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NEW: A list focussing on ICT in agriculture (South Asia)
Happy new year! For 2003, we at Bytesforall are launching a new
electronic mailing list that will focus exclusively on ICT in
agriculture.
This came about after a recent workshop at ICRISAT, near Hyderabad-India
on IT and agriculture. It seems that a lot is possible through
affordable ICT interventions (including the simple sharing of
information) is a vastly neglected area.
Dr N Sandhya Shenoy <nss@naarm.ernet.in> who set up the gateway to Indian
agriculture (see the link below), has graciously agreed to volunteer her
help in giving this network a boost.
(The Agricultural Gateway to India is a web site managed by Dr N.
Sandhya Shenoy, Senior Scientist, National Academy of Agricultural
Research Management (NAARM) in Hyderabad, India, in collaboration
with the Agricultural Instruction Media Lab of the University
of Illinois. It is a very comprehensive site. See
http://web.aces.uiuc.edu/aim/diglib/india/ )
Being entirely a volunteer-run venture, BytesForAll seeks your support
(time, energies and ideas) to take us closer towards our dream of
focussing on ICT technologies that work, in a sustainable and affordable
manner. We would like to keep this venture too volunteer-driven and
unfunded.
To join the new list, simply send an email to
bytesforall_agri-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
In a little while, we hope to see some activity at the group home
page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_agri
Send your ICT-for-agri related postings to
group email address: bytesforall_agri@yahoogroups.com
Stay in touch... and send in your suggestions.
FN
bytesforall
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Frederick Noronha Freelance Journalist
Goa India 0091.832.2409490/2409783
Writing with a difference ... on what makes *the* difference
