ICTUpdate - a current awareness bulletin for ACP Agriculture

Current issue: Livelihoods

  • Issue no. 49
  • May 2009

  1. Talking back to radio

    Broadcasters use ICTs to involve farmers in radio programmes for rural A...

  2. The centre of information

    Regional information centres promote crop production in Ethiopia

  3. Listening to farmers

    Video, radio and TV supports agricultural extension work in the Pacific

  4. Data collection using mobile phones

Perspectives

People at the centre of technology

In the mid-1960s, land reform in my country gave the land back to the farmers. This marked the end of feudalism, and although you might expect the farmers to have broken al...

Q&A

ICTs grow in agriculture

What was your first experience of ICTs being used to improve the livelihoods of farmers?In Nigeria the use of radio to broadcast agricultural information dates back to ind...

Techtip

Data collection using mobile phones

Mobile Researcher is a tiny application that can be installed on the mobile phones of project staff or community members to gather data


Editorial

Editorial: Encouraging feedback from farmers

Farming methods are traditionally passed down from one generation to the next. Sons and daughters practise tried and tested techniques, learned over many years of working t...

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FEATURED TECHNOLOGY: Hardware

Using BGAN to talk..

Using a VoIP conference call feature on a portable satellite connection, remote communities can express their opinions in their own language, and organizations ca......

Ready for new developments..

As internet coverage expands in Ghana, a project helps schools make the best use of the web and helps rural communities adapt to the technology....

Campaigning against conflict..

Frustrated by the lack of mainstream media attention, international human rights organizations are using the internet to maintain focus on the conflict in Darfur....

Saving traditions..

The indigenous Ngalia people of Western Australia have adapted a wide variety of technologies in their fight to preserve their traditional knowledge and culture....

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FEATURED Theme: Issue no. 60 - Rural ICT policy

The benefits of better serv.....

Access to telecommunication services can greatly improve economic growth. And this is especially the case in developing countries. According to the World Bank,.....

Input through data..

Since 2002, the SEND Foundation has been monitoring Ghana’s poverty reduction strategy, and researching whether the country’s poor have been benefitting from th.....

The democracy of technology..

National ICT policies provide guidance on how a country promotes the development of the information and communications sector. Ideally, these policies ensure th.....

A network for a new economy..

The Government of Rwanda’s document, ‘Vision 2020’, sets out plans that will transform the country’s economy from being largely dependent on agriculture to conc.....

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