Stella Kamuyu
| Organization type | Other |
|---|---|
| Country | Kenya |
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Forum Forum: 2013 CTA ICT OBSERVATORY “Strengthening e-Agriculture Strategies in ACP Countries”
Question 5 (opens 5 Mar.)
Submitted by Stella Kamuyu on Thu, 03/07/2013 - 09:27
The Ministry of Agriculture plays a key role in ICT for Agriculture in Kenya.
Overly, they have created an enabling environment for ICT in the sector for Growth.
From the Vision 2030, the sector is recognized as key to economic development. The Ministry is anchored on the Agriculture Sector Development Strategy (ASDS) that acknowledges use of ICT in Agriculture. More recently, the National Agricultural Sector Extension Policy was launched and this policy has provisions for ICT in Agriculture, actually it analyses its contextual background and its current status.
The roles are complimentary between the ICT and Agric stakeholders. The ICT professionals develop the technology, deliver it and support it. They also help the stakeholders to understand what the technology means and how best to take advantage of the same.
Stakeholder roles
Stakeholders on their part provide info to the ICT pple and requests for solutions to their problems. This is what guides ICT to create solutions and to innovate new methods or processes that stakeholders can use. Farmers can participate in this process by coming together into strong associations and groupings so that they can be able to collaborate in the development of these technologies. This way they are also able to mobilize their members or the grassroots users to take advantage of these solutions (providing a platform to ensure that the technology easily reaches grassroots).
Overly, they have created an enabling environment for ICT in the sector for Growth.
From the Vision 2030, the sector is recognized as key to economic development. The Ministry is anchored on the Agriculture Sector Development Strategy (ASDS) that acknowledges use of ICT in Agriculture. More recently, the National Agricultural Sector Extension Policy was launched and this policy has provisions for ICT in Agriculture, actually it analyses its contextual background and its current status.
The roles are complimentary between the ICT and Agric stakeholders. The ICT professionals develop the technology, deliver it and support it. They also help the stakeholders to understand what the technology means and how best to take advantage of the same.
Stakeholder roles
Stakeholders on their part provide info to the ICT pple and requests for solutions to their problems. This is what guides ICT to create solutions and to innovate new methods or processes that stakeholders can use. Farmers can participate in this process by coming together into strong associations and groupings so that they can be able to collaborate in the development of these technologies. This way they are also able to mobilize their members or the grassroots users to take advantage of these solutions (providing a platform to ensure that the technology easily reaches grassroots).
Question 1 (opens 25 Feb.)
Submitted by Stella Kamuyu on Tue, 02/26/2013 - 09:31
These strategies are important because as technology has really advanced, proper strategies need to be implemented so that all the stakeholders, especially those involved in agriculture, can be aware of the possibilities that technology can deliver to their activities. Technology is an enabler of other sectors or operations, meaning that what technology does is to add value to whatever is that we all do.
Some reasons that underlay of the importance of ICT strategies in agriculture include:-
· Its costs (relatively cheaper compared to paperwork)
· Increases efficiency in terms of time and accuracy
· Increasing knowledge sharing among partners disregarding the physical barriers or time and distances
· Improving collaboration, networking and partnerships
· More reliable information
· Eases information storage and retrieval
Submitted by Stella Kamuyu on Tue, 02/26/2013 - 09:27
These strategies are important because as technology has really advanced, proper strategies need to be implemented so that all the stakeholders, especially those involved in agriculture, can be aware of the possibilities that technology can deliver to their activities. Technology is an enabler of other sectors or operations, meaning that what technology does is to add value to whatever is that we all do.
Some reasons that underlay of the importance of ICT strategies in agriculture include:-
· It costs relatively cheaper compared to paperwork
· Increases efficiency in terms of time and accuracy
· Increasing knowledge sharing among partners disregarding the physical barriers or time and distances
· Improving collaboration, networking and partnerships
· More reliable information
· Eases information storage and retrieval
Some reasons that underlay of the importance of ICT strategies in agriculture include:-
· It costs relatively cheaper compared to paperwork
· Increases efficiency in terms of time and accuracy
· Increasing knowledge sharing among partners disregarding the physical barriers or time and distances
· Improving collaboration, networking and partnerships
· More reliable information
· Eases information storage and retrieval