ICTD Project Proposal: Interactive Agricultural Knowledge Database

My goal over the next year and a half is to design an interactive agricultural knowledge database (including agricultural sciences, market information, and resource coordination) accessible on any mobile platform (including widely available mobile phones like the Nokia 1110). I plan to work with a variety of people and organizations, including Tapan Parikh, Jenna Burrell, Question Box, Kurtis Heimerl, Neil Patel, and Ken Banks of Kiwanja.net. These people are approaching agricultural knowledge exchange from diverse angles, including voice messaging, radio, telephone trees, live operators, and text messaging.

My next step would be to analyze these various approaches and identify which is the most scalable model. To do this, I would need to further explore the limitations farmers face in exchanging knowledge across distances. After identifying the approach that best responds to these limitations, I would like to work with the project lead to design a growth plan or respond to the project’s key challenges or next steps.