Update: ICT caravan

Here's an expansion of my previous post on the ICT caravan. Incidentally, I've blogged about it in our very aptly named "PFI Blog". (Heh. We'll think of a sexier name, promise.)

Mobile internet classroom

The Caravan, which will run from March to April, will feature the following:

  • Cyber farm forum (multisite videoconferencing)

  • Rice science and technology updates

  • Agricultural videos

  • Introduction to computers and the internet

  • Pinoy Farmers’ Internet

  • Enrolment in the Open Academy's Virtual Classroom

  • Text messaging for farming tips

  • Experts online

  • Rice Knowledge Bank

  • Other important agricultural websites

  • Online trading and real-time price watch of agricultural products

  • Knowledge products for sale

  • Maps and directories

  • Last-mile connectivity solutions

  • Open source software


More details in the website.

Comments

  1. ka edong9/2/06 14:50

    love the bus!

    keep it running, dexter!

    ka edong

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  2. iandexter9/2/06 16:22

    Hey, Ka Edong!

    Thanks.

    Hopefully, we will. :) It's our way of bringing the farmers in the information loop, so to speak: if they can't get the info, we will bring it to them.

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