For Pune meeting

1. Guntuku Dileepkumar
g.dileepkumar@icrisat.org
“Demand-Driven and Need-based Content Development”

2. From Africa and Asia to Latin America and the Near East, there are 805 million people in
the world who do not get enough food to lead a normal, active life.
We can achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. In the world today, we
have the knowledge, tools and policies to feed everyone.

3. The Biggest Challenge
The Looming Perfect Storm

5. The only global R4D organization
for semi-arid agriculture

6. Vision
A prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropics
Mission
To reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental
degradation in the dryland tropics

7. ICRISAT Locations
in the Semi-arid Tropics
55 countries
6.5 million sq km
2.5 billion people
Headquarters-
Patancheru,
Telangana,
IndiaESA
Regional
Hub-Nairobi, Kenya
WCA
Regional
Hub- Bamako, Mali

8. Inclusive Market-Oriented Development (IMOD)
IMOD: A new approach
Harness
Markets
Manage
Risks

9. Knowledge Sharing and Innovation
• CGIAR Research
Programs
• ICRISAT Research
Programs
• Critical Focus
Areas
Improves ICRISAT Capability to inform, dialogue with, and serve its stakeholders
 Data Services
 Information Services
 Education Services
 Innovations
Foster Greater Convergence
between research and its
utilization in AR4D
 Enhancing Research
 Improving Operational
Efficiency
 Capacity Building
 Enhancing Impact
 Facilitating Cultural Change
 Facilitating information
exchange, linkages, PPP

10. Provides a platform to bring ICT innovations in Agriculture by integrating
science, technology and value chain approaches (Farm to Fork)
Center of Excellence in ICT Innovations for Agriculture
… many more

11. Advances in ICTs and Social Media
By June 30,2014
Facebook boasted 1.32
billion monthly active
users worldwide.
829 m users on
average log on to
Facebook daily, as of
June 2014.
• More than 1 billion
unique users visit
YouTube each month
• Over 6 billion hours
of video are watched
each month on
YouTube—that's
almost an hour for
every person on
Earth, 100 hours of
video are uploaded
to YouTube every
minute
Number of pages:
32,605,026
Number of articles:
4,486,786
Number of files:
828,078
Number of edits:
706,393,946
Number of Users:
21,085,515
Number of admins:
1,416
 Agriculture and Rural Development organizations must take
advantage of contemporary ICT tools and platforms
 Digital resources provide potential opportunities

12. 630,427 downloads from 125 countries

14. http://dataverse.icrisat.org/dvn
Above 465 data files in more than 10 Dataverse with 60 studies are available in
Dataverse
Open Data Repository

15. Building Classrooms in Knowledge Cloud for Next Generation
Promote Massive Open Online Courses for Agricultural Professionals

16. Agriculture and Allied Areas
 In 1960s, the establishment of Agricultural Universities in India, on the pattern
similar to that of the Land Grant colleges of the United States (integration of
education, research and extension), contributed a lot in boosting the
agricultural growth from 51 million tons in 1950 to about 257.13 million tons
(MT) in 2013-14.
 The model has shown a direction in reorganizing and strengthening the
agricultural education system in India and also helped in bringing diverse
subjects in the course curriculum integrating provision of hands-on practical
exposure to the student.
 Now, the percentage of students pursuing agriculture as an undergraduate or a
post graduate degree or PhD, remains amongst the lowest as a comparison to
the other streams (All India Survey on Higher Education, MHRD). Reasons…
 Outdated curriculum,
 Unavailability of good quality faculty members
 Requirement of reorienting the agricultural education
according to the changing scenarios at national and
international level etc.
.

17. Evolution of Classroom

18. Next Generation

19. Traditional Classroom trainings Vs ICT mediated
Trainings’
Traditional Classroom Trainings‘
2013
Investments 1 million USD
Reach is 407 participants
AgED Open Course Ware - 2014
Investments USD 900
Reach is 6330 learner participants
from 180+ countries
From Jan to Oct 2014

20. One Agriculture-One Science:
A Global Education consortium
July 17-18, 2014, University of Florida, Florida
Sep 4, 2014, ICRISAT, India
Oct 16, 2014, World Food Prize Symposium, IOWA

21. Virtual Knowledge Series Platform
Knowledge Repository
Launch of National Virtual
Academy for Indian Agriculture
September 4, 2014 ICRISAT Campus, Patancheru
Classroom without Walls
ICT Literacy
(especially on MOOCs)

22. Internal
Students/
Employees
External
Students/
Partners
OER, 3rd Party Apps
EdCast
Mobile App
EdCast
Mobile App
LMS/
MOOC
sites
Import/
Export
Employers
KNOWLEDGE
CLOUDTM
Arc
h
CS
Sus
t
“Pre-Enroll Preparedness”
“Post-Enroll Readiness”
Institutions/ Instructors
Security
National Virtual
Academy for
Indian
Agriculture
Knowledge Cloud Architecture

23. Participatory Extension Videos

24. Content Generation in VKC Model

25. Content Generation in M4D Approaches
Mobile for Development
Expert – Farmer
Farmer – Expert
Expert - Expert

26. Transforming Rural Youth into Info entrepreneurs'

27. Categorization of Content (16): over GreenSIM
Agriculture
Horticulture
Animal husbandry
Floriculture
Poultry
Irrigation
Fertilizers
Insurance
Banking
Rural health
Government schemes
Market prices
Sericulture
Farmer livelihood
Soil health
Co-operative
Farmers can retrieve the missed voice messages by dialing 53435

28. Transforming Rural Youth into Info entrepreneurs'

29. Case 1: Personalized Content Generation

30. Case 1: Personalized Content Generation

31. Case 1: Personalized Content Generation

32. Personalized Recommendations

33. Case 1: Personalized Content Generation

34. Knowledge Bank - Soils

35. Experimental hubs: Content Validation
 AMS, Women Federation
Organization, Mahabubnagar
 RDT, Non Governmental
Organization, Ananthpur
 Government, Karnataka

36. Feedback received from farmers
Narmadamma, farmer
from Addakal village
Chandrakala, farmer
from Addakal village
“Last time our whole groundnut crop was destroyed due to
unexpected rain, but this season a voice message received from
Krishi Vani on weather forecast saved our crop as we were able to
harvest three days ahead of the original harvest date. It saved us our
season-long efforts and hard work.”
“We used to take advices and recommendations from
agricultural input dealers and received mixed results. But now
with ICRISAT’s Krishi Gyan Sagar – personalized information
advisory services, we are getting precise application
recommendations in our farms. It saves money and gives us
better yield and income.”
These are two of the 40,000 farmers in 171 villages of India, taking benefits of
the Krishi Gyan Sagar and Krishi Vani – Powered by the Green SIM project
Voices of Farmers: Impacts

37. Emerging Paradigm

38. What is next: Knowledge to the Poor revolution
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39. Knowledge to the Poor Revolution through
ICT Innovations for a food secure future
Use and Sustain ICT Innovations for establishing effective linkages between
Research – Extension – Education – Markets