ICT - Technology for rural Asian farmers - Talk at IRRI in 2006

1. Recent Innovations and
new Developments in
ICT for Agriculture
Potential applications to empower
rural framers in Asia
10.11.2006 Jan-Peter Mund (PhD Geographer) - CIM/gtz Cambodia - Royal University of Agriculture

2. Introduction
“By linking rural farmers to market information, craft
workers to customers, patients to doctors, and students
to teachers, the internet can aid economic development.“
(WWI 2002)
Access to Information Communication Technologies (ICT)
and Internet will open doors to newest technology and
recent information for rural farmers.
Recent Innovations and new Developments in ICT for Agriculture empowering farmers in Asia 2