Report A chapter by Roxana Barrantes of the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, from the book Communication Technologies in Latin America and Africa. Using evidence from the areas around two rural markets in Puno, Peru, where livestock husbandry matters more than crops, it examines how rural producers use mobile phones and, econometrically, what effect their use … Continue reading Mobile Phones as a Tool in the Household Production Process: Evidence from Puno, Peru
Report A 2005 report prepared by Francisco Proenza of an FAO Investment Centre mission, under the FAO/World Bank Cooperative Programme, on ICT interventions serving the rural poor in Latin America and the Caribbean. It draws on broad regional experience and on case studies of two World Bank-sponsored projects, the Agricultural Technology Project (PTA) in Nicaragua … Continue reading Information and Communication Technologies at the Service of the Rural Poor of Latin America and the Caribbean
Report A 64-page inventory prepared for the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) by Mucemi Gakuru, Kristen Winters and Francois Stepman (December 2008, published 2009). It reviews innovative farmer advisory services that use ICTs, grouped as voice information delivery services, radio, mobile phone and database-based extension services, and e-learning and video-based approaches, and includes … Continue reading Inventory of Innovative Farmer Advisory Services using Information Communications Technologies
Report An article published in March 2010 by John-Harmen Valk, Ahmed T. Rashid and Laurent Elder of Pan Asia Networking (IDRC) reviewing six mLearning pilot projects in the Philippines, Mongolia, Thailand, India and Bangladesh. It finds important evidence that mobile phones increased access to education, but much less evidence that they promoted new learning. Region … Continue reading Using Mobile Phones to Improve Educational Outcomes: An Analysis of Evidence from Asia
