Comment by Munira Morshed Munni on April 12, 2009 at 12:41pm

You are very active member in this site. We like to see your profile picture, not the flower!

Comment by DR. SYED MD. ZAINUL ABEDIN on April 12, 2009 at 10:48pm

Thank you Ms Munira for the very nice comment.I will try to come as a human shedding the cover of flower as early as possible.

Comment by Jan Herder on April 12, 2009 at 11:25pm

Thank you for the kind invitation, I look forward to interesting collaboration and fruitful results,
Jan

Comment by Rufina Fernandes on April 12, 2009 at 11:44pm

NF has reached several grassroots communities through the NASSCOM Knowledge Network (NKN). Recently we have closed FY 09 with a number touching 239 across 13 states in India! We leverage a whole lot of non-profits at the grassroots to empower communities through literacy, education, health including HIV & AIDS and livelihoods.

Some of the non-profits serve as agri-telecentres (if it can be called that). We call them NKN centres. Infact our experience has been very positive on this intervention where agri-entrepreneurs serve communities through our NKN centres on the above services and in the bargain, they gain the respect and trust of their communities. A case study on this is available on our website www.nasscomfoundation.org.

This relationship built with their communities in turn helps them cross-sell their own agri-services through the agri-clinics that they run. The agri-entrepreneurs in question, have been supported by one of our NGO partners who take them through a two month, government sponsored Agri-business, Agri-Clinic residential course, which is fully subsidised by the government through MANAGE.

Due to the effectiveness of this partnership, we are encouraging more agri-entrepreneurs and/or even agri-graduates or diploma holders to setup NKN centres and serve their communities more effectively.

We continue to support these non-profits with content, services, applications, training, linkages with corporates and a peer support network.

Comment by Emma kahanji nkemba on April 12, 2009 at 11:56pm

i look forward working with you and thanks for the invitation
God bless you

Comment by DR. SYED MD. ZAINUL ABEDIN on April 13, 2009 at 1:45am

I am very grateful to Emma,Rufina,Jan and Munira for their kind support and contribution at the inception of the new group AGRITELECENTRE.I earnestly believe that learned members of the telecentre community
will generously contribute to this page and make the telecentre movement
a success.
Best,
Zainul

Comment by Jan Herder on April 13, 2009 at 1:52am

Hello everyone, in terms of our discussion about content creation, what kind of content would be valuable for farmers to contribute from these centers? For example, local weather conditions such as temperature, perhaps soil moisture, rainfall. I am curious about what ICT data acquisition could be used as learning activities that yield results for the farmers. Any ideas?
Regards,
Jan

Comment by Maria Ines Salamanca on April 13, 2009 at 6:30am

Hello everyone,
Regarding Jan's question. I believe Telecenters have to build cooperation bridges with universities that have extension work in rural areas. Beyond of the question about information, my question is how to engage more Telecenters with ongoing projects in rural development?
But if we can build a list of information and contents that have to be available for extension workers and farmers!

Regards,
Maria

Comment by Jan Herder on April 13, 2009 at 7:04am

Thank you Maria for your insight. The content is, of course local content, which is similar to an approach using creative economy techniques for wealth creation. This situation would refer to content specific to the agricultural sector. And there is no need to reinvent the wheel here; I am sure there are many examples of content needs from other similar agricultural extension services, and, judging from the comments of Rufina, agri-civil types of enterprises. It would be instructive to have the telecenter operators and instructors contributing to this discussion. Are there any in this ning?
Regards,
Jan

Comment by Shipra Sharma on April 13, 2009 at 2:07pm

Thanks for the invite Dr. Zainul. I hope this group too grows like your earlier group, Gender and Telecentre. I will like to see interesting discussions happening here.
Like Jan, I will also like to see contributions from telecentre operators and instructors, and from the community they serve if possible. With language translation tools available, I don't see language as the barrier to contributing. I have seen English to Hindi and vice versa translations and they work quite well helping to understand the issue put forth, even if they may not be grammatically correct.
So, I will request the Head of organisation members to introduce their staff working at regional and local levels to join and contribute on this site. This way, we can increase first hand experiece sharing on this site.

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