Eric Nana Kwame Darko
| Organization type | Newspaper/Television, other Media Group |
|---|---|
| 国家/地区 | Ghana |
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Question 2 (opens 27 Nov.) What critical challenges persist in our field, and what is needed to overcome these challenges...
由 Eric Nana Kwame Darko 提交于 周三, 11/27/2013 - 08:55
Hello everyone,
I want to start my comment to this post by expressing my appreciation for this opportunity. I count myself among the fortunate youths around the world who are supporting agriculture through ICT.
Now to the point or question raised about challenges in our field. "PROBLEM EXIST EVERYWHERE". I have witness mine and am pretty sure YOU also have yours. I can talk about all the areas mentioned, from technology to gender through to socio-culltural issues and patnerships,capacity development not leaving out financing. Am saying this because all these issues gel very well together to compound our issues presently.
As a social media reporter and a former assistant administrator for a Freedom Fone owned by RIte 90.1 FM a commercial radio station whose focus has and still remains on aggriculture and social issues here in my home couuntry, I have come to realise how profitable ICT can be in solving environmental, health, cultural, agricultural, socio-eceonomic issues (the list may go on and on). BUT there are problems.
Financing
This is a major problem for my organization. It cost so much to maintain and manage the system I consider to be one of the most effective means of supporting both rural and urban smallholder farmers. All efforts made to secure support has proved futile. The beneficiaries are yearning for the continuious use of the system but there are set-backs that make the smooth running of this almost impossible.
Will discuss the others later.
I want to start my comment to this post by expressing my appreciation for this opportunity. I count myself among the fortunate youths around the world who are supporting agriculture through ICT.
Now to the point or question raised about challenges in our field. "PROBLEM EXIST EVERYWHERE". I have witness mine and am pretty sure YOU also have yours. I can talk about all the areas mentioned, from technology to gender through to socio-culltural issues and patnerships,capacity development not leaving out financing. Am saying this because all these issues gel very well together to compound our issues presently.
As a social media reporter and a former assistant administrator for a Freedom Fone owned by RIte 90.1 FM a commercial radio station whose focus has and still remains on aggriculture and social issues here in my home couuntry, I have come to realise how profitable ICT can be in solving environmental, health, cultural, agricultural, socio-eceonomic issues (the list may go on and on). BUT there are problems.
Financing
This is a major problem for my organization. It cost so much to maintain and manage the system I consider to be one of the most effective means of supporting both rural and urban smallholder farmers. All efforts made to secure support has proved futile. The beneficiaries are yearning for the continuious use of the system but there are set-backs that make the smooth running of this almost impossible.
Will discuss the others later.