Abstract
Based on fieldwork, we investigate the integration of an agricultural information service into a rural community in Bangladesh. We find that it takes work beyond the initial design and cursory introduction of the service to make the service work in a low-income rural community: it takes the strength of the farmers self-help groups to circulate the messages by word-of-mouth, it takes posters placed at key junctions according to a socio-geographic understanding of the village manifest in a map, and it (ideally) involves the support of the elite of the community via the broadcast of messages at places of high symbolic value. It takes all this in addition to a well-made information service delivering relevant and timely messages on for example agricultural matters. Hence, reducing the issue to one of technical delivery mechanism does not tell the full story.
Originalsprog | Dansk |
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Titel | ICTD '19: Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development |
Forlag | Association for Computing Machinery |
Publikationsdato | 2019 |
Sider | 1-10 |
Artikelnummer | 19 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2019 |
Begivenhed | THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPMENT - , Indien Varighed: 4 jan. 2019 → 7 jan. 2019 https://www.ictdx.org |
Konference
Konference | THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPMENT |
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Land/Område | Indien |
Periode | 04/01/2019 → 07/01/2019 |
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Emneord
- Agricultural Information Service
- Rural Community Integration
- Socio-Geographic Mapping
- Self-Help Groups
- Information Dissemination