Agricultural Resources Information System (AgRIS): An e ...

• Who are our Target groups that we want to reach out to,
through ICT for Development projects?
• What are the key information needs of the disadvantaged
community?
• What are the existing channels by which information
reaches to the disadvantaged community?
• What is the weakest link in the chain of information flows:
from source to the disadvantaged community?
8.1 Guiding principles of designing ICT for development
projects are: -
• Focus on the Disadvantaged Communities, who otherwise will be
excluded
• Provide that information or service which otherwise will not be
provided
• Focus on utilizing and where possible building upon what is
existing rather than thrusting a new intervention
• Create an outcome which in absence of ICT, will not be
produced efficiently or timely
• Understand the difference between direct benefits and
trickle-down benefits for the disadvantaged community.
8.2 Geometry of Information Flow for ICT for Agriculture
Development Projects is suggested to be as follows:-
Who are our Target groups that we want to reach out to, through
ICT for Development projects?
• Small farmers with less than 1 acre of land
• Farmers who have land away from roads and markets
• Farmers farming in ecologically fragile areas
• Newly turned farmers, young and women farmers (for instance in
HIV/Affected villages)
• Farmers lacking credit, tools to enhance land productivity
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