A Local Perspective: Working an Agricultural Information Service into a Rural Community

Lars Rune Christensen; Hasib Ahsan; Mamunur  Rashid; Badal Kumar  Das

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_22

A Local Perspective: Working an Agricultural Information Service into a Rural Community

Lars Rune Christensen, Hasib Ahsan, Mamunur Rashid, Badal Kumar Das

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Accounting for the ways in which ICT initiatives are worked into local communities is part of rendering “the local perspectives” within ICT4D. This paper is part of that. Based on in-depth 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D
Publisher	Springer, Cham
Publication date	2019
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-19114-6 , 978-3-030-19115-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_22
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries - Duration: 1 May 2019 → …

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Conference	International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries
Period	01/05/2019 → …

Keywords

ICT4D
Rural Community Integration
Agricultural Information Services
Bangladesh
Local Perspectives

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Christensen, LR , Ahsan, H, Rashid, M & Das, BK 2019, A Local Perspective: Working an Agricultural Information Service into a Rural Community. in Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D . Springer, Cham, International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, 01/05/2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_22

A Local Perspective: Working an Agricultural Information Service into a Rural Community. / Christensen, Lars Rune ; Ahsan, Hasib; Rashid, Mamunur et al.
Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D . Springer, Cham, 2019.

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