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e-agriculture

The e-Agriculture Initiative: Sharing of Innovative Experiences. www.e-agriculture.org. Stephen Rudgard Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. February 2008. World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

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e-agriculture

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  1. The e-Agriculture Initiative: Sharing of Innovative Experiences www.e-agriculture.org Stephen Rudgard Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations February 2008

  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 assigned responsibility for facilitating follow-up on e-Agriculture (Feb. 2006)

  3. 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. About e-Agriculture

  4. The WSIS E-Agriculture Working Group (EAWG) Goal: to create multi-stakeholder, people-centred, cross-sectoral platform(s) that will bring together stakeholders representing relevant constituencies of e-Agriculture. June 2006 : 1st EAWG meeting hosted at FAO

  5. The e-Agriculture Community of Expertise A global initiative that aims at reinforcing the value of global dialogue and cooperation to address emerging issues around the role of ICT as an instrument of sustainable agricultural development. • The E-Agriculture Community of Expertise comprises of 3 components: • Web-based platform (www.e-agriculture.org) • Face-to-face meetings and events • In-country interventions

  6. The e-Agriculture Community of Expertise • The Community includes • policy makers • rural service providers • development practitioners • farmers • researchers • information and communication specialists • in agriculture and rural development. • Community members interact with each other and contribute a range of resources in the form of case studies, success stories and lessons learned, documents, publications, links, learning resources, news. and announcements of events.

  7. Web platform May 2007 - Pilot launch Jul/Aug 2007 - Virtual Forums on “Responding to Demand: the focus on e-Agriculture” (English and Spanish) Sep 2007 – Main launch Feb 2008 – 3,000 community members and over 10,000 visitors to www.e-agriculture.org Meetings Sep 2007 - “e-Agriculture Week” – Italy Dec 2007 - GK3 (Global Knowledge Partnership) – Malaysia Activities May-September 2007-2008

  8. Web platform New components for collaboration Policy Wiki – InfoDev Expanded personal profiles Meetings Congress on E-Agriculture – Japan, August 2008 In-country interventions - reports from stakeholders The Community of Expertise - Future Perspectives

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