Talk:ICT in agriculture

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Hello,

I was just adding some examples of ICT use in agricultural information services. They have been deleted, but I think they would be interesting information in a page on ICT in agriculture. Besides, they are all free "Global Public Goods", implemented by non-profit organizations as services that anyone can leverage. And they were created by different organizations, so the list is impartial. And of course it can be completed by other people who know about other ICT applications for agriculture.

Anyway, I copy the list below. I leave it to the moderators to decide if the links can be included.

Thank you.

Regards, Valeria

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Many initiatives have been started in this field:

• The International Information Systems for Agricultural Science and Technology (IISAST) initiative, which had its first meeting in 2005 in Rome
• The Information and Communications Management for Agricultural Research and Development (ICM4ARD) programme of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR), started in 2004
• The e-Agriculture platform implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO of the UN), launched in 2007
• The ICT-KM programme of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), launched in 2007
• The Web2forDev Conference held in Rome in September 2007

Several ICT applications for agricultural information services have been made available under the umbrella of the above listed initiatives:

Information services:

• CGIAR Virtual Library
• AgriFeeds, the Agricultural News and Events Aggregator
• The ARD WebRing databases of organizations

Blogs, forums and wikis: Many have been started. Here is a short list of international initiatives:

• Blogs: Web2forDev blog, IAALD blog
• Forums: e-Agriculture forum