<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576</id><updated>2009-11-23T02:00:51.825Z</updated><title type='text'>AgInfo News from IAALD</title><subtitle type='html'>Agricultural information news from IAALD</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25'/><author><name>Peter Ballantyne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15872634007456599311</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>903</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-8977177080206732502</id><published>2009-11-23T00:55:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-11-23T00:55:00.059Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='local_content'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='latin_america'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='agrecol'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='indigenous_knowledge'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iicd'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bolivia'/><title type='text'>Using ICTs to exchange farmer experiences in Bolivia</title><content type='html'>&lt;img align=right src="http://www.iicd.org/images/logos/IICDlogoNew/image_preview"&gt;This &lt;a href="http://www.iicd.org/projects/bolivia-agrecol" target="_blank"&gt;IICD-supported project&lt;/a&gt; uses ICTs to support the exchange of successful experiences related to ecological agriculture and the sustainable use of natural resources among farmer communities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ICTs are used to disseminate information concerning a wide range of experiences, valuable knowledge and the use of innovative technologies among small farmers. Distant communities of small organic farmers can take advantage of this information. The project comprises the registration of experiences and the production and dissemination of training material based mainly on multimedia presentation tools, combining texts, digital photography, audio, video, printed material and the production of testimonial radio programmes broadcasted through rural and community radio stations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lesson learned: "The AGRECOL project has shown that it is possible for farmers to document their knowledge and experience themselves, provided guidance and capacity development in the use of audiovisual means is given."&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-8977177080206732502?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/8977177080206732502/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=8977177080206732502&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/8977177080206732502'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/8977177080206732502'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/using-icts-to-exchange-farmer.html' title='Using ICTs to exchange farmer experiences in Bolivia'/><author><name>IAALD Blogger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14957290018064496317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02567062487750598794'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-2914812727132396167</id><published>2009-11-23T00:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-23T00:30:00.331Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='broadband'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital_divide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='es'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><title type='text'>España: Comunidad Autónoma ofrece préstamos sin intereses a compañías para llevar fibra óptica a zonas rurales</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://fotos.laopiniondemurcia.es/fotos/noticias/318x200/2009-11-25_IMG_2009-11-17_23.35.21__34-OMU-17112009.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 318px; height: 214px;" src="http://fotos.laopiniondemurcia.es/fotos/noticias/318x200/2009-11-25_IMG_2009-11-17_23.35.21__34-OMU-17112009.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;La Consejería ha publicado una orden en el Boletín Oficial de la Región (BORM) que permitirá conceder préstamos sin intereses a las operadoras de telecomunicaciones para implantar el servicio de banda ancha o mejorar la tecnología ya existente en un plazo de tres a cinco años, según informó el director general de Telecomunicaciones y Sociedad de la Información, Diego Pedro García. Las operadoras, que recibirán el dinero antes de fin de 2009, tendrán 15 años para devolver el préstamo sin intereses.&lt;br /&gt;Estos préstamos servirán para financiar "especialmente" la expansión de las líneas de fibra óptica a las zonas rurales para llegar con la solución de banda ancha hasta el ciudadano o empresa de los núcleos situados fuera de grandes áreas metropolitanas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.laopiniondemurcia.es/comunidad/2009/11/18/sesenta-millones-sacar-internet-grandes-ciudades/211743.html"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lea el artículo completo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-2914812727132396167?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/2914812727132396167/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=2914812727132396167&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/2914812727132396167'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/2914812727132396167'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/espana-comunidad-autonoma-ofrece.html' title='España: Comunidad Autónoma ofrece préstamos sin intereses a compañías para llevar fibra óptica a zonas rurales'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-2894394588618946312</id><published>2009-11-22T00:30:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-11-22T08:05:32.425Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='climate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><title type='text'>Planting the knowledge seed: Adapting to climate change using ICTs</title><content type='html'>A recent &lt;a href="http://zunia.org/post/planting-the-knowledge-seed-adapting-to-climate-change-using-icts-concepts-current-knowledge-and/" target="_blank"&gt;announcement&lt;/a&gt; reports on a publication that explore the practical linkages between climate change, access to and sharing of information and knowledge, communication for development and ICTs in general.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More specifically, the publication aims to: 1) Provide an overview of linking the strategic use of ICTs to climate change; 2) Summarize the discussions and conclusions of the BCO Learning Day on ICTs and Climate Change held in December 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa; 3) Demonstrate innovative applications through concrete project examples; and 4) Start a dialogue and stimulate a debate about the added value and applicability of ICTs in climate change programmes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://zunia.org/post/planting-the-knowledge-seed-adapting-to-climate-change-using-icts-concepts-current-knowledge-and/" target="_blank"&gt;Read the full article.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-2894394588618946312?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/2894394588618946312/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=2894394588618946312&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/2894394588618946312'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/2894394588618946312'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/planting-knowledge-seed-adapting-to.html' title='Planting the knowledge seed: Adapting to climate change using ICTs'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-4682610288612114187</id><published>2009-11-22T00:30:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-11-22T00:31:01.872Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eagri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='es'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='farmers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital_literacy'/><title type='text'>Agricultores y ganaderos españoles conocen ventajas de las tecnologías en su trabajo diario</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.regiondigital.com/modulos/core_media/pub/imagemagic.php//media/files/35919region.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 151px;" src="http://www.regiondigital.com/modulos/core_media/pub/imagemagic.php//media/files/35919region.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;El Plan de Alfabetización Tecnológica y Software Libre de &lt;yoono-highlight onmouseout="___yoonoLink.onYoonoOut(this)" onmouseover="___yoonoLink.onYoonoOver(event,this)" onclick="___yoonoLink.onYoonoClick(this)" keywords="Extremadura" class="yoono-link-hover yoono-link-active-link"&gt;Extremadura&lt;/yoono-highlight&gt; (PAT) organiza este evento que tiene como objetivo general informar acerca de los servicios telemáticos que ofrece el gobierno regional, de las posibilidades que ofrecen las TIC para la mejora de sus negocios, además de mostrar experiencias innovadoras que están funcionando con éxito utilizando nuevas herramientas tecnológicas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Toda la información se encuentra disponible en la web &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.nccextremadura.org/agrotic"&gt;www.nccextremadura.org/agrotic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El Plan de Alfabetización Tecnológica y Sotfware Libre de Extremadura es un programa gratuito y cofinanciado por el Fondo Social Europeo , la Vicepresidencia Segunda y Consejería de Economía, Comercio e Innovación y la Consejería de Igualdad y Empleo de la Junta de Extremadura, gestionado por la Asociación de Universidades Populares de Extremadura (AUPEX).&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-4682610288612114187?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/4682610288612114187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=4682610288612114187&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/4682610288612114187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/4682610288612114187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/agricultores-y-ganaderos-espanoles.html' title='Agricultores y ganaderos españoles conocen ventajas de las tecnologías en su trabajo diario'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-7055940972493721650</id><published>2009-11-21T00:30:00.007Z</published><updated>2009-11-21T00:30:00.082Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mobile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='india'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='farmers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='asia'/><title type='text'>Farmers’ voices on the spoken web</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 130px;" src="http://zunia.org/uploads/pics/Indiase-vrouw-mobiel_medium46.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt; An article in Zunia shows that a network of voice recordings, accessible from any telephone, provides information to farmers in India. Villagers can add their own VoiceSites to promote their business.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In almost all developing countries, internet penetration is much lower than that of the mobile phone. At the same time, the rate of increase of mobile phone penetration far exceeds that of the internet. In many cases, the lack of literacy is a further impediment to the proliferation of the internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The IBM India Research Laboratory is now trying to make use of the growth of mobile telephony to overcome the problems of literacy and internet connectivity. We are working to create a world wide network of VoiceSites linked together to make the Spoken Web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://zunia.org/post/farmers-voices-on-the-spoken-web/" target="_blank"&gt;Read the article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-7055940972493721650?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/7055940972493721650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=7055940972493721650&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/7055940972493721650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/7055940972493721650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/farmers-voices-on-spoken-web.html' title='Farmers’ voices on the spoken web'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-6451166333570732436</id><published>2009-11-21T00:30:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-11-21T00:30:00.710Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='questionbox'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mobile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='es'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uganda'/><title type='text'>En Uganda: QuestionBox - Respuestas telefónicas allí donde no llega Internet</title><content type='html'>El artículo describe la experiencia de Question Box, un teléfono de ayuda gratuito y sin ánimo de lucro cuyo objetivo es ofrecer información a gente de zonas remotas que no tiene acceso a los ordenadores.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;La idea fundamental en que se basa Question Box es que hay muchas barreras que impiden que la mayoría del mundo en vías de desarrollo se beneficie de los conocimientos que están disponibles a través de los buscadores de Internet, según explica Shuman, creadora del servicio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Los trabajadores llaman al centro de atención telefónica y hacen preguntas en nombre de los residentes, o activan el dispositivo de manos libres para que puedan hacer las preguntas ellos mismos. A renglón seguido, los operadores buscan la información solicitada en una base de datos y se la transmiten a los trabajadores, que se la pasan a los lugareños. A los trabajadores se les compensa con tiempo de llamadas de móvil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;El servicio es una iniciativa conjunta de Open Mind, un grupo sin ánimo de lucro fundado por Shuman, y la Grameen Foundation, especialmente conocida por promover microcréditos para los pobres. Ha recibido ayuda económica de la fundación de Bill y Melinda Gates.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;El servicio Question Box se puso en marcha en algunos pueblos lejanos de India hace dos años, y llegó a Uganda en abril. La versión ugandesa aprovecha la enorme popularidad que tienen los teléfonos móviles en África. Su uso se ha multiplicado por más de tres en los últimos años, y ahora casi 300 millones de africanos tienen móvil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;En las zonas rurales, que antes estaban desconectadas y aisladas de los centros urbanos, los móviles son un salvavidas que permite acceder a los bancos, las noticias y las oportunidades empresariales. Eso supone un gran avance tecnológico pero, para la mayoría de los africanos, el acceso a Internet todavía es demasiado caro y lento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;La mayoría de las comunidades agrícolas rurales de Uganda están demasiado alejadas como para que a los proveedores de Internet les resulte rentable ofrecerles sus servicios, dice Gosier. " Por eso es por lo que Question Box seguirá siendo una herramienta importante para ofrecer a la gente de estas zonas la información que necesita".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/tecnologia/Respuestas/telefonicas/llega/Internet/elpeputec/20091101elpeputec_1/Tes" target="_blank"&gt;Leer el artículo completo.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-6451166333570732436?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/6451166333570732436/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=6451166333570732436&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/6451166333570732436'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/6451166333570732436'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/en-uganda-questionbox-respuestas.html' title='En Uganda: QuestionBox - Respuestas telefónicas allí donde no llega Internet'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-8192392871166276810</id><published>2009-11-20T12:30:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-11-20T12:30:00.613Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital_divide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='es'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><title type='text'>España (Galicia): Zonas rurales y empresas pequeñas, los más retrasadas en uso de tecnologías</title><content type='html'>Las zonas rurales y las pequeñas empresas son las más retrasadas en la utilización de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación (TIC) en Galicia, afirmó hoy la secretaria general de Modernización e Innovación Tecnológica de la Xunta, Mar Pereira.  También señaló que solo el 54 por ciento de la población gallega se conecta a internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.abc.es/agencias/noticia.asp?noticia=170666" target="_blank"&gt;Lea el artículo completo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-8192392871166276810?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/8192392871166276810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=8192392871166276810&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/8192392871166276810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/8192392871166276810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/espana-galicia-zonas-rurales-y-empresas.html' title='España (Galicia): Zonas rurales y empresas pequeñas, los más retrasadas en uso de tecnologías'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-3126762714379682650</id><published>2009-11-20T00:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-20T00:30:00.120Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UK'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='broadband'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital_divide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><title type='text'>Britain; ISPs should have legal obligation on rural broadband</title><content type='html'>An articles published in the Telegraph (UK) reports that Internet providers should be under a legal obligation to offer fast broadband speeds across Britain to combat the worsening digital divide between urban and rural communities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The problem of slow Internet speeds in the countryside was first highlighted    in The Daily Telegraph when the Prince of Wales warned of “broadband    deserts” in rural areas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is estimated 166,000 people live in “not spots” where there is no Internet    connection at all, whilst 2.75 million people – mostly in rural areas - have    broadband speeds of less than two Megabits per second (2Mbps).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/broadband/6478398/ISP-should-have-legal-obligation-on-rural-broadband.html" target="_blank"&gt;Read the full article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-3126762714379682650?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/3126762714379682650/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=3126762714379682650&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/3126762714379682650'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/3126762714379682650'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/britain-isps-should-have-legal.html' title='Britain; ISPs should have legal obligation on rural broadband'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-7776568109143757980</id><published>2009-11-19T00:30:00.002Z</published><updated>2009-11-19T00:30:01.209Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eagri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital_divide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='es'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><title type='text'>España (Aragón): II Plan para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información para reducir brecha rural</title><content type='html'>Aragón continúa su camino para reducir la brecha digital existente entre el medio urbano y el rural. Para el ello, desde la Consejería de Universidad y Tecnología se ha puesto en marcha los planes directores para el desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información.&lt;p&gt;El II Plan Director para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información (2009-2011) contará con una inversión de 148 millones de euros para introducir en la ciudadanía aragonesa aplicaciones TIC. La Comunidad se sitúa en el séptimo lugar en el ránking nacional de desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;El primer plan, que tuvo una vigencia de 2004-2005 contó con una financiación de casi de 150 millones de euros. Ahora, el II Plan Director también va a contar una cifra similar, 148 millones de euros en financiación, por un periodo que va desde 2009 hasta 2011.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-7776568109143757980?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/7776568109143757980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=7776568109143757980&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/7776568109143757980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/7776568109143757980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/aragon-espana-ii-plan-para-el.html' title='España (Aragón): II Plan para el Desarrollo de la Sociedad de la Información para reducir brecha rural'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-1260660572523359332</id><published>2009-11-19T00:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-19T00:30:00.738Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='latin_america'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brazil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='remote_sensing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='embrapa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='environment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='geodata'/><title type='text'>Brasil: Geotecnologias estão presentes em pesquisas do Pantanal</title><content type='html'>A aplicação e a difusão das geotecnologias estão cada vez mais presentes nos estudos sobre o ecossistema Pantanal. Cerca de 250 pesquisadores, estudantes e especialistas apresentaram trabalhos científicos durante o 2° Simpósio de Geotecnologias do Pantanal - GeoPantanal realizado em Corumbá, MS, de 7 a 11 de novembro de 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Imagens de satélite podem ser adquiridas gratuitamente pela internet e estão disponíveis aos cidadãos facilitando as pesquisas e o ensino. Tecnologias de sensoriamento remoto, sistemas de informações geográficas, banco de dados georreferenciados e GPS (sistema de posicionamento global) vêm se popularizando nas universidades e instituições públicas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pesquisadores do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (Inpe) querem capacitar mais professores, especialmente do ensino público, de todas as regiões do País, para que usem imagens espaciais em sala de aula. O Inpe desenvolve várias ações, como produção de material educativo e oferta de treinamento, focadas no ensino das geotecnologias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Outro objetivo é levar esse conhecimento para a população, na forma de serviços ambientais, para que ela possa compreender melhor como funcionam os mapeamentos, ajudando na preservação do espaço que ocupam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msnoticias.com.br/?p=ler&amp;amp;id=27234" target="_blank"&gt;ler o artigo na íntegra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-1260660572523359332?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/1260660572523359332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=1260660572523359332&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/1260660572523359332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/1260660572523359332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/brasil-geotecnologias-estao-presentes.html' title='Brasil: Geotecnologias estão presentes em pesquisas do Pantanal'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-6442132126993191320</id><published>2009-11-18T12:54:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-11-18T12:54:00.504Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mobile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='india'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eagri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital_divide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='es'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='asia'/><title type='text'>India: conexiones WiFi móviles en autobuses rurales</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 226px; height: 169px;" src="http://estaticos03.cache.el-mundo.net/elmundo/imagenes/2009/11/13/1258099683_0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;Un nuevo artículo señala que la empresa &lt;a href="http://www.unitedvillages.com/" target="_blank"&gt;United Villages&lt;/a&gt; ha implantado un sistema en la India gracias al cual es posible enviar y recibir correos electrónicos, mensajes de voz, fotos, hacer compras 'online', consultar servicios matrimoniales (algo muy importante en la India), y prácticamente todo lo que ofrece Internet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;La idea consiste en instalar puntos de acceso WiFi móviles en autobuses de pasajeros que hacen su ruta por la India profunda.  En cada aldea hay un quiosco de United Villages con los e-mails, etc. de los vecinos guardados en su disco duro.  Al pasar por allí el autobús, se establece la conexión y el intercambio de ficheros, de manera que basta con unos minutos (lo que dura la parada del autobús) para que se produzca el "milagro".&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2009/11/13/navegante/1258099683.html" target="_blank"&gt;Lea el artículo completo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-6442132126993191320?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/6442132126993191320/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=6442132126993191320&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/6442132126993191320'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/6442132126993191320'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/india-conexiones-wifi-moviles-en.html' title='India: conexiones WiFi móviles en autobuses rurales'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-3390039910318641954</id><published>2009-11-18T12:36:00.002Z</published><updated>2009-11-18T12:40:08.530Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='event'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='conference'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ifla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iaald'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='farmers'/><title type='text'>IFLA 2010 AgLibraries group: Current Trends in Agricultural Information Services for Farmers</title><content type='html'>The IFLA Agricultural Libraries Special Interest Group  in association with IAALD (International Association of Agricultural information Specialists) invites papers to be presented at a two-hour session to be held at the &lt;a href="http://www.ifla.org/en/ifla76" target="_blank"&gt;World Library and Information Congress&lt;/a&gt;: 76th IFLA General Conference at Gothenburg, Sweden, 10-15 August 2010. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Information needs of farmers  center  around the problems such as seeds, soil fertility, soil erosion, climatic conditions, fertilizers, pest hazards, weed control, water management, farm credit, post-harvesting, transportation, marketing and so forth. Timely provision of information is essential in solving these problems. However, the impact of agricultural research and innovations on farmers is not much either because they have no access to such vital information or it is poorly disseminated. Information provided is mainly focused on policy makers and researchers with little attention paid to the information needs of farmers. It is more so in developing countries and particularly small-scale farmers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This session is  aimed at discussing current trends in providing farmer-oriented information services in developed and developing countries. The issues to be addressed include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         How do agricultural research institutes and  universities in the country  cater to  the information needs of  farmers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         What strategies are being adopted by extension service providers to meet the  information needs of farmers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         How do private firms/agencies disseminate product based information to farmers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         What are the barriers and constraints in utilization of agricultural information by farmers in the country or region&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         How the  social networking tools, mobile phones, internet, and other information communication technologies are used by farmers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         How digital diagnostic services are provided to  farmers &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         Recent  developments in providing open access to agricultural extension bulletins &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         What role is being played by  international organizations such as USDA, FAO, CGIAR, DFID, CTA  in facilitating  transfer of agricultural information to  farmers&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Papers should be based on facts rather than theoretical aspects focusing on any of the facets. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Submissions&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interested authors are encouraged to  submit their proposal on any of these aspects for consideration. The deadline for submitting a detailed abstract (max 500 words) along with full author details is 31 December 2009. Full paper is due not later than  30 April 2010 and must be original not published elsewhere&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         Abstracts and full papers should be submitted by email&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         Papers should be of 10 pages maximum, single spaced &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         Papers should be in English with a one-page abstract&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         Each presenter would be allowed 15 minutes for a summary delivery of the paper followed  by clarifications and discussion&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         The presenter should not read the paper&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;·         The author(s) should indicate personal full contact details and include summary curriculum vitae with the paper &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please note that all fees, including registration to the conference, travel, accommodation etc. are the responsibility of the authors. &lt;br /&gt;On review of the abstracts, selected presenters will be notified by 15 February 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please submit your proposal by 31 December 2009 to :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Deva  Eswara Reddy, PhD&lt;br /&gt;Convener, IFLA Agricultural Libraries SIG&lt;br /&gt;Associate Professor of Library Science&lt;br /&gt;Texas A&amp;M University&lt;br /&gt;College Station, TX, USA&lt;br /&gt;E-mail: dereddy@tamu.edu&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-3390039910318641954?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/3390039910318641954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=3390039910318641954&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/3390039910318641954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/3390039910318641954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/ifla-2010-aglibraries-group-current.html' title='IFLA 2010 AgLibraries group: Current Trends in Agricultural Information Services for Farmers'/><author><name>IAALD Blogger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14957290018064496317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02567062487750598794'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-5305059556052539117</id><published>2009-11-18T00:30:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-11-18T00:30:00.428Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='early_warning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='disasters'/><title type='text'>Information and communications technology for disaster risk reduction</title><content type='html'>It is widely recognized that information and communications technology (ICT), including space-based technology, plays an important role in establishing effective early warning systems and success conducting emergency preparedness and response activities. Aimed at policy- and decision-makers from developing countries working on disaster risk reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region, this policy brief discusses useful infrastructure and applications and recommends actions on how to mainstream and enhance their use in disaster risk reduction efforts, in particular with respect to early warning systems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://zunia.org/post/information-and-communications-technology-for-disaster-risk-reduction/" target="_blank"&gt;Read the source article &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-5305059556052539117?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/5305059556052539117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=5305059556052539117&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/5305059556052539117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/5305059556052539117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/information-and-communications.html' title='Information and communications technology for disaster risk reduction'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-703786159283191942</id><published>2009-11-18T00:30:00.002Z</published><updated>2009-11-18T00:30:00.042Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='latin_america'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='extension'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brazil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><title type='text'>Brasil: Edital seleciona projetos inovadores em ensino e extensão rural</title><content type='html'>A falta de informação especializada é um dos gargalos enfrentados pelos pequenos produtores rurais. Com o objetivo de minimizar essa questão, o Ministério do Desenvolvimento Agrário (MDA) juntamente com parceiros abriu inscrições para seleção de projetos inovadores no ensino e aprendizagem em extensão rural, por meio do edital MCT/CNPq/MDA/SAF/Dater Nº 033/2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Também serão contemplados a geração de pesquisas voltadas para a construção e disponibilização de conhecimentos em tecnologias apropriadas para a agricultura familiar e na qualificação de técnicos extensionistas. Estão previstos R$13,5 milhões em milhões em recursos financeiros para a execução dos projetos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;De acordo com o coordenador da carteira de Apicultura do Sebrae, Reginaldo Rezende, os projetos inscritos irão beneficiar todos os setores do agronegócios. “A questão da extensão rural, de levar informação especializada para quem está no campo, é hoje considerado o grande desafio das as cadeias produtivas do agronegócio”, afirma. Já para o diretor do Dater, Argileu Martins da Silva, a parceria com o CNPq estabelece o elo efetivo de compatibilização entre pesquisa e extensão rural, permitindo que o conhecimento gerado esteja à disposição dos agricultores familiares.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.administradores.com.br/noticias/edital_seleciona_projetos_inovadores_em_ensino_e_extensao_rural/27484/" target="_blank"&gt;Ler o artigo na íntegra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-703786159283191942?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/703786159283191942/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=703786159283191942&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/703786159283191942'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/703786159283191942'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/brasil-edital-seleciona-projetos.html' title='Brasil: Edital seleciona projetos inovadores em ensino e extensão rural'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-9200419750889487122</id><published>2009-11-17T00:30:00.011Z</published><updated>2009-11-17T15:50:21.324Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rural_development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='latin_america'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mali'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eagri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brazil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital_divide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital_literacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burkina_faso'/><title type='text'>Web's Inventor Wants the Web to Improve Life of rural people</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 180px;" src="http://images.pcworld.com/news/graphics/129301-46_Tim_BernersLee.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;An article in &lt;a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/182217/bernerslees_foundation_wants_the_web_to_improve_life.html" target="_blank"&gt;PCWorld&lt;/a&gt; says that the World Wide Web Foundation, Tim Berners-Lee's latest brainchild, is now officially open for business and involved with two initial projects, as it embarks on using the Web to empower people worldwide and bring about positive socio-economic change.   &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berners-Lee, the Web's inventor and founder of the &lt;a href="http://www.webfoundation.org/" target="_blank"&gt;World Wide Web Foundation&lt;/a&gt;, will make the announcement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The formation of the group was announced last year. It is opening its doors with two programs respectively focused on leveraging Web technology to improve farming in Africa and teaching low-income young people how to create online content.   &lt;p&gt;The first project seeks to enlist local developers to build a Web-based platform for farmers in desert areas in Burkina Faso, Mali and other places. The idea is to help these farmers communicate better, share information, and learn and improve agricultural techniques.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The second project, in conjunction with the Brazil-based Center for Digital Inclusion, will develop training for young people in how to create Web content that can be accessed via mobile phones and include voice and graphics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/182217/bernerslees_foundation_wants_the_web_to_improve_life.html" target="_blank"&gt;Read the full article&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-9200419750889487122?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/9200419750889487122/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=9200419750889487122&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/9200419750889487122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/9200419750889487122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/webs-inventor-wants-web-to-improve-life.html' title='Web&apos;s Inventor Wants the Web to Improve Life of rural people'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-6150119568275580910</id><published>2009-11-17T00:30:00.010Z</published><updated>2009-11-17T15:47:50.048Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rural_development'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='latin_america'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eagri'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brazil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='internet'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital_divide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='es'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital_literacy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Burkina_faso'/><title type='text'>Inventor del Web busca mejorar las condiciones de vida (en zonas rurales)</title><content type='html'>El artículo en ComputerWorld reporta sobre dos proyectos que Berners-Lee, el inventor de la Web, anunciará el domingo en el Internet Governance Forum 2009 en Egipto.  Estos se centrarán en aprovechar la tecnología Web para mejorar la agricultura en África y enseñar a los más jóvenes cómo crear contenidos online.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El primer proyecto, realizado en colaboración con la Universidad de  Amsterdam, tiene como objetivo encontrar desarrolladores locales para crear una plataforma online para los agricultores de las zonas desérticas de Burkina Faso, Malí y otros lugares. La idea es ayudar a estos agricultores a comunicarse mejor, compartir información y aprender y mejorar sus técnicas agrícolas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El segundo proyecto, ejecutado junto al Centro para la inclusión digital de Brasil, pretende formar a los jóvenes para que sean capaces de crear contenido Web al que se pueda acceder a través de teléfonos móviles. Esta iniciativa se pondrá en marcha en cinco centros de los que dispone la comunidad en América Latina, Europa y Oriente Medio.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.idg.es/computerworld/Internet-para-mejorar-la-vida-/seccion-actualidad/noticia-87134" target="_blank"&gt;Leer el artículo completo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-6150119568275580910?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/6150119568275580910/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=6150119568275580910&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/6150119568275580910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/6150119568275580910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/inventor-del-web-busca-mejorar-las.html' title='Inventor del Web busca mejorar las condiciones de vida (en zonas rurales)'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-8963596890215830671</id><published>2009-11-16T00:30:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-11-17T15:47:28.500Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='latin_america'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='journals'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='open_access'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brazil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='embrapa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><title type='text'>Brasil: Portal de Periódicos da Capes</title><content type='html'>Pesquisadores, alunos de graduação e pós-graduação, usuários do conteúdo do &lt;a href="http://www.periodicos.capes.gov.br" target="_blank"&gt;Portal de Periódicos&lt;/a&gt; da &lt;a href="http://www.capes.gov.br" target="_blank"&gt;Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior&lt;/a&gt; (Capes), vão ter ao alcance das mãos muito mais facilidade, rapidez e interatividade sempre que precisarem de informação científica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A ferramenta, submetida a um processo de modernização durante um ano inteiro, garantirá acesso simplificado e conteúdo expandido no novo portal, atendendo assim às variadas áreas do conhecimento, superando, inclusive alguns dos principais portais científicos dos países mais desenvolvidos do mundo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A coordenadora do Sistema &lt;a href="http://www.embrapa.br" target="_blank"&gt;Embrapa&lt;/a&gt; de Bibliotecas (SEB), Rosângela Galon, já experimentou e aprova a novidade. "O portal ficou realmente muito mais fácil. Por meio da busca integrada, por exemplo, realizada por um metabuscador (MetaLib), é bem rápido encontrar o que se deseja", comenta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O SEB, subordinado à &lt;a href="http://www.sct.embrapa.br" target="_blank"&gt;Embrapa Informação Tecnológica&lt;/a&gt;, é o responsável pela aquisição bibliográfica e bases de dados internacionais para toda a empresa, assim como pela renovação do Convênio com a Capes para utilização do Portal de Periódicos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Com a nova ferramenta, o &lt;a href="http://www.periodicos.capes.gov.br" target="_blank"&gt;Portal de Periódicos&lt;/a&gt; da Capes passa a reunir novos conteúdos de acesso livre, passando de 15.475 periódicos para 21.500, mais a vantagem de oferecer maior uso do idioma português nos menus, janelas e abas de navegação, facilitando a pesquisa para usuários que não dominam outro idioma. Artigos, livros e patentes que acabaram de ser publicados também poderão ser consultados em tempo real.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O novo portal terá o sistema de busca integrada - que vai permitir pesquisa em todas as bases ao mesmo tempo – por palavras-chave, títulos, autores, iniciais do periódico e bases. Todas as pesquisas realizadas poderão ser salvas pelos pesquisadores, por meio de um cadastro de e-mail individual e senha da instituição.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Além destas novidades, no dia do aniversário do Portal será apresentada a Capes WebTV, em fase de implantação e destinada a oferecer às instituições participantes uma grade de programação que inclui treinamentos no uso do Portal de Periódicos e notícias e informações sobre a Capes, mais o conteúdo local produzido pelas próprias instituições. Todas as informações poderão ser acompanhadas em monitores de LCD instalados nos campi das instituições.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.agrosoft.org.br/agropag/212376.htm" target="_blank"&gt;ler o artigo na íntegra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-8963596890215830671?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/8963596890215830671/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=8963596890215830671&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/8963596890215830671'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/8963596890215830671'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/brasil-portal-de-periodicos-da-capes.html' title='Brasil: Portal de Periódicos da Capes'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-218561017529991534</id><published>2009-11-15T13:03:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-16T13:16:21.444Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='latin_america'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='precision_agriculture'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dominican_republic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='es'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><title type='text'>Agricultura de Precisión: tecnologías para optimizar los dones de la naturaleza</title><content type='html'>El uso de técnicas y tecnologías para un mayor aprovechamiento de recursos naturales como el agua y la tierra es cada vez más frecuente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En las actividades agrícolas, una estrategia que está siendo aplicada para alcanzar mayor rentabilidad y un uso óptimo de esos recursos es la agricultura de precisión, la que utiliza tecnología de información para recolectar desde distintas fuentes datos útiles que permitan apoyar decisiones asociadas a la producción de cultivos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El artículo brinda mayores detalles sobre la técnica y la experiencia aplicada en República Dominicana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.listindiario.com.do/app/article.aspx?id=120021" target="_blank"&gt;Lea el artículo completo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-218561017529991534?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/218561017529991534/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=218561017529991534&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/218561017529991534'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/218561017529991534'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/agricultura-de-precision-tecnologias.html' title='Agricultura de Precisión: tecnologías para optimizar los dones de la naturaleza'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-6072881005760822913</id><published>2009-11-14T15:54:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-11-17T14:04:34.673Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='latin_america'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='imark'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='training'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fao'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='social_media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='es'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reddelcampo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='panama'/><title type='text'>Panamá: Equipo de Red del Campo se capacita en redes y comunidades virtuales con aplicaciones web 2.0</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 176px; height: 108px;" src="http://www.reddelcampo.net/redcampo/images/stories/noticias/Rodrigo.JPG" alt="" border="0" /&gt;Los días 11, 12 y 13 de noviembre de 2009, inició la fase presencial del curso Construcción de Redes y comunidades virtuales con aplicaciones web 2.0 (basado en &lt;a href="http://www.imarkgroup.org/" target="_blank"&gt;IMARK&lt;/a&gt;), se está capacitando a un grupo de funcionarios pertenecientes a instituciones y organizaciones vinculadas al sector agropecuario como el IDIAP, MIDA, CIDAGRO.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rodrigo Donoso, consultor especialista en gestión de información de la FAO, explicó que el objetivo de este proyecto, es que los extensionistas, tecnicos y productores agropecuarios sean parte de los esfuerzos que desarrolla el gobierno para dar acceso libre a la información, mediante la creacion de una comunidad virtual, para que a su vez los miembros puedan obtener, incorporar y compartir sus conocimientos, experiencias y recursos con otros usuarios del mundo, las 24 horas del día.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Estas instituciónes trabajan para la modernización institucional en el que se desarrollan y  aprovechan las fortalezas de herramientas WEBs, como lo son: Twitter, RSS y Moodle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.reddelcampo.net/redcampo/index.php/component/content/article/400/400" target="_blank"&gt;Lea el artículo completo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-6072881005760822913?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/6072881005760822913/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=6072881005760822913&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/6072881005760822913'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/6072881005760822913'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/panama-equipo-de-red-del-campo-se.html' title='Panamá: Equipo de Red del Campo se capacita en redes y comunidades virtuales con aplicaciones web 2.0'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-1622063731911148059</id><published>2009-11-14T14:14:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-14T14:21:56.835Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='latin_america'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brazil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='embrapa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='libraries'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><title type='text'>Premiação do concurso das Minibibliotecas é entregue pela Embrapa em Brasília</title><content type='html'>O resultado dessa busca pelo conhecimento lhe rendeu o primeiro lugar no IV Concurso das Minibibliotecas, categoria Redação ensino fundamental. Nesta quinta-feira (22/10) ela esteve em Brasília (DF) para receber a premiação: certificado e um computador.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“O projeto das Minibibliotecas ajuda muito a gente. Os livros são úteis para ajudar na agricultura”, afirmou a menina.A escola vencedora foi a de Santa Catarina, que usou as Minibibliotecas para melhorar a segurança alimentar da comunidade indígena da região. “A nossa proposta foi melhorar seus hábitos alimentares”, explicou o professor Dirceu Mengale, responsável pelo projeto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minibibliotecas - O projeto Minibibliotecas da Embrapa foi criado em 2003, dentro das ações do Fome Zero. Inicialmente, foram implantadas unidades em escolas públicas localizadas em Municípios de baixo Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano (IDH), de oito Estados do Semi-Árido brasileiro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Atualmente, o projeto atende a mais de 1.350 instituições de ensino público em todo o Brasil. Cada unidade recebe um kit composto por 108 títulos de cartilhas, 40 de CDs e 38 de DVDs numa prateleira de ferro. A coleção é elaborada com o apoio das unidades da Embrapa e de organizações estaduais de pesquisa agropecuária com variados temas desde educação ambiental, agricultura a pecuária. O material varia de acordo com a realidade regional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O Concurso das Minibibliotecas tem o objetivo de estimular e reconhecer o trabalho desenvolvido por professores, alunos e comunidades a partir dos kits das Minibibliotecas.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-1622063731911148059?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/1622063731911148059/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=1622063731911148059&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/1622063731911148059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/1622063731911148059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/premiacao-do-concurso-das.html' title='Premiação do concurso das Minibibliotecas é entregue pela Embrapa em Brasília'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-8753979402919855017</id><published>2009-11-14T12:30:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-11-14T14:19:39.806Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='africa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital_divide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><title type='text'>Half of Africa's improved growth from ICT</title><content type='html'>A recent report indicates that Market liberalisation has encouraged massive private investment in Africa's cellular networks, according to a report released recently by the World Bank.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The result was a major revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), which helped boost economic growth to an annual 4 percent between 2001 and 2005, the report on Africa's infrastructure by the World Bank said.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"About half of Africa's improved growth performance in the early 2000s was attributable to this wireless revolution: one extra percentage point of growth per person per year."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, it identifies serious infrastructure gaps in the power, water and transport sectors, which reduced national economic growth by 2 percentage points every year, and cut business productivity by as much as 40 percent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The report describes how, between 1999 and 2006, the share of the African population living within range of a mobile signal mushroomed from 5 percent to 60 percent. Africa has a million new cellular subscribers, almost all on prepaid telephones. Signal coverage could profitably be expanded to cover over 95 percent of the population without any public subsidy, by reducing regulatory barriers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=561&amp;amp;fArticleId=5243133" target="_blank"&gt;Read the full report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-8753979402919855017?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/8753979402919855017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=8753979402919855017&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/8753979402919855017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/8753979402919855017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/half-of-africas-improved-growth-from.html' title='Half of Africa&apos;s improved growth from ICT'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-4008169842715618128</id><published>2009-11-13T12:05:00.007Z</published><updated>2009-11-13T12:45:03.399Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aaa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cgiar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='millionsfed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ifpri'/><title type='text'>Communicating a new research output: IFPRI strategies</title><content type='html'>What does it take to create a buzz around a new research output? Luz Marina Alvare and Chris Addison share some insights into the communication and knowledge-sharing approaches followed by IFPRI in launching a new book: &lt;a href="http://www.ifpri.org/millionsfed" target="_blank"&gt;Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agriculture&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This project has numerous audiences - media, agriculture and development policy workers, researchers and the public – and we had to create a suite of products that all of them could embrace while still meeting the needs of each group. To achieve this, we had to integrate the different media approaches and products from each communication unit and research area into one campaign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The core products are &lt;a href="http://www.ifpri.org/millionsfed" target="_blank"&gt;a book&lt;/a&gt; describing 20 cases from around the world showing success stories backed up by a series of discussion papers with case studies illustrating evidence that the interventions worked.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To communicate these issues to a broader audience and reinforce the communications process, we developed three further products:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a &lt;a href="http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/millionsfedbooklet_smaller.pdf" target="_blank"&gt;booklet&lt;/a&gt; highlighting the project as a whole and some of the key findings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzrFDJX4y4E" target="_blank"&gt;video trailer&lt;/a&gt; to accompany the book and draw attention to it&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a &lt;a href="http://www.ifpri.org/book-5826/millionsfed/video" target="_blank"&gt;full video&lt;/a&gt; summarizing the book as a whole and providing the most powerful presentation of key messages&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our plan - outlined in the diagram below - uses a variety of products to promote the key messages and generated various new products [click on the image for larger size].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iaald/4100620530/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 404px; height: 324px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2442/4100620530_0dc81e3e16.jpg" alt="click for larger size" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Following an analysis of the take up of recent IFPRI products, we confirmed our thinking that traditional Web channels are the most important for many of the audiences. The Web site is used as the main repository of the products and we measure Web site traffic to understand the effectiveness of our efforts. Using the title of the project ensures good indexing in Google and our own Web site features the products in key locations. Email campaigns appear to be the next most successful in bringing visits, not only through online email but also via direct visits from local email partners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking ahead, we see great potential in using infomediaries to promote to communities we cannot reach directly. Social media is also increasingly important.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Below is a snapshot of sources of overall visits prior to the media launch of the book  [click on the image for larger size]:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/iaald/4100620444/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img style="width: 405px; height: 265px;" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2773/4100620444_6ed7f70dc7.jpg" alt="click for larger size" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are monitoring our activities during the official media launch and will provide a follow up story of our findings on what worked and what didn’t. At the end of November, we will review how the product has been taken up through the Web, which approaches proved most valuable and review lessons learned.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;'Millions Fed' is a project aimed to identify and examine successes in agricultural development and provide insights into the lessons they offer. The Bill &amp;amp; Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) called upon the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to assess the evidence on what works in agriculture -- what sorts of policies, programs, and investments in agricultural development have actually reduced hunger and poverty.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-4008169842715618128?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/4008169842715618128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=4008169842715618128&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/4008169842715618128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/4008169842715618128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/communicating-new-research-output-ifpri.html' title='Communicating a new research output: IFPRI strategies'/><author><name>Peter Ballantyne</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15872634007456599311</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='10816008428852920117'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-2177324024102892490</id><published>2009-11-13T00:30:00.006Z</published><updated>2009-11-13T00:30:00.132Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='latin_america'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ICT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='argentina'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chile'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='traceability'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='livestock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='es aginfo'/><title type='text'>TICs aplicadas a la trazabilidad</title><content type='html'>Un &lt;a href="http://www.siia.gov.ar/index.php/mas/blog/93-las-tics-aplicadas-a-la-trazabilidad" target="_blank"&gt;artículo&lt;/a&gt; publicado por el Ministerio de Agricultura de Argentina señala que la trazabilidad consiste en la capacidad para reconstruir la historia, recorrido o aplicación de un determinado producto, identificando el origen de sus componentes, la historia de los procesos aplicados al producto, la distribución y localización después de su entrega. El objetivo es poder disponer de la información del producto a lo largo de toda la cadena alimentaría.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La trazabilidad otorga a los productores la posibilidad de colocar sus productos en mercados específicos más rentables, que exigen la certeza del origen y de las distintas etapas del proceso productivo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;El uso de las TICs permite vislumbrar nuevos temas como la trazabilidad integral y la transmisión y seguimiento en tiempo real de datos enviados a un celular o página de Internet. A su vez, la trazabilidad integral, surge una vez que conocidas las características de los suelos, los insumos aplicados, el rinde logrado y la calidad del producto.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En este tema un ejemplo, entre muchos otros, es el Proyecto &lt;a href="http://www.trazar.org.ar/" target="_blank"&gt;TRAZ.AR&lt;/a&gt;, desarrollado e implementado en Argentina como un sistema integrado para la gestión de la trazabilidad de las carnes bovinas capaz de gestionar la información de toda la cadena de valor.  El sistema a nivel de campo plantea la identificación mediante caravanas oficiales visuales y como complemento de la Identificación Electrónica animal a través de dispositivos de radiofrecuencia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cada establecimiento ganadero cuenta con un equipo portátil de captura de datos en el cual se registran todos los eventos relativos a animales individuales tales como nacimientos, movimientos, peso y sanidad, entre los principales. La información registrada, se envía a una la base de datos central donde se controlan y almacenarán los datos.   Los consumidores, a través de Internet, pueden acceder a la información referente al producto que consumen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;En otro ámbito, aplicado al mundo vitivinícola la trazabilidad permite conocer los pasos de todo el proceso de elaboración del vino, apuntando a mejorar la credibilidad sobre productos de exportación, y vinculándose a la calidad, donde juegan las prácticas enológicas. En este tema en Chile se diseñó un sistema especial para la trazabilidad del vino, que fue implantado en 45 viñas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.siia.gov.ar/index.php/mas/blog/93-las-tics-aplicadas-a-la-trazabilidad" target="_blank"&gt;Lea el artículo completo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-2177324024102892490?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/2177324024102892490/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=2177324024102892490&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/2177324024102892490'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/2177324024102892490'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/en-el-tema-trazabilidad-numerosas.html' title='TICs aplicadas a la trazabilidad'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-8768754605890481270</id><published>2009-11-12T04:01:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-12T04:01:00.653Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='en'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='forestry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fao'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='knowledge_sharing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><title type='text'>Weaving forest knowledge into development</title><content type='html'>&lt;img align="right" src="http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1222e/a1222e00.jpg" /&gt;A special issue of &lt;a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1222e/a1222e00.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Unasylva&lt;/a&gt; from 2007 looks back at 60 years of information and knowledge sharing in forestry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Articles in this issue include:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An editorial from 1952 on “&lt;a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1222e/a1222e06.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Spreading knowledge&lt;/a&gt;” indicates that the philosophy behind today’s “&lt;a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1222e/a1222e32.htm" target="_blank"&gt;knowledge organization&lt;/a&gt;” was already in place more than half a century ago.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Articles from the 1960s'on “&lt;a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1222e/a1222e09.htm" target="_blank"&gt;The electronic digital computer in forestry&lt;/a&gt;” and “&lt;a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1222e/a1222e10.htm" target="_blank"&gt;The promise of technology&lt;/a&gt;” reflect an optimistic period of history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 1990's, political changes in the 1990s also created new needs and concepts on how to make forestry extension effective were shifting &lt;a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1222e/a1222e22.htm" target="_blank"&gt;away from one-way offering&lt;/a&gt; of solutions. In 1997, the &lt;a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1222e/a1222e23.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Internet was a new tool&lt;/a&gt; for spreading information. All of these themes are represented in this issue.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is the influence of knowledge sharing? An article from 2000 examines the extent to which &lt;a href="http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a1222e/a1222e25.htm" target="_blank"&gt;seminal publications&lt;/a&gt; influence international or national forest policies by influencing conventional wisdom.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-8768754605890481270?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/8768754605890481270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=8768754605890481270&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/8768754605890481270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/8768754605890481270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/weaving-forest-knowledge-into.html' title='Weaving forest knowledge into development'/><author><name>IAALD Blogger</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14957290018064496317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02567062487750598794'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8308576.post-5489001097856228846</id><published>2009-11-11T00:30:00.000Z</published><updated>2009-11-11T00:30:00.652Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='paraguay'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='latin_america'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='digital_divide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='es'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='aginfo'/><title type='text'>Paraguay: OportuNet - un programa para reducir la brecha digital</title><content type='html'>Comenzó la tercera fase de OportuNet, proyecto ejecutado por la Fundación Paraguaya con fondos de USAID. El programa busca dar acceso a Internet a varios puntos rurales, así como capacitaciones y entrenamiento en liderazgo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OportuNet busca disminuir la brecha digital y facilitar el acceso al mundo especialmente a escuelas rurales, radios comunitarias, asociaciones indígenas y otros beneficiarios carentes de la capacidad de acceder a servicios de Internet y comunicación básica.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ultimahora.com/notas/268798-OportuNet,-un-programa-para-reducir-la-brecha-digital" target="_blank"&gt;Lea el artículo completo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8308576-5489001097856228846?l=iaald.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/feeds/5489001097856228846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=8308576&amp;postID=5489001097856228846&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/5489001097856228846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8308576/posts/default/5489001097856228846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://iaald.blogspot.com/2009/11/paraguay-oportunet-un-programa-para.html' title='Paraguay: OportuNet - un programa para reducir la brecha digital'/><author><name>Franz Martin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02362739674908504317</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='04618479614986821954'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></entry></feed>