Array Roxanna Samii
| Organization type | roxy |
|---|---|
| Country | Italy |
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Forum Forum: "Using ICT to enable Agricultural Innovation Systems for smallholders" September, 2012
Question 1 (opens 17 Sept.)
Submitted by Roxanna Samii on Tue, 09/18/2012 - 09:59
What an interesting read. I have a couple of questions: who is producing the content for the various services and how is content consumed?
Are the innovations only technological or also behavioural? Do we have hard evidence on change of power relationshiop between farmers, traders and consumers?
Forum Forum: "ICT for Rural Economic Development" November, 2010
3. How can we establish processes to make information about benefits and results of impact analysis systematically available?
Submitted by Roxanna Samii on Tue, 11/30/2010 - 07:03
Ummm not sure I completely agree with Jenny about having "information clearing house". This sounds to me too top-down and not very much in-line with the new "crowd sourcing" paradigm.
Donors, academia, project beneficiaries, private and public sector, have to get much better in systematically documenting their experiences and sharing the good, bad and indifferent. We should be brave enough to share our failures, as failures are a stepping stone to success.
The idea of clearing house is a scary one for me.... Who will clear what, who has the authority to clear what? Will it be someone sitting in an office with little or no on-the-ground experience? Would not it be better for peers to validate the findings and impact of an activity/project?
Would not it be better to hear first hand from the people who were directly involved with a rural development activity why it worked and why it did not work.
Honestly speaking I do not have an answer to this question - which for me is the 1 million dollar question. But I am 100% convinced that a clearing house is not quite the answer!
2. How to analyze the socio-economic impact in rural areas?
Submitted by Roxanna Samii on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 16:00
Kimole - you took the words out of my mouth! Well said. Your analysis is right on.
Submitted by Roxanna Samii on Sun, 11/28/2010 - 15:58
Jenny is right, crowdsourcing requires verification, but the very nature of crowdsourcing implies a self verification. If out of 50 messages, 40 say the same thing, then one would assume that the information is correct.
1. What is the value of analyzing the socio-economic impact of ICT in rural areas?
Submitted by Roxanna Samii on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 08:38
So are you suggesting that it is obvious that ICTs are indeed having an impact on the lives of poor rural people and that instead of spending time in impact assessment studies we should just move on and scale up and mainstream successful interventions?
Submitted by Roxanna Samii on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 08:35
Love the analogy of the bus!!! Right on
Submitted by Roxanna Samii on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 08:34
Karl- At least in the muiltilateral world and I would hope in development world in general - ICT projects are not done in isolation but within the bigger context of development projects.... and mostly these are done in remote rural areas.... so yes, we are talking about impact of ICT-related activities within development projects and programmes.
I would be interested to hear the views of the private sector as to how they assess the impact of their investment.... I guess for them it is easier... the impact=if they increase their revenues, while for us the impact is if we have improved the livelihoods of the people we work for and with and those who we serve
Submitted by Roxanna Samii on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 08:30
Could not agree more that we should move beyond pilots and start mainstreaming and scaling up ICT4D interventions. Love to hear people's view on a recent blogpost http://rsamii.blogspot.com/2010/09/enough-with-pilots-lets-get-serious-…
Submitted by Roxanna Samii on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 08:27
Do we need a new set of indicators and new methodology, or can we use an existing one? Have you conducted ICT related impact assessment. It would be useful if colleagues on this forum could share the methodology and their experience in conducting ICT related assessments
Submitted by Roxanna Samii on Thu, 11/25/2010 - 08:25
Path - how about broadening our view of ICT beyond just computers.... what about rural radio, what about mobile telephony, what about blending old and new ICTs....