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....
15/04/2013
OXFAM- East Africa Blog: In the arid Shinile region of eastern Ethiopia, pastoralist communities are now using mobile phones to monitor water points and provide early warning of droughts before they strike. Oxfam hopes to capture more effective information and local knowledge using mobile phones– a...
05/04/2013
Information from FAO TECA reaches small producers through Grameen's network
FAO-. March 2013. FAO and the Grameen Foundation teamed up to help farmers in Uganda. Specially programmed smart phones have been distributed among rural villages across 35 districts of the country, with the goal of...
05/04/2013
Kenyan farmers will get information either through voice calls, text messaging, the internet and digital libraries. The Ministry of Agriculture has gone digital in a move to increase productivity and heighten food security. Through their mobile phones, farmers can get information from...
03/04/2013
After calling Mother Nature for more than a year and a half to end the drought, area farmers are trying a different option: their cell phones. The farmer who is tired of waiting for rain can now water his field from a smartphone. The millenniums-old concept of irrigation has gone wireless.
In...
02/04/2013
Abstract: Information and communication technology usage has brought a lot of transformation into the Nigerian economy. The most recent is the introduction of mobile and e-banking into the banking industry and this has extended accessibility of banking facility to many of the previously unbanked...
27/03/2013
ZEF organizes in cooperation with the German Society for Computer Science in Agriculture, Forestry and Food Industries a workshop on the "Potential uses of mobile telephony and mobile Internet in the agricultural sector in industrial and developing countries".
More information on the conference: ...
25/03/2013
ICTs, Social Media, Web 2.0 and mobile applications are changing the way we work, interact, think and organise our lives regardless of where we live and what business we are in. Africa’s telecommunication sector, for example, is growing at a faster rate than any other in the world. Mobile devices...
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