1. Excerpt of the programme
Thursday, 09:00 Workshop 5f: ICT for Sustainable Agriculture in Africa
May 30, 2013 ICT Supporting Agriculture, Forestry, Environment incl. Smallholder Farmers
Walter Mayer, Progis Software GmbH, Austria
Vexcel Imaging / Microsoft, Image Data Collection and Mapping – Global Ortho: Rapid,
High Efficiency Ortho Update Technologies
Carol Sella Kinuthia, Microsoft East and Southern Africa, Kenya (to be confirmed)
Opening Access to Research Data for Agricultural Development
Ajit Maru, Global Forum on Agricultural Research, Italy
Weather Index Insurance and Other Climate Related Services hrough Multi-purpose Monitoring
Networks
Bernhard Pacher, Adcon Telemetry, Austria
Strategic Research Agenda for Introduction of Innovative Approaches on Data Exchange in Agri-
food Industry
Karel Charvat, Help service remote sensing s.r.o., Czech Republic
11:00 Workshop 6f: ICT for Sustainable Agriculture in Africa
The Importance of IT in Agriculture and Necessity of Agro-ICT Infrastructures
Lucy Muchoki, Pan African Agribusiness and Agroindustry Consortium, Kenya
From Geoportal to Geosocial Space
Tomas Mildorf, Czech Centre for Science and Society, Czech Republic
Complex Solution for Sensor Network in Precision Farming
Michal Kepka, Czech Centre for Science and Society, Czech Republic
Presentation Strathmore Business school
David Mugun, Director, Strathmore University, Kenya
Supported by Hosted by Technical Co-Sponsor
ARICAN UNION
Ministry of HigHer education
science and tecHnology