son Indian Agriculture- Surabhi Mittal, Sanjay Gandhi and Gaurav Tripathi. http://www.icrier.org/page.asp?MenuID=24&SubCatId=175&SubSubCatId=691
We need to be clear about the objective or purpose of delivering agriculture/ extension information to the farmers. The programmes or models through which this information is delivered, it is important for them to run their system efficiently and thus through a regular internal process they keep a close watch on if the information is being delived and how to improve the delivery. On the other hand it is also important to see if the information that farmers receive has any impact on their socio-economic conditions. Anectodal evidences from various earlier studies in India and South Asia (including mine ICRIER WP 246) has proven this fact. But the big question remains if actually a critical mass of farming community expecially the small farmers surviving on subsistence agriculture - mainly cereal based economy able to benefit from this information? How have they use
Cheers
Surabhi Mittal
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Forum Forum : « Genre, TIC et moyens de subsistance en milieu rural » Mai, 2011
Question 1 - Lundi 9 mai
Thanks.
with regard,
Ehud Gelb
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Posté par: yotetang
Sujet: TIC et genre en agriculture
Publié le: 02/05/2011 - 12:18
D'une façon globale, le taux d'utilisation des TIC dans l'agriculture reste faible dans la plupart des pays d'Afrique Centrale. La situation est particulièrement préoccupante dans la mesure où certains gouvernements n'ont pas encore mis sur pied des programmes de promotion des TIC dans les zones rurales. Pour le cas du Cameroun, le téléphone portable est l'outil le plus utilisé dans le monde rural. Même les femmes analphabètes peuvent l'utiliser. Par rapport au téléphone, le problème de genre ne se pose plus. Par contre le problème de genre se pose avec les autres outils tels que l'ordinateur et Internet. Il y a quelques années, le gouvernement camerounais a lancé un vaste programme de formation des femmes à l'utilisation d'Internet. Mais ce programme profite surtout aux associations féminines présentes dans les zones urbaines. En parallèle, le
Quelle est lâimportance des questions de genre dans les projets et programmes pour lâutilisation des TIC dans lâagriculture et le développement rural?
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Thanks.
with regard,
Ehud Gelb
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Sujet: TIC et genre en agriculture
Publié le: 02/05/2011 - 12:18
D'une façon globale, le taux d'utilisation des TIC dans l'agriculture reste faible dans la plupart des pays d'Afrique Centrale. La situation est particulièrement préoccupante dans la mesure où certains gouvernements n'ont pas encore mis sur pied des programmes de promotion des TIC dans les zones rurales. Pour le cas du Cameroun, le téléphone portable est l'outil le plus utilisé dans le monde rural. Même les femmes analphabètes peuvent l'utiliser. Par rapport au téléphone, le problème de genre ne se pose plus. Par contre le problème de genre se pose avec les autres outils tels que l'ordinateur et Internet. Il y a quelques années, le gouvernement camerounais a lancé un vaste programme de formation des femmes à l'utilisation d'Internet. Mais ce programme profite surtout aux associations féminines présentes dans les zones urbaines. En parallèle, le
Quelle est lâimportance des questions de genre dans les projets et programmes pour lâutilisation des TIC dans lâagriculture et le développement rural?
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Forum Forum: "Strengthening Agricultural Marketing with ICT" December, 2011
Resources and contributions
ICT in Agriculture: Perspectives of Technological Innovation
This e-book is a free, public domain tool to support ICT Adoption and development decisions. It enrichs the existing wealth of information on ICT Adoption affecting agricultural production, productivity, extension and related issues.
The book’s chapters are designed to share insights refined by professionals in their fields of expertise over at least the past 25 years. The author's insights are derived from ICT Adoption constraints experienced and alleviated, obstacles encountered and surmounted, unavoidable pitfalls and other potential detrimental problems. All these for refining current and future decisions to initiate, develop, design, adopt and update ICT programs and/or ICT supported innovations for agriculture and rural development. These insights are shared in order to avoid costly sub optimal decisions – costly in economic and scarce human capital resources. This resource is NOT a historical review. It is a tool for ICT policy makers, developers, agricultural service providers, research, extension and farmers facing ICT development and adoption decisions.
This resource has been accessed last year several hundred thousand times from more than a hundred countries as background material for ICT focused conferences, international training courses, and, exchange of opinions and information. The link to the table of contents is: http://departments.agri.huji.ac.il/economics/gelb-table.html