Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Mobilizing the agricultural value chain

A nice report on how services on mobile phones and other similar devices have started affecting important decisions regarding inputs, production, marketing, processing and distribution for stakeholders across the agricultural value chain. It also sheds light on some key challenges faced by mobile service providers in scaling up the operations and ensuring sustainability for the whole ecosystem development.

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTINFORMATIONANDCOMMUNICATIONANDTECHNOLOGIES/Resources/IC4D-2012-Chapter-2.pdf


A whole lot of other uses of mobile as a tool for ICT4D can be found on the below link.

http://www.infodev.org/en/Publication.1179.html

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