EUP1501 CRUNCH TIME GUIDE
1. Can ICTs be innovatively used in the absence of minimum literacy levels among the
poor?
Yes ICTs can be innovatively used in the absence of minimum literacy level among the poor.
Because sometimes in order to use some of the ICT items; it doesn’t really mean that one
has to be ‘’that’’ educated. If we can look at the use of items such as cell phones, radio and
Television, even if you are poor and illiterate, those are usually things that the illiterate
people don’t need to go and get a proper education for knowing how to operate them.
Freedom of expression and the right to information are supported by these ICT items: cell
phones, radio and television, and they all increase access to information even to poor
farmers. Hence the insightful design of many technologies and their capacity that convey
information visually or audibly make it useful to people with limited formal education or
exposure to technology. With the introduction of ICT, it has become possible for common
people to access global information. Information in a broader sense includes oral
communication broadcasting (television), voice (radio) and text (cell phones). The illiterate
doesn’t need to be educated to text massages, switch the radio and television on and off and
in changing the stations and channels.
HOW
Through cell phones.
In resource-constrained environments especially, providers use satellites or remote
sensors (to gather temperature data) and mobile phones (to publicize temperature
information to isolated farmers cheaply)—to prevent crop losses and moderate
effects from natural adversities.
Simple accounting software in the mobile cell phones which are calculators will allow
cooperatives to manage production, aggregation, and sales with increased accuracy.
Cameras and video can be used as training materials to raise the quality of
production.
The democratization of information will include the open access movement and
social media in which farmers use SMSs to send critical local agricultural information
like incidences of pests or crop yields.
SMSs and other service providers can offer mobile banking, other transactional
services (selling inputs, for example), and information services (market price alerts).
Through Radio and Television.
ICTS can empower poor farmers with information and communication resources and
services that will increase their productivity and incomes as well as protect their food
security and livelihood.
1. Can ICTs be innovatively used in the absence of minimum literacy levels among the
poor?
Yes ICTs can be innovatively used in the absence of minimum literacy level among the poor.
Because sometimes in order to use some of the ICT items; it doesn’t really mean that one
has to be ‘’that’’ educated. If we can look at the use of items such as cell phones, radio and
Television, even if you are poor and illiterate, those are usually things that the illiterate
people don’t need to go and get a proper education for knowing how to operate them.
Freedom of expression and the right to information are supported by these ICT items: cell
phones, radio and television, and they all increase access to information even to poor
farmers. Hence the insightful design of many technologies and their capacity that convey
information visually or audibly make it useful to people with limited formal education or
exposure to technology. With the introduction of ICT, it has become possible for common
people to access global information. Information in a broader sense includes oral
communication broadcasting (television), voice (radio) and text (cell phones). The illiterate
doesn’t need to be educated to text massages, switch the radio and television on and off and
in changing the stations and channels.
HOW
Through cell phones.
In resource-constrained environments especially, providers use satellites or remote
sensors (to gather temperature data) and mobile phones (to publicize temperature
information to isolated farmers cheaply)—to prevent crop losses and moderate
effects from natural adversities.
Simple accounting software in the mobile cell phones which are calculators will allow
cooperatives to manage production, aggregation, and sales with increased accuracy.
Cameras and video can be used as training materials to raise the quality of
production.
The democratization of information will include the open access movement and
social media in which farmers use SMSs to send critical local agricultural information
like incidences of pests or crop yields.
SMSs and other service providers can offer mobile banking, other transactional
services (selling inputs, for example), and information services (market price alerts).
Through Radio and Television.
ICTS can empower poor farmers with information and communication resources and
services that will increase their productivity and incomes as well as protect their food
security and livelihood.
