1. Science Forum Workshop Theme 3
ICT-enabled Agricultural Science for Development Scenarios, Opportunities, Issues by <Balaji, ICRISAT>
ICTs transforming agricultural science, research & technology generation
Science Forum Workshop Theme 3

2. Scenario’s
Rise of the Small-holder Farmer to the Center Stage of International Agriculture
Known gaps in the Research-Extension-Farmer continuum, not fully addressed in Eco-Inno approaches
ICT’s: Whole new approaches in “end user innovation” emerging

3. Opportunities
Very large scale content aggregation in agriculture
Collaboration and crowd-sourcing with Semantic Web
Gather the Tips: Farmers and producers can contribute data directly
Blend of sensornet and mobile networks
Wider use of map-like interfaces
Open Source WebGIS

4. Issues Disconnect between institutional agri expertise and ICT tools
Divergence of ICTA and ICT4D: champions not able to ingrain agricultural and farming aspects
Lack of adequate data volume to build “open services” blending non-PC with PC-centric approaches

5. More Information www.agropedia.net (Web 2 -3 bridging)
(Web-mobile-voice)
(Open Source GIS)