Part 2 - What aspects of ICT could be a game changer for the rural poor? Author: Paul Hixson

1. Communications in Service of Extension.
What aspects of ICT could be a game
changer for the rural poor?
Part 2
Paul Hixson
University of Illinois

2. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• Mobile Money

3. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• Mobile Money
Kenya’s ICT Revolution
(from World Bank)

4. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• Mobile Money
Kenya’s ICT Revolution
(from World Bank)

5. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• Mobile Money
Kenya’s ICT Revolution

6. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• Mobile Money

7. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• Other Mobile Innovations
– As of May 2010, 15 M mobile subscribers in Kenya will
have access to email and IM over sms-voice phones

8. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• Other Mobile Innovations
– As of December 2010, ForGetMeNot Africa is offering a service for
accessing Facebook news and chat using a basic sms mobile phone

9. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• Other Mobile Innovations
– As of December 2010, ForGetMeNot Africa is offering a service for
accessing Facebook news and chat using a basic sms mobile phone

10. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• Speaking of Facebook:

11. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• You know about eXtension in the US…
Internet-based collaborative Extension Environment
• Communities of Practice
• “Ask an Expert”
• Professional Development

12. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• You know about eXtension in the US…
….. But did you know about eLearning in the Phillipines?

13. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• …..Or E-krishi in Bangladesh?

14. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• …. Or FAO’s VERCON Conceptual e-Environment For
Improving Extension’s Linkages with Research?

15. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• There’s interest in adapting MarketMaker (a US social networking
geo-referenced system for linking farmers to markets) and making it
work within a developing nation context using SMS mobile phones….

16. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• The Digital Green video project in India…

17. Leading Edge ICT Developments Today:
• ICT-supported radio …. AFRRI