Facilitation Meeting: WSIS Action Line C7: e-agriculture
FAO
20 May 2009, 16:00 - 17:30
ITU Headquarters, Room B2
 

• Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas - e-agriculture Mobile phones are a success story in relation to bridging the rural digital divide, bringing tangible economic benefits and acting as agents of social mobilization through improved communication.
• Part of the Facilitation meeting will report the ways in which mobile telephones are now being used by a wide variety of actors in agriculture and rural development to communicate and share knowledge for livelihood-related tasks, and also the ways in which the role of this technology could be enhanced. This will be an interactive session.

The meeting will be hosted by Michael Riggs, FAO and e-Agriculture Action Line Coordinator, with a panel of:

• Ms. Roxanna Samii, Manager Web Knowledge and Distribution Services, knowledge management expert, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
• Mr. Arafat Hossain, Business Consultant, Katalyst, specializing in technology solutions for farmers and entrepreneurs in rural Bangladesh
• Dr. Leo Lehmann, Co-Chair Standardization Sector Study Group 13 on mobility management, International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

To follow the meeting through the web-cast, please click here!