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- Agriculture Support with SMS
- ICT for the edge
- @futuresandwich / kinyei.org
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- SMS: A Frontier Technology
- Most ICT is exclusive to the affluent & urban
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- Financial requirements 3. Infrastructure requirements 4.
Education requirements
- About 75% of Cambodians live in rural areas
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- For most of the people in the world who need it most, SMS is
the only way to access the power of ICT for development.
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- Data queries 8. Expert Consultation / Mechanical Turks
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- So.. what does a farmer want to know?
- Design an agricultural SMS information system
10. CAMIP - Cambodia 11. AMIS - Cameroon 12. DatGro - Chile 13.
Ossian - India 14.
- But they're kind of hard to maintain...
- Difficult to maintain body of information required 15.
Difficult to ensure information integrity 16. Difficult to answer
niche needs of smallholders
17. Agriculture 2.0
- (crowd-sourced, social, user-regulated)
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- So.. what does a farmer want to know?
- International market prices
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- So.. what does a farmer want to know?
- International market prices 20. Expert advice
21.
- So.. what does a farmer want to know?
- International market prices 22. Expert advice 23. Weather
forecasts
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- So.. what does a farmer want to know?
- International market prices 25. Expert advice 26. Weather
forecasts 27. Phone numbers
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- So.. what does a farmer want to know?
- International market prices 29. Expert advice 30. Weather
forecasts 31. Phone numbers
Technology is most valuable when it is social 32.
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- Data queries 34. Expert Consultation / Mechanical Turks
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- Data queries 37. Expert Consultation / Mechanical Turks
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