Take stock of emerging uses of ICT across sectors and of good practices in Africa and in other countries, including how ICTs are changing business models in strategic sector of Agriculture.
In that study we want to show how Information and Communication Technologies could help to reduce the information asymmetry in the agricultural sector and naturally improve farmer's profitability and productivity. India has a pressing need to raise food production and agricultural productivity to satisfy his population growh of which around one-fifth is malnourished. Thanks the develop of project like this and improving some fundamental information and payment services and get a better efficinecy in the supply chian other than other services, we expected to growth the indian agricultural production and meet the population's nutritional need.
Awareness session organised by OWSD Mauritius Chapter in collaboration with FAREI and Women in Tech Africa Mauritius Chapter at FAREI Farmer's Training School
In that study we want to show how Information and Communication Technologies could help to reduce the information asymmetry in the agricultural sector and naturally improve farmer's profitability and productivity. India has a pressing need to raise food production and agricultural productivity to satisfy his population growh of which around one-fifth is malnourished. Thanks the develop of project like this and improving some fundamental information and payment services and get a better efficinecy in the supply chian other than other services, we expected to growth the indian agricultural production and meet the population's nutritional need.
Awareness session organised by OWSD Mauritius Chapter in collaboration with FAREI and Women in Tech Africa Mauritius Chapter at FAREI Farmer's Training School
Prepared for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Agriculture Conference, which is going to be held on the 13th, 14th and 15th June, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Synthesis from the forum on ICT and Agriculture in the Context of Green GrowthGerard Sylvester
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Prepared for the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and Agriculture Conference, which is going to be held on the 13th, 14th and 15th June, in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Synthesis from the forum on ICT and Agriculture in the Context of Green GrowthGerard Sylvester
Reflections on state of practices and challenges from the e-Agriculture Community on ICT and Agriculture in the Context of Green Growth (http://www.e-agriculture.org/content/policy-brief-ict-and-agriculture-context-green-growth-ict-agriculture-sourcebook-forum-2) presented by Gerard Sylvester at the Expert Consultation on Knowledge & Capacity Needs for Sustainable Development in Post-Rio+20 Era in Incheon, Republic of Korea. 6-8 March, 2013.
Agricultural Transformation Agenda in GTP II
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its a powerpoint presentation of the student of hon's 2nd year (2012-13)of the department of Information Science and Library Management of the University of dhaka. It will be helpfull for the junior.
37.Mobile application in agriculture A Lecture By Mr. Allah Dad Khan Visiti...Mr.Allah Dad Khan
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Presentation given by Santanu Sengupta, Board Member, African Centre for Mobile Financial Inclusion on August 1st, 2011 at eWorld Forum (www.eworldforum.net) in the session Telecentres: Effective Approaches and Best Practices
In this presentation Tim Kelly from the World Bank provides a general
overview about the project and the debate so far in the eTransform Africa project.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
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Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
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All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
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- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
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All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
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State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
16. They did not reap financial benefits from any profits made off the valuable soybean-derived materials.
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18. Unfair practices affected the way the farmers were paid, weighing of produce, and the time taken by the process. This increased transaction costs, slashing potential profits for the farmer.7
37. Make all ventures as self-sustaining as is possible; explore the possibility of supporting this by Universal Service Fund
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39. Exploit the fact that mobile penetration rates are growing much faster than PC and there is already a very high penetration of Radios and TVs
40. Exploit economies of scale to bring down the per capita expenditure on ICT at the community level (telecentre), national level (collaboration horizontally and vertically), and across countries (regional level networks to minimise international network requirements)
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42. Depending on the context, affordability and capability use the most judicious mix of text (SMS), voice, video to provide information to farmers
43. Use the most judicious mix of channels and devices – Radio, Television, Mobile Phones, Computers, Fixed Line and Print Media10
66. CocoaLink - Connecting Cocoa Communities- To use mobile technology to connect cocoa farmers with useful information about improving farming practices, farm safety, child labor, health, crop disease prevention, post-harvest production and crop marketing.
67. Market Access Promotion Network (MAPRONET)-3 basic business information centres where farmers can access market information and other relevant agricultural information.
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69. SDN-Angola - An initiative taken for the exchange of information between regional and international organisations involved on environment and sustainable development areas. 13
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71. PCs for Community– Evolved from the PC for Every Home project to increase PC usage and to attain the level of penetration to reach one PC per every three families.
72. The VERCON Project - Aimed at addressing the needs of small-scale Egyptian farmers through information exchange between agricultural research and extension and indirectly the farmers themselves.
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74. Community User Information System (CUIS) - To develop a computer network system to provide e-mail and on-line information in rural areas with collection, processing and distribution of locally generated information.
75. Question and Answer Service - To provide information services and products to researcher, extension works and rural producers in Africa.
76. Livestock Identification Trace-back System (LITS) - System introduced to enable Botswana to comply with new regulatory procedures required by the European Union, which accounts for 80 to 90% of Botswana’s beef exports. 14
79. Ushahidi - To help citizen and journalists to gather reports of violence in the contested election.
80. Enter Swift River - To use machine algorithms and crowdsourcing to verify incoming stream of information.
81. Kenya Agricultural Commodities Exchange (KACE) MIS Project - KACE collects, processes, updates and disseminates market information daily to farmers and other market intermediaries through the MIS.
84. Livestock Information Network and Knowledge System (LINKS) - Livestock marketing information system that is geared towards addressing the needs for timely and reliable livestock marketing information for producers, traders and policy makers in the livestock subsector.
85. roving Agricultural Productivity and Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers (IMPS) - Contribute to improved agricultural productivity and production through market‐oriented agricultural development . It is focusing on the smallholder rural population of Ethiopia15
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90. Livestock Information Network and Knowledge System (LINKS) -Livestock marketing information system that is geared towards addressing the needs for timely and reliable livestock marketing information for producers, traders and policy makers in the livestock subsector.17
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92. Agricultural Sector Development Programme (ASDP)- To enable stakeholders in the agricultural sector including ministries, local government authorities, processors, marketers and farmers to communicate better and more effectively through mobiles and computers linked to wide area networks (WAN) AND Internet.
93. CROMABU– To empower small scale farmers economically by enhancing access to price information and insights in trade flows.
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95. Agriculture deal with Algeria – To acquire highly efficient agricultural practices necessitated by the scarcity of land suitable for crop cultivation.18
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97. Zambian Commodity Exchange (ZAMACE)- ZAMACE is owned and self-regulated by the agricultural industry stakeholders. Agricultural commodity exchanges bring more formality to trading methods, enhancing market transparency and increase the quantity and quality of commodities traded, for the benefit of the agricultural sector and the economy as a whole.
98. SMS Information Service- a cross‐border SMS market information service that provides farmers and traders in Zambia and the Katanga province of the Congo with daily information on stock availability, market prices and sales trends that is also supported by its website.
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100. FOODNET– Launched for post-harvest and market research network for East and Central Africa. Additionally it implements, backstops and collaborates on many other post-harvest and marketing information projects and programmes.
101. Farmers' Friend- An Applab initiative primarily to fulfill the information needs of farmer community.
102. Google Trader- Project facilitated to break the limitation of inefficient transport network and knowledge of market conditions to the small producers.19
106. Identification and the active involvement of all role players in the planning and implementation process
107. Use of all possible communication methodologies in order to reach, inform update all parties
108. Active training of relevant parties in the use of the technology, administration of the system and vesting a culture of participation and problem solving
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110. Use of a technical support team on a contractual basis for a specified time duration to assist in initial roll out
111. Veterinary Services which are staffed by extremely well trained professionals which are backed up by a trained cadre of para - veterinarians and animal health workers
113. Historical close cooperation that exists between the Veterinary Services and other stakeholders such as The Meat Board of Namibia, Namibia Agricultural Union and producers
114. The existence of a strong Governmental support network in terms of the Namibian Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry extension services
115. Government support – technical/funding as well as donor funding through the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Namibia Compact
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117. OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA CONTINUED 24 Opportunities As illustrated in the previous slide, almost fifty percent of Africa is suited for mixed and animal farming. This means that a vast untapped resource exists for the production of animal feed and animal protein. We view it as extremely important that these resources be developed as a practical solution to African and International Food Security. This development is crucial for economic and social improvement and will achieve the following: Creation of value chains which will lead to value adding to primary staple foods as well as by products Foreign Direct Investment in terms of infrastructure, plant and equipment Creation of new export markets and growth in the agricultural sector as a major contributor to GDP The ability to initiate new projects with the correct use of ICT at start up which can also be used to improve management practices (skills improvement) Productive use of resources which has up to this stage only been marginally utilised General improvement of animal production efficiencies and the application of Good Agriculture Creation of a basis for sustainable and viable projects in Africa.
123. Issues that has been cited as reasons for failure in the implementation of traceability systems are human and capital limitations
124. Farmer illiteracy and perceived intrusion by systems which are not deemed confidential.Challenges to the successful implementation of traceability and tracking systems in Africa The most important hurdle in Africa is the willingness of Governments to actively support agriculture and to create an environment that is attractive to foreign investors. The correct legislation as well as the application of the law is lacking. Market systems are also characterised by different degrees of Government control and taxation structures are as a rule fairly prohibitive. Support services to agriculture is lacking and the actual effectiveness of extension services is sometimes suspect. Other challenges that needs to be addressed are: The traditional pastoral system of livestock farming where no movement control exists Absence of any form of traceability system Cross border incursions needs to be curbed. Currently examples exist where border wars are fought over cattle and grazing rights Total lack of infrastructure such as animal handling facilities, extension offices, equipment and vehicles No clear demarcation of disease control areas 25
125. CASE STUDY :EGYPT -THE ROLE OF ICT IN IRRIGATION Summary Opportunities Challenges
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127. Use of a technical support team on a contractual basis for a specified time duration to assist in initial roll out. The establishment of training centers for farmers as well as government officials is a pre requisite Irrigation farming is one of the key solutions to food security in the world. The challenge is to design systems which are water efficient with optimal production per unit through a system of multi cropping. The challenge is to design robust systems which is able to supply real time feedback in terms of the operational efficiency in order to make adjustments as required on a daily basis for optimum efficiency. Design of successful irrigation projects are subject to the following basic requirements: High resolution imagery (VHRI) of land via satellite where computer software is utilized to enhance the image of potential projects regarding variations of soil fertility, land size and shape and contours which could assist with farming ventures Information from across the country on soil types, topography, water resources, current land use, and socio-economic factors and data on each criterion utilizing GIS
130. Clinic for the local project participants Highly qualified technical personnel to staff laboratories The existence of a strong Governmental support network in terms of extension services. Government support – technical/funding as well as donor funding to ensure the viability and sustainability of projects A free market system of supply and demand in an environment that is conducive to foreign investment.
131. OPPORTUNITIES IN IRRIGATION Foreign Direct Investment in terms of infrastructure, plant and equipment which will be crucial for the development of integrated irrigation systems Contrary to popular belief, irrigation will still be required even in areas of high rainfall, as it stabilises water supply and production. It also serves as a major risk mitigant in times of drought which is becoming more prevalent throughout Africa, due to the effects of global warming. Irrigation also enables the production of crops and products which are in high demand but could otherwise not be cultivated under rain fed conditions As for Africa, huge opportunities exist as most of the great lakes in East Africa is under utilized. The advantage of the potential irrigable areas in Africa are that they are quite similar in terms of clay percentage to the Egyptian soils and therefore subject to the same management practises. The establishment of projects similar to that which are found along the Nile is practical as development will also have to take place along irrigation cannels where whole communities can be included in projects. The planning of projects based on Egyptian systems will ensure the long term viability as salination on heavy soils will definitely be a long term risk in Africa. Potential to quadruple yields and gross income is very possible as Africa’s utilisation of available water resources is minimal. Through proper design of irrigation projects, water efficiency can be optimised with the result that a larger number of hectare’s can be irrigated as would normally be the case. Creation of value chains which will lead to value adding to primary staple foods and export opportunities after the issue of food security has been addressed. .
132. CHALLENGES TO THE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF ICT IN IRRIGATION SYSTEMS IN AFRICA The most important hurdle in Africa is the willingness of Governments to actively support agriculture and to create an environment that is attractive to foreign investors. The correct legislation as well as the application of the law is lacking. Market systems are also characterised by different degrees of Government control and taxation structures are as a rule fairly prohibitive. Support services to agriculture is lacking and the actual effectiveness of extension services is sometimes suspect. Other challenges that needs to be addressed are: The traditional cropping systems where little or no irrigation is done due to absence of infrastructure Lack of capacity in terms of trained Government officials (extension services) Lack of infrastructure in terms of pumping stations, irrigation cannels, fair water distribution mechanisms Unclear land tenure, property and water rights Under developed markets and lack of supply / value chain activities Lack of market information and insufficient trader credit Lack of Government commitment and support in terms of Legislation and funding Farmer illiteracy and lack of experience in commercial irrigation venture.