1. ICT IN AGRICULTURE WORKING AND LEARNING TOGETHER 18 January 2012

2. Mobile phones revolution Largest ever delivery platform: 5 bn mobiles in developing countries Opportunities to scale-up use of ICT to transform Agriculture Competition push 5 bn Climate Change Extension services and Trade Governance Energy Land titling Veterinary Health Access to Banking and Finance Transport Processing power in a smartphone is greater than NASA’s computing power in 1969

3. Nano ganesh Mobile Irrigation Remote operation of water pumps for rural farmers The GeoLocation Monitoring Afghanistan Horticulture & Livestock Program (HLP), allows field staff to report, map, and validate the presence and status of assets. Using smart phones help to verify infrastructure investment and development in Afghanistan “old” technologies can also be cutting-edge! FM Radio: Agriculture Dissemination Systems in Pune, India Latest Agriculture technologies Weather Crop, pesticides, seeds Govt Schemes Market rates

4. A lot of ICT already in WBG projects but mixed results Low performance comparable to benchmarks on IT spending (50-70% success rate in public and private IT sector projects) ICT component in 1,300 out of 1,700 World Bank projects Low overall success rate: 40% of projects do not achieve their objectives 4 projects 94 projects 24 projects 77 projects 144 projects 96 projects 35 projects 75 projects 144 projects 83 projects 258 projects 140 projects 17 projects 106 projects Financial Management, Procurement Energy and Mining Social Development Water Transport Urban Development Environment Social Protection Health, Nutrition and Population Financial, Private Sector Development Agriculture and Rural Development Education Economic Policy, Poverty Reduction Public Sector Governance 100% 56.3% 58.5% 58.8% 64.9% 70.1% 71.4% 72.1% 78.3% 81.4% 85.9% 89.5% 98.1% + Small IFC and MIGA portfolio but growing

5. Lessons from IT components in World Bank projects  High Risk – High Returns projects !  Difficulties abound  Delays, limited functionality, budget over- runs  Financial Sustainability  too much focus on pilots? / Lack of Business Models / PPPs ?  Grassroots consultation – client focus !  Top down approach rarely works !  Local language / Locally relevant content  English content, illiteracy, target audience ?  Sector level Solutions !  A lot of duplication observed / Piecemeal approach is normally ineffective  Lack of IT expertise in Bank project teams  Lack of client and user capacity  Procurement not always adapted Technology not the main issue  Infrastructure and systems  Content and information management  Applications  Capacity within govt and of users  Change management and process re-engineering

6. Where do we go from there: ICT Knowledge Platform – connecting with expertise www.opendta.org Initial focus on ICT for accountability and service delivery Testing in selected sectors in 2012 Expanding to other sectors including agric in 2013

7. Tandale Citizen Mapping: Helping Prepare Urban Revitalization Project in Dar Es Salaam August 2011September 2011 Knowledge Platform at work: Community mapping to support project design

8. Knowledge Platform at work: Water Number of Countries10 (4 Continents) Number of Participants 511 (Both IT Developers and Water Specialists) Number of Problem Statements113 submitted Number of ICT Applications developed 50

9. ANNEX 18 January 2012

10. 10 Image source: World Bank HLP When completed, data would have been collected on HLP activities in 11 districts of 11 provinces across the country. Data will cover a sample of about 5,000 assets (e.g. orchards, household poultry units). Such systems could cut the possibility of falsification of reporting, create accurate resource maps and allow the creation of electronic and online dashboards that could be used for project monitoring. The system has also been used for beneficiary validation, to check the creation and operation of poultry producer groups, for instance. Using Smart Phones for Agriculture Smart phones help to verify infrastructure investment and development The GeoLocation Monitoring (GLM) system implemented for the World Bank's Afghanistan Horticulture & Livestock Program (HLP), allows field staff to report, map, and validate the presence and status of assets. When complete, data will have been collected on HLP activities in 11 districts of 11 provinces across the country. Data will cover a sample of about 5,000 assets (e.g. orchards, household poultry units). The system is intended to reduce falsification of reporting, create accurate resource maps and allow the creation of electronic and online dashboards that could be used for project monitoring. The system has also been used for beneficiary validation, for example confirming the creation and operation of poultry producer groups.

11. “old” technologies can also be cutting-edge! Latest Agriculture technologies Weather Crop, pesticides, seeds Govt Schemes Market rates ICT Project in Pune FM Radio : Agriculture Dissemination Systems

12. Using basic mobile phones: Nano Ganesh Mobile Irrigation Remote operation of water pumps for rural farmers