Hi Alaslow, I agree with you, I have conducted a research on School Based Telecenter, but of course the parents of the students were involved, mostly of the farmer parents they don't have enough time to learn computers, but of course they know how to use mobile phones. My point here in terms of computer usage by the parents especially for parent farmers because our rural schools are 80 to 90 % of the parents are farmers with only about 20% as stable the rests are struggling, my main point here is these farmers are aging, so my suggestion was let the students work for their parents so students knew exactly what their parents are doing because whether we like it or not these generation 80% will become next generation of farmers. So, thru the school based telecenter where the students are one doing research for their parents in terms of commodity prices, new resource conserving technology in farming and agricultural trend, students become aware exactly what is really farming in the context of rural development. Thus we are developing a more sophisticated generation of farmers who will be feeding the 9 b population in the year 2050 which I think beyond the carrying capacity of our natural resources.

[quote="Lisa-Cespedes"] Dear Participants, please tell us a bit about yourselves here. [/quote] I am Julito Aligaen from the Philippines, a freelance researcher on Climate Change for Education, ICT for Education, ICT for Development, curriculum developer and Workshop Facilitation.

Hi hello Reza, I am Julito Aligaen of the Philippines, working as research specialist Southeast Asia (SEA) based in Malaysia, Kindly eloborate further your inquiry? you mean you are going to setup a what garden? which is mechanized and controled by a computer machine? That's what you mean? Thank for a nice question. I can give my reply next session. Thank you.

Dr. Kumar I think Micheal is right, you are now in the way forward, you know sometimes we forgot the socio-cultural inclusion into a social development process. We are now in the information age, and we can not deny that in every development struggle there will be always an advantage and disadvantage results. Let's try to examine at what extent this infrastructure can help our rural farmers or the whole community involve for development, because even until now I am still conducting research and try to find out what will be the most appropriate approaches that will precisely facilitate development depending on the socio cultural practices of the community. Thank you and I am still waiting for any openion, or presentation of factual evidence that will precisely put of all us in a good plotform.