Wednesday, 4 May 2016

ICTs for agriculture – opportunities for youth, smart solutions for farmers





In partnership with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), CTA will be showcasing promising ICT innovations and hosting discussions on how to do more to foster creative youth involvement in addressing some of agriculture’s most pressing problems.

In many developing countries, young people are proving increasingly adept at creating ICT applications to strengthen agri-food systems. A Plug & Play event at the WSIS Forum 2016 will allow visitors to discover a range of ICT platforms and give visibility to the young entrepreneurs who developed them. The session is based on the highly successful Plug & Play model launched by CTA in 2013, and since used around the world to demonstrate the potential of a wide range of technologies designed to improve practices at various stages along the agricultural value chain.
 
Participants will be encouraged to test-drive the latest mobile and web-based applications, and discover how they could make these tools work for them in agricultural activities. There will be opportunities for them to engage with the innovators, who will each be given 15 minutes to pitch their application to the audience. Innovations presented at the session will include AgroCentral, a cloud-based platform that links agri-businesses to their suppliers, FarmDrive, which improves access to credit for smallholder farmers, MOBIS, which offers banking software for Savings and Credit Cooperatives, Musoni, a core-banking system, CropGuard and PEAT, two apps to help farmers recognise and treat plant pathogens and nutrient deficiencies. Some of these innovations where developed in the framework of the CTA's agricultural hackathon and incubation activities, known as AgriHack Talent

http://www.cta.int/en/article/2016-04-22/icts-for-agriculture-n-opportunities-for-youth-smart-solutions-for-farmers.html

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