13/06/2013
In partnership with Sweden, infoDev’s Mobile Innovation program is proud to announce the mAgri Challenge. Finalists will be invited to pitch before investors in November 2013. The mAgri challenge is one of infoDev Mobile’s many initiatives aimed at providing entrepreneurs with tools and expertise...
12/06/2013
Can you imagine farmers in the field putting down their sickles, and picking up their smart phones?
It’s happening. Mobile phones, internet cafés and sophisticated satellite devices are now literally everywhere. Communication technology is unlocking the food security puzzle – improving yields,...
11/06/2013
Safaricom and the seed fund Invested Development (ID) are seeking judges and mentors for the Safaricom AppWiz Challenge they jointly launched in May as part of the Safaricom Incubator. The AppWiz Challenge is designed to help Safaricom identify and nurture talent within the developer community on...
03/06/2013
While the growth of mobile phones is undeniably impressive, when we look at issues more closely, mobile phones are far from being the panacea that some purport it to be. This master thesis [PDF] by Kari Mackey adds to a literature that examines the relationship between mobile phones and gender...
31/05/2013
Food production and marketing systems are rapidly changing globally. This is due to several factors including increasing global population, high demand for food and environmental sustainability. As a result, the way and manner in which food is produced, transported and distributed is receiving...
30/05/2013
This paper presents the key areas of emphasis in the growing mobile for development space in India. The purpose is to understand the scope and magnitude of the expanding mobile domain as it is lately linked essentially to advance development and governance objectives and seen as the most democratic...
30/05/2013
Major changes have been occurring almost unnoticed in staples value chains in Asia. The Quiet Revolution in Staples Value Chains documents and explains the transformation of value chains moving rice and potatoes between the farm gate and the consumer in Bangladesh, the People’s Republic of China,...
16/05/2013
In October 2005, leaders of Pacific nations at the 36th Pacific Islands Forum in Papua New Guinea endorsed A Framework for Action 2005–2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters. The aim of the Framework at the regional level was to develop a coordinated approach to all...
15/05/2013
Abstract: India did not participate in the landline phone revolution but has seen an unprecedented growth in mobile phones, with over 919 million subscribers by the end of March 2012, making it second only to China in this sphere. The tele-density in rural India, where nearly 69 percent of the...
14/05/2013
A unique “bundled” mobile service is changing the way smallholder farmers conduct business. A new Mercy Corps program, dubbed “Agri-Fin Mobile” ("agriculture" plus "financial" services), is helping rural farmers in Indonesia, Uganda and Zimbabwe increase their crop yields, boost their food security...
10/05/2013
The information farmers in Uganda provide via mobile phones does more than just help them order and pay for supplies. It allows the collection of data that will help them sell their crops, build a credit history, and receive other services, such as crop insurance.
A powerful new mobile platform...
10/05/2013
One of the important reasons for the low level of agricultural knowledge dissemination from lab to land is lack of availability of appropriate extension technologies currently. Given the problems that extension workers and researchers face in facilitating direct contact with farmers due to physical...
03/05/2013
In March of this year Catholic Relief Services held it’s fifth ICT4D conference, looking to explore how ICT is being applied in development situations. The event drew more than 220 participants and over 300 attendees to the opening ceremony alone. The conference followed previous years’ CRS ICT4D...
03/05/2013
In Bangladesh, the number of mobile phone users stands at 93.8 million and most subscribers only use their handsets to call others – the use of SMS is very low. According to Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) statistics, around 30 million SMS were sent per month in 2011....
02/05/2013
Abstract: This paper describes the experiences gained in terms of challenges encountered and lessons learned in an exploratory initiative of mobile phone-based multimedia agricultural advisory System (MAAS), which helps in providing timely agricultural expert advice to farmers on their mobile...
02/05/2013
The Caribbean offers a number of opportunities that make the region prime for the development of its mobile innovation ecosystem. It has a high adoption rate of mobile phones (with over 100% penetration), nearly 100% network coverage on many islands, expanding 3G and 4G networks, a growing demand...
30/04/2013
Vodafone has launched M-Pesa, its mobile banking solution for emerging markets, in India as it looks to bring basic services to the estimated 700 million-plus people in the country that remain ‘unbanked’. Mobile payment technology is developing strongly in the west, thanks to smartphone-based...
26/04/2013
Pastoralists in remote regions of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia are collecting data on wells and water reserves and sending it by text message to regional databases, doing in minutes what it took days or weeks to do before by letters.
“Having this information the same day means [relief...
25/04/2013
When was the last time you met a truly empowered woman? Well, earlier in the week, I was lucky enough to meet Valiben Macwana, one of the 1.7 million empowered self-employed women's association (SEWA) members.
SEWA, based in Ahmedabad, India, is an organization of self-employed women workers who...
18/04/2013
The Syngenta Foundation published this report, which focuses on the use of mobile applications in agriculture especially in the developing world. This report considers ICT/mobile-use as tools for providing information, and gives a typology of information flows along the agriculture value chain....
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