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e-Agriculture
1. The e-Agriculture Community: Sharing Innovative Experiences and Knowledge About the Use of ICT for Rural Development www.e-agriculture.org Gerard Sylvester Knowledge and Information Management Officer Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
2. World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) WSIS Plan of Action – November 2005 – Tunis Action Line (C.7/21): ICT Applications: e-agriculture FAO was assigned lead responsibility for facilitating follow up on e-agriculture (Feb. 2006)
3. About e-Agriculture e-Agriculture is an emerging field focusing on the enhancement of agricultural and rural development through improved information and communication processes e-Agriculture involves the conceptualization, design, development, evaluation and application of innovative ways to use information and communication technologies (ICT) in the rural domain, with a primary focus on agriculture
12. information and communication specialists in agriculture and rural development. Over 7,000 members, from more than 150 countries
13. The e-Agriculture Community of Practice Community members interact with each other and contribute a range of resources in the form of case studies, good practices and lessons learned, documents, publications, links, learning resources, news and events information. Online Discussion Forums have included: The Role of Public Private Partnerships in e-Agriculture in Asia Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas (in English & Spanish) The Role of ICTs in Agricultural Value Chains (in English & Spanish) Gender, ICTs and Rural Livelihoods
14. KEY TOPICS Important issues identified by the community:1. Mobile telephony in rural development2. Public-private partnerships
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16. strengthens social networks and empowers individuals empowered “Mobile telephony is being used to provide information to the farmers ... through SMS and multimedia-supported systems .... through public, private as well as NGO sector initiatives.” Dr. Sapna A. Narula, TERI University,India
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Hinweis der Redaktion
There is much greater details on these Key Topic issues available on the www.e-agriculture.org platform