Presentation by Gerard Sylvester (ICRISAT) to WITFOR 2009 Agriculture Commission. (www.witfor.org)

1. ICT-mediated knowledge services for farmers and agricultural extension Case study from India Gerard Sylvester Knowledge Management and Sharing ICRISAT

2. www.icrisat.org 09/05/09

6. Re-designing the farmer-extension-agricultural research/education continuum in India with ICT-mediated Knowledge Management ICRISAT, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Bombay, GBPUAT, UAS-D, IIITM-K, NAARM

7. K Org in Indian Agriculture Wiki-like Content Management System + Ontology (Agropedia) ICAR Intl. agencies Other NARS agencies Commodity Markets Weather / Meteorology Dynamic Data SAUs K-Base Imagery/ Maps KVKs NGOs DoA Q&A; activities Log (aAQUA)

8. Novel Content Creation & Delivery Services in Indian Agriculture Special Workflows Interfaces Knowledge Organization Partners Virtual Organization Users Collaboration and Capacity Building processes act as the glue to various components here Smart interfaces VKCs Call centers Print Fixed / mobile Phones T.V / Radio Stakeholders

11. Collaborative Development of Knowledge Models

15. Novel Content Creation & Delivery Services in Indian Agriculture Special Workflows Interfaces Knowledge Organization Partners Virtual Organization Users Smart interfaces VKCs Call centers Print Fixed / mobile Phones T.V / Radio Stakeholders

17. GIS tools for village-level drought vulnerability assessment Micro-Level Drought Vulnerability Maps Use of two-way video conferencing provided by ISRO is used as a medium to assess communication effectiveness Led by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)

18. We will build new human capabilities at every level in Indian Agriculture Thank you!

19. Presented at http://vasat.icrisat.org/

20. http://agropedia.net/ http://test2.icrisat.org/

21. http://agropedia.net/

22. http://www.aaqua.org/

23. Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

24. Open WebGIS based advisories Led by the Indian Institute for IT and Management, Kerala (IIITM-K)