Mary Rucibigango
| Organization type | Government/Bilateral Organization |
|---|---|
| Country | Rwanda |
This member participated in the following Forums
Forum Forum: 2013 CTA ICT OBSERVATORY “Strengthening e-Agriculture Strategies in ACP Countries”
Question 5 (opens 5 Mar.)
Submitted by Mary Rucibigango on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 07:13
Agriculture is one of the key areas of high priority in the Ministry of ICT and youth, so there is close collaboration of both Ministries, but also with key partners like RDB (Rwanda Development Board) and BSC (Broadcast band and System corparation). For exampme RDB is making sure that the e soko system (for e mails and mobile telephone) works better, and MINAGRI make sure that the commodities related information collection and packaging is effectvely done. The related strategies are jointly developed together.
Submitted by Mary Rucibigango on Wed, 03/06/2013 - 13:36
Role of ITC is to provide the package of different ICT tools for e agriculture, while for the stakeholders is to participate in the whole proces at different levels, that is;right from the situation analysis, content development, pre-testing, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
Full participation of farmers is to engange them from the beginning and to start from what they know, practical and meaningful for them.
The maini role of ICT is to provide guidelines or orientation and the technical support in terms of right tools, products, systems...etc and relevant information, for example the right and effective infrastructure needed to be in place for other machine/equipments or system to be functional.
The Ministry of Agriculture and/or Animal resources is to have the right agricultural extension information ready to be communicated through different channels, so her team working in agricultural communication/extension and knowledge management should be strong!
For International: the role is to facilitate the learning through e agricultural knowlege sharing, from different corners of the world, for change, new adoption or improvemet.
Full participation of farmers is to engange them from the beginning and to start from what they know, practical and meaningful for them.
The maini role of ICT is to provide guidelines or orientation and the technical support in terms of right tools, products, systems...etc and relevant information, for example the right and effective infrastructure needed to be in place for other machine/equipments or system to be functional.
The Ministry of Agriculture and/or Animal resources is to have the right agricultural extension information ready to be communicated through different channels, so her team working in agricultural communication/extension and knowledge management should be strong!
For International: the role is to facilitate the learning through e agricultural knowlege sharing, from different corners of the world, for change, new adoption or improvemet.
Question 6 (opens 6 Mar.)
Submitted by Mary Rucibigango on Wed, 03/06/2013 - 14:43
To take into consideration the existing capacity of agricultural sector beneficiries at all levels (Production,post harvest isses, processing, processing...etc) in terms of knowledge and infrastructure to make sure that the value addition by using e agriculture is evident.
Question 4 (opens 4 Mar.)
Submitted by Mary Rucibigango on Wed, 03/06/2013 - 14:34
The main lessorn lent is to have a shared goal and clear from the beginning on who is doing what among the stake holders, and what are there to build on!
Question 3 (opens 28 Feb.)
Submitted by Mary Rucibigango on Wed, 03/06/2013 - 13:08
Yes! investing in e agriculture is on way of making agricultural service delivery effective, because the element of time and quality of information is dealt with.