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Driving Innovation: How Enterprise ICT Models are Changing Agricultural Extension

Presenter(s):

Erin Mote

Organizational Author:

USAID Global Broadband and Innovations Alliance

Institutional Sponsor:

USAID Bureau for Food Security

Publication date:

January 12, 2011

Erin Mote, Chief of Party of the newly announced USAID Global Broadband and Innovations Alliance, shared lessons learned from an integrated field worker technology and outreach platform. Created by a unique public private partnership, this platform helped to introduce 50 new forms of Cassava to eradicate Cassava disease in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Mote discussed what technologies are emerging as cutting edge platforms to shape the future of agricultural extension work, the opportunity offered by occasionally connected and field worker based systems, and what's next - including an overview of the progress of Weather Information for All - a World Economic Forum/Gates/Rockefeller technology platform that will change the way farmers respond to weather and climate change throughout sub-Saharan Africa.