walther ubau
| Organization | TELCOR |
|---|---|
| Organization type | Government/Bilateral Organization |
| Country | Nicaragua |
Forest Engineer, concerned about true sustainable development of the planet, not humans, the planet.
Ing. Forestal preocupado por un verdadero desarrollo sostenible del planeta
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Forum Communication for Development, community media and ICTs for family farming and rural development
Question 1 (opens 22 September)
Christiane good point empowerment is one of the key factors, all need to be aware of and respect the traditions and cultures of each community that ICTs can help the development of each community, but new needs of the modern world are not imposed on i infer intrinsic decisions of each community.
Nicaragua have some experience in indigenous communities
in terms of community forestry, there have been projects in the north Atlantic coast of the country, community leaders are trained for community management of forests, on issues such as conformation of small forest enterprises, administrative training, use of computers, emails, appropriate use of ICT to market their products, capcitacion in forest management and use,
from the state and government has established a system of traceability in remote forest communities using satellite links (VSAT) at checkpoints to verify the origin of the timber, all this is handled entirely by database of forest management plans and community.
equally ICT has helped in the training of community families about home gardens to ensure food security for families
actualemte in Nicaragua a proposed expansion of telecommunications infrastructure in desendientes indigenous and African rural areas, where they are holding workshops ICT sensitization to be powerful tools for the sustainable development of communities tools, runs participatory rural diagnoses arise for the main needs of communities and based on the description of the problematic community poses an ICT strategy to enhance their self-management capcidades.
here this link that all can see info about Communitary Foretry http://www.era-mx.org/documentosinteres/silvicultura/Nicaragua.PDF
http://www.nepenthes.dk/files/resource_2/Dokumenter/Rosita/Rosita_Documento_de_Proyecto.pdf
hi friends of the world , is nice to be part of this initiative of this forum, all the topics and experience of all is really precious, we got less experience in Nicaragua about ICT and rural development , but we are in the beginning, is so important ICT for the ensure food to the farmer and his family, is important the e-learning, for the e-agriculture, for the e-medicine, e-education and to protect the enviroment.
if we focus just in agriculture is good, people have to eat but dont forget of the Agroforestry is more complete, we have to prodcue water, O2, catch CO2, natural medicine, protect soil for the agriculture, the policy in each contry have to change no just produce food.
in Nicaragua we trying to do comunitary forestry, the forest give an other products to survive .
the big explotion of telecomunication dont have to be just for fun the humankind need to change the paradigma of life, more friendly with the enviroment, remember behind the ICT is a trace of pollution from weird (heavies) metal, that the reason why ICT have to be used for humanking and eviromental development