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Communications in Service of Extension. What aspects of ICT could be a game changer for the rural poor? Paul Hixson University of Illinois Part 2

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Part 2 - What aspects of ICT could be a game changer for the rural poor? Author: Paul Hixson

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  • 1. Communications in Service of Extension. What aspects of ICT could be a game changer for the rural poor? Part 2 Paul Hixson University of Illinois
  • 2. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: Mobile Money
  • 3. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: Mobile Money Kenyas ICT Revolution (from World Bank)
  • 4. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: Mobile Money Kenyas ICT Revolution (from World Bank)
  • 5. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: Mobile Money Kenyas ICT Revolution
  • 6. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: Mobile Money
  • 7. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: Other Mobile Innovations As of May 2010, 15 M mobile subscribers in Kenya will have access to email and IM over sms-voice phones
  • 8. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: Other Mobile Innovations As of December 2010, ForGetMeNot Africa is offering a service for accessing Facebook news and chat using a basic sms mobile phone
  • 9. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: Other Mobile Innovations As of December 2010, ForGetMeNot Africa is offering a service for accessing Facebook news and chat using a basic sms mobile phone
  • 10. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: Speaking of Facebook:
  • 11. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: You know about eXtension in the US Internet-based collaborative Extension Environment Communities of Practice Ask an Expert Professional Development
  • 12. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: You know about eXtension in the US .. But did you know about eLearning in the Phillipines?
  • 13. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: ..Or E-krishi in Bangladesh?
  • 14. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: . Or FAOs VERCON Conceptual e-Environment For Improving Extensions Linkages with Research?
  • 15. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: Theres interest in adapting MarketMaker (a US social networking geo-referenced system for linking farmers to markets) and making it work within a developing nation context using SMS mobile phones.
  • 16. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: The Digital Green video project in India
  • 17. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today: ICT-supported radio . AFRRI