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Welcome to the second week of this e-Forum discussion on the ICTs and Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition. We had an interesting 1st week with many participants addressing that week’s question.

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Thank your Dr Simone Sala for your introductory comments and we looking forward to yet another lively discussion this week.

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What are the specific constraints you have faced in the use of ICTs for sustainable intensification of horticulture crop based systems and do you have any recommendations to decision makers for the use of ICTs in SCPI of horticulture-based systems? (NGOs, civil society and governments)

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Resilience projects are like any other project with a conception, formulation and other steps in the projects life cycle. A resilience project would probably have a measure of intervention with regards to how it will help community withstands shocks.In most cases should the community have 1.information, 2.Funding, 3. Expertise, 4 Enabling Environment - they should to some measure withstand effects of different unexpected challenges. The possibility of applying technological solutions are vast in the areas above. However, for me l agree with the above sentiments of a needs based and project based approach. The project should pre-identify the needed actions and then what technology can be used to effectively and efficiently carry out that task. Usually technology is able to transcend the various limitation a manual solutions has. For example, a cash distribution activity might not be possible where proper banking infrastructure exist, under disaster areas, in inaccessible environments and also in times of crisis. Then technological solution say of mobile cash transfer become very handy. So in a nutshell there is a need to map at project log frame and activities and see the cost and benefit of adopting a technological solution. I would love to hear from also other panelist if there are evaluation tools that can be used to determine technology use, when and when not,just a guide. There is always a mapping process of the desired activity and the relevant technology and how it can be applied and be used.