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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:
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Ms. Roxanna Samii, Manager Web
Knowledge and Distribution Services,
knowledge management expert,
International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD)
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Mr. Arafat Hossain, Business
Consultant, Katalyst, specializing in
technology solutions for farmers and
entrepreneurs in rural Bangladesh
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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!
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