Empowerment of rural farmers through information sharing using inexpensive technologies

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dc.contributor.authorIraba, M. Louise
dc.contributor.authorVenter, Isabella M.
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-28T07:27:22Z
dc.date.available2014-08-28T07:27:22Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses how to empower rural farmers to do business by means of inexpensive mobile technologies. In particular, the aim is to take advantage of the inexpensive features of low-end mobile phones to access market related information and to allow farmers to promote their commodities competitively. The research targeted rural Transkei farmers in the Eastern Cape. The farmers’ requirements were identified and a prototype for a low- as well as high-end mobile environment was designed to address these requirements. The following features were effected: registration of users, posting of commodities, retrieval of information, and communication with others. The access to the system is through a website (on the phone or a personal computer) or by means of unstructured supplementary service data. The prototype was implemented and tested. The users found the technology easy to use.en_US
dc.description.accreditationWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.identifier.citationIraba, M.L. & Venter, I.M. (2011). Empowerment of rural farmers through information sharing using inexpensive technologies. In Proc. Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, pp. 279 – 282. Cape Town, South Africaen_US
dc.identifier.isbn: 978-1-4503-0878-6
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1211
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherACMen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesACM ICPS Conference Series;
dc.rightsCopyright ACM. This file may be freely used for educational purposes, as long as it is not altered in any way. Acknowledgement of the authors and the source is required.
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectMobile computingen_US
dc.subjectUnstructured supplementary service dataen_US
dc.subjectShort message serviceen_US
dc.subjectWebsiteen_US
dc.subjectCommoditiesen_US
dc.subjectFarmersen_US
dc.subjectInformation communication technology for developmenten_US
dc.titleEmpowerment of rural farmers through information sharing using inexpensive technologiesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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