ICT in Agriculture Working and Learning together

1. ICT in AgricultureWorking and Learning together 18 January 2012

2. Mobile phones revolution Largest ever delivery platform: 5 bn mobiles in developing countries Opportunities to scale-up use of ICT to transform Agriculture Governance & Social Development Governance Climate Change 5 bn Extension services and Trade Energy Competition push Veterinary Health Transport Processing power in a smartphone is greater than NASA’s computing power in 1969 Access to Banking and Finance Land titling

3. Nanoganesh Mobile IrrigationRemote operation of water pumpsfor rural farmers • Using smart phones help to verify infrastructure investment and development in Afghanistan TheGeoLocationMonitoring Afghanistan Horticulture & Livestock Program (HLP), allows field staff to report, map, and validate the presence and status of assets. “old” technologies can also be cutting-edge!FM Radio: Agriculture Dissemination Systems in Pune, India • Latest Agriculture technologies • Weather • Crop, pesticides, seeds • Govt Schemes • Market rates

4. A lot of ICT already in WBG projects but mixed results Financial Management, Procurement 4 projects 100% Public Sector Governance 106 projects 98.1% ICT component in 1,300 out of 1,700 World Bank projects Low overall success rate: 40% of projects do not achieve their objectives Economic Policy, Poverty Reduction 17 projects 89.5% + Small IFC and MIGA portfolio but growing Low performance comparable to benchmarks on IT spending (50-70% success rate in public and private IT sector projects) Education 140 projects 85.9% Agriculture and Rural Development 258 projects 81.4% Financial, Private Sector Development 83 projects 78.3% Health, Nutrition and Population 144 projects 78.3% Social Protection 75 projects 72.1% Environment 35 projects 71.4% Urban Development 96 projects 70.1% Transport 144 projects 64.9% Water 77 projects 58.8% Social Development 24 projects 58.5% Energy and Mining 94 projects 56.3%

5. Lessons from IT components in World Bank projects • High Risk – High Returns projects ! • Difficultiesabound • Delays, limited functionality, budget over- runs • Financial Sustainability • too much focus on pilots? / Lack of Business Models / PPPs ? • Grassroots consultation – client focus ! • Top down approach rarely works ! • Local language/ Locally relevant content • English content, illiteracy, target audience ? • Sector level Solutions ! • A lot of duplication observed / Piecemeal approach is normally ineffective • Lack of IT expertise in Bank project teams • Lack of client and user capacity • Procurement not always adapted Technology not the main issue • Infrastructure and systems • Content and information management • Applications • Capacity within govt and of users • Change management and process re-engineering

6. Where do we go from there:ICT Knowledge Platform – connecting with expertise Initial focus on ICT for accountability and service delivery Testing in selected sectors in 2012 Expanding to other sectors including agric in 2013 www.opendta.org

7. Knowledge Platform at work:Community mapping to support project design Tandale Citizen Mapping:Helping Prepare Urban Revitalization Project in Dar Es Salaam August 2011 September 2011

8. Knowledge Platform at work: Water

9. Annex 18 January 2012

10. Using Smart Phones for Agriculture Smart phones help to verify infrastructure investment and development TheGeoLocationMonitoring (GLM) system implemented for the World Bank's Afghanistan Horticulture & Livestock Program (HLP), allows field staff to report, map, and validate the presence and status of assets. • When complete, data will have been collected on HLP • activities in 11 districts of 11 provinces across the country. • Data will cover a sample of about 5,000 assets (e.g. orchards, • household poultry units). • The system is intended to reduce falsification of reporting, create accurate resource maps and allow the creation of electronic and online dashboards that could be used for project monitoring. • The system has also been used for beneficiary validation, for example confirming the creation and operation of poultry producer groups. • When completed, data would have been collected on HLP • activities in 11 districts of 11 provinces across the country. Data • will cover a sample of about 5,000 assets (e.g. orchards, • household poultry units). • Such systems could cut the possibility of falsification of reporting, create accurate resource maps and allow the creation of electronic and online dashboards that could be used for project monitoring. The system has also been used for beneficiary validation, to check the creation and operation of poultry producer groups, for instance. Image source: World Bank HLP

11. “old” technologies can also be cutting-edge! FM Radio : Agriculture Dissemination Systems • Latest Agriculture technologies • Weather • Crop, pesticides, seeds • Govt Schemes • Market rates ICT Project in Pune

12. Using basic mobile phones:NanoGanesh Mobile Irrigation • Remote operation of water pumps for rural farmers