Welcome to this special i4d issue both about and by e-agri! This issue is about e-agriculture, the broad area where ICT intersect with rural development. It is brought to you by the contributions of the e-Agriculture Community, a global community of practice united by a belief in the positive role that ICT can play in sustainable rural development and enhanced ...

An ICT initiative for agriculture in India and its potential impact on the livelihoods of farmers and agricultural extension workersagropedia is an agriculture knowledge repository of universal meta models and localised content for a variety of users with appropriate interfaces built in collaborative mode in multiple languages. In other words, it aspires to be a one stop shop for any ...

VERCON is about the personal determination and commitment of partner institutions to overcome bureaucratic obstacles and administrative traditions to improve or establish a national agricultural knowledge and information system.In the last ten years, FAO has supported national initiatives related to rural information and communication based on new information and communication technologies (ICTs) in seven countries, spread across four regions (Africa, ...

ICTs offer great potential for economic growth and social empowerment of farmers by linking agricultural supply chains to national and global markets.ICTs offer a promising potential for social and economic empowerment of rural people in India especially those involved in agriculture (Narula, 2010). However, the opportunities in this field are not limited to agriculture, but are extended to health, education ...

Katalyst supports pro-poor growth in a wide range of value chains through facilitation of market mechanisms in Bangladesh.Swisscontact, the Swiss Foundation for Technical Cooperation, is promoting business driven sustainable development through technical and vocational education and training, enterprise promotion and environment protection. Over its 50 years of existence, the foundation has accumulated a vast experience in developing financial and non-financial ...

Agriculture Development PolicyAgriculture Marketing: From Farm to Firm to ForkDigital Inclusion for Fostering Rural Prosperity andGrassroots DevelopmentICTs for Education, Research, and Sectoral GrowthAgriculture Finance and Risk ManagementICTs : A golden promise for AgriculturePolicy Dimension: Initiatives in e-AgricultureBest Practices in e-AgricultureMaking e-Agriculture Work through PublicPrivate Partnership in AsiaRole of ICT in Livestock and Fishery SectorRole of Communities of Practice (CoP) and ...

Access to information enhances farmers' negotiation power and income as has been demonstrated in Mali and Burkina Faso.Access to information enhances farmers' negotiation power and income. This has been demonstrated by initiatives in Mali and Burkina Faso, where farmers groups are working to find ways to improve their livelihood opportunities by allowing greater access to information for increasing production, developing ...

Unlike in other development sectors such as human rights, poverty alleviation etc. in the sector of ICT4D, continuous innovation is a requisite to survive in the sector.Innovation in the ICT4D sector ICT for Development (ICT4D) sector involves developing and packaging Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), to address digital-divide issues of rural poor communities in developing countries. Telecentres, for instance, are ...

ICTs can help smallholder farmers maximise the return on agricultural inputs, provided timely and relevant information is made available to them.Research organisations like the CGIAR cannot be satisfied just knowing they have produced high quality science. It is essential that the outputs of their research are communicated and put to use in the village, on the ground, in the lab, ...

Mobile phones offer individuals in rural populations the ability to access and interact with information services and databases.Consider the numerous ways in which mobile telephony facilitates every day endeavours in addition to offering phone calls and text messaging. The technologies and applications vary from the developed areas to the developing regions, however, people in the most remote and marginalised places ...

Mobile phones are a more appealing, more viable ICT tool than the low cost $100 laptop.The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimates that there are 4.6 billion mobile subscribers and forecasts that by end of 2010 there will be 5 billion mobile subscribers, making mobile phone the most rapidly adopted technology in history and the only sector that has not suffered ...

Welcome to this special i4d issue both about and by e-agri! This issue is about e-agriculture, the broad area where ICT intersect with rural development. It is brought to you by the contributions of the e-Agriculture Community, a global community of practice united by a belief in the positive role that ICT can play in sustainable rural development and enhanced ...

Personas are an increasingly popular tool for developing successful IT-solutions such as websites, intranets or software applications. Learn more about personas and how they are used in two very different solutions.Imagine you are responsible for creating a successful intranet to thirty thousand health care employees located in fourteen different hospitals. The intranet has to be an effective tool in increasing ...

At Copenhagen Business School (CBS) we teach IT innovation with LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT. Read more to find out how.LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT is used at Copenhagen Business School to teach IT-innovation. Our thesis is how can we possibly teach students at a joint IT/business program how to connect computers to the physical world such as healthcare, business information systems, environmental monitoring ...

IntroductionDepartment of Information and Technology (IT), Government of India launched the National eGovernance Plan (NeGP) in 2006, with the prime objective to deliver "government services to citizens at their doorsteps". More than one lakh CSCs (nearly 1,13,000) will be covering 6 lakh villages of the country. Out of the total cost of Rs. 5,742 Crore, the Centre would be contributing ...

What are the driving forces behind innovation? What do the innovation activities mean for Indian ICT organisations?The Euro India Knowledge Mapping project was indeed an enriching experience for alI of us at Acadinnet and I can proudly say that we put our best minds to support the knowledge mapping study in south and east region. We hope our efforts have ...

It is safe to say that the perceived need for innovation across the board, its potential impact and power to change the meaning and quality of life are of proportions never seen before. Innovation is the buzzword in everything between physical needs such as food, energy, healthcare and higher human pursuits such as education, knowledge, recreation and societal wellbeing. While ...

Consider the mobile rickshaws which go around the world famous Puskhar fairs providing mobile connectivity at the last mile. This is ICT at its rural best.This article would like to set forth a landscape for the future of ICT in the Indian context. Will the investment being made in infrastructure by state and central governments result in ICT becomes an ...

In 2008, a total of 33.4 million people are living with HIV In Sub-saharan Africa, 22.4 million people live with HIV. North America: 1.4 million- worldwide: 33.4 million In 2008, 280,000 children under 15 years died of AIDS 7,000 - 7,500 new HIV infections a day. Mostly in the under 15 years age group. What makes an HIV infection often ...

Africa25-28 March 20103rd International Conference on ICT for Africa 2010Yaounde, Cameroon http://www.icitd.orgAustralia20-25 March 2010World Congress of Internal MedicineMelbournehttp://www.wcim2010.com.au/ 20-23 September 2010 World Computer Congress 2010Brisbane, Queenslandhttp://www.wcc2010.comChina 22 to 24 January 2010 The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Future Networks (ICFN 2010)Sanya, Hainanhttp://www.icfn.org18-19 March 2010 China Crop Protection SummitShanghaihttp://bit.ly/6vhCEy Europe15-17 July 20108th International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in HealthSamos IslandGreecehttp://www.ineag.gr/icicth ...

HCI - Human-Computer Interaction is an emerging area of great potential in India. IntroductionInformation and Communication Technology (ICT) Education has come a long way in India. Indians have taken to IT (Information Technology) as though it was an 'Indian' Technology (IT). In the history of India no other technology has been absorbed as quickly and has involved the population en-mass ...

Its a fact universally acknowledged that India is the hub of software development for the world. But what's needed now is to urge the very talented pool of IT professionals to engage in innovative use of the technologies that are at our disposal. ICT is another field where India has been very active and is among the frontrunners. But we ...

Welcome to the special issue on ICT innovation in India. Over the past two years we have been toiling away trying to understand the Indian landscape and capacity for innovation within the ICT sector. When we talk of the ICTs we indicate this sector to include, the core of IT which is software development, hardware design, embedded systems, micro systems, ...

This article brings out the summary of the research conducted by the CBS on the capacity for innovation in the Indian ICT arena So is there an Indian ICT innovation story which is sufficiently interesting for us to share? At the onset it would be presumptuous of me to claim this to be true, however in the article that follows ...

With its new diagnostic reporting software for breast imaging in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), Siemens Healthcare provides radiologists with new opportunities in Women's Health. The syngo BreVis diagnostic reporting software shows all of a patient's examination results in a single view -for example ultrasound or radiography images next to the images from magnetic resonance imaging -impossible with previous technology. Additionally, ...