Improving the Transfer and Use of Agricultural Information: A Guide to Information Technology, Parts 63-247Farmers in developing countries receive much of their technical information from family and friends as well as from private and public extension programs. These programs are facing ever-growing challenges in many areas, while an information technology rev |
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Page 14 - The Government are very keen on amassing statistics — they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the Chowkydar (village watchman), who just puts down what he damn pleases.
Page 6 - The number of long-distance calls in some Indian villages in northern Canada increased by as much as 800 percent after satellite earth stations replaced high frequency radios. In Alaska, the installation of small satellite earth stations in villages also sparked tremendous growth in telephone use. When local telephone exchanges were installed in some villages, long-distance telephone traffic spurted again by up to 350 percent (Hudson, 1984).
Page 6 - ... more heavily and spend more of their disposable income on telephone calls and telegrams than do city dwellers. In the Australian outback, "chatter channels" on two-way radios are busy all day long with messages in many aboriginal languages. In northern Canada, Indians and Inuit (Eskimos) spend more than three times as much as their urban counterparts on long-distance telephone calls, even though their average income is generally much lower than that of urban Canadians.
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Page 6 - Demand in remote areas appears to be highly inelastic, ie, unrelated to price of a call, because of the lack of alternatives. The greater the distance from communities of interest, the greater the savings in travel costs and time in using the telephone.
Page 36 - RH Waterman; In search of excellence, Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies, Warner Books, Inc., New York, 1984.
Page 26 - Rural groups can use video camcorders to present their needs and potential solutions more effectively to policy makers through the use of visual images. Farmers and other rural groups can easily use powerful multimedia training programs with touch screens, even if they are not literate. Vertical farmers...
Page 69 - GIS is a systematically designed, spatially indexed approach for organizing information about places or regions in order to facilitate analysis of relationships between different social, economic and environmental variables.
Page 27 - Farmers can get information about daily market prices on the radio or through email notices posted at a local center before taking produce to market. Rural people get information via radio about impending weather threats. Rural midwives can get immediate information about particular health problems from a microcomputer at a local clinic.
Page 6 - Similarly, benefits per telephone are likely to be greatest where telephone density is lowest. The greatest payoff from telecommunications investment, therefore, may be in rural and isolated areas.