Dear Nancy!! Thanks for the compliment!. Well i have worked on the research since August 2007, so i expect to finish this work on October 2007. This document is limited to Piura Region which had one of the most develop agricultural information sistems in Peru. The idea is re-invented a new sistem but with learn lessons. I will try to compile my ideas and findings to share with the group soon. Regards, Pierina Benites
由 Dr.T.Ravisankar 提交于 周六, 09/22/2007 - 11:55
I am Dr.T.Ravisankar from CIBA, Chennai a Centre of ICAR of India. We face and try to cater to following totally different user needs in half way 1. Policy makers' need for historical data 2. academic users' need for publications on certain research interest. 3. Competing and complementing research centres needs for details of our technical programmes 4. Casual user's need for curiosity information. Though we try, we are not able to achieve 100% success due to 1. Variations in user languages ( we have two dozen full languages and about 300 dialects variants in India) 2. Variations in user understanding levels of technical matter 3. Variations in needs based on geographic location of the user. The user needs vary for head middle and tail end of a canal vary as crops chosen by them drastically vary. So when ICTs are used to globalise the common goods the user needs are important consideration to be looked at. Atleast content processing for understanding and translations to major languages are important in Asian context Regards T.Ravisankar