Guntuku DileepkumarGlobal Leader, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation, ICRISAT

Director, Center of Excellence in ICT Innovations for AgricultureCoordinator, ICRISAT South-South Initiative

Email: g.dileepkumar@icrisat.org

“Demand-Driven and Need-based Content Development”

From Africa and Asia to Latin America and the Near East, there are 805 million people in the world who do not get enough food to lead a normal, active life.

We can achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. In the world today, we have the knowledge, tools and policies to feed everyone.

The Biggest Challenge

The Looming Perfect Storm

The only global R4D organization for semi-arid agriculture

VisionA prosperous, food-secure and resilient dryland tropicsMissionTo reduce poverty, hunger, malnutrition and environmental degradation in the dryland tropics

ICRISAT Locationsin the Semi-arid Tropics

55 countries6.5 million sq km2.5 billion people

Headquarters-Patancheru, Telangana, India

ESARegional

Hub-Nairobi, Kenya

WCARegional

Hub- Bamako, Mali

Inclusive Market-Oriented Development (IMOD)

IMOD: A new approach

Harness Markets

Manage Risks

Knowledge Sharing and Innovation

• CGIAR Research Programs

• ICRISAT Research Programs

• Critical Focus Areas

Improves ICRISAT Capability to inform, dialogue with, and serve its stakeholders

Data Services

Information Services

Education Services

Innovations

Foster Greater Convergence between research and its

utilization in AR4D

Enhancing Research

Improving Operational Efficiency

Capacity Building

Enhancing Impact

Facilitating Cultural Change

Facilitating information exchange, linkages, PPP

Provides a platform to bring ICT innovations in Agriculture by integrating science, technology and value chain approaches (Farm to Fork)

Center of Excellence in ICT Innovations for Agriculture

… many more

Advances in ICTs and Social Media

By June 30,2014 Facebook boasted 1.32 billion monthly active users worldwide.

829 m users on average log on to Facebook daily, as of June 2014.

• More than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube each month • Over 6 billion hours

of video are watched each month on YouTube—that's almost an hour for every person on Earth, 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute

Number of pages: 32,605,026Number of articles: 4,486,786Number of files: 828,078Number of edits: 706,393,946Number of Users: 21,085,515Number of admins: 1,416

Agriculture and Rural Development organizations must take advantage of contemporary ICT tools and platforms

Digital resources provide potential opportunities

630,427 downloads from 125 countries

http://dataverse.icrisat.org/dvn Above 465 data files in more than 10 Dataverse with 60 studies are available in Dataverse

Open Data Repository

Building Classrooms in Knowledge Cloud for Next GenerationPromote Massive Open Online Courses for Agricultural Professionals

Agriculture and Allied Areas In 1960s, the establishment of Agricultural Universities in India, on the pattern

similar to that of the Land Grant colleges of the United States (integration of education, research and extension), contributed a lot in boosting the agricultural growth from 51 million tons in 1950 to about 257.13 million tons (MT) in 2013-14.

The model has shown a direction in reorganizing and strengthening the agricultural education system in India and also helped in bringing diverse subjects in the course curriculum integrating provision of hands-on practical exposure to the student.

Now, the percentage of students pursuing agriculture as an undergraduate or a post graduate degree or PhD, remains amongst the lowest as a comparison to the other streams (All India Survey on Higher Education, MHRD). Reasons…

Outdated curriculum, Unavailability of good quality faculty members Requirement of reorienting the agricultural education

according to the changing scenarios at national and international level etc.

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Evolution of Classroom

Next Generation

Traditional Classroom trainings Vs ICT mediated Trainings’

Traditional Classroom Trainings‘2013

Investments 1 million USDReach is 407 participants

AgED Open Course Ware - 2014

Investments USD 900Reach is 6330 learner participants from 180+ countriesFrom Jan to Oct 2014

One Agriculture-One Science: A Global Education consortium

July 17-18, 2014, University of Florida, FloridaSep 4, 2014, ICRISAT, IndiaOct 16, 2014, World Food Prize Symposium, IOWA

Virtual Knowledge Series Platform

Knowledge Repository

Launch of National Virtual Academy for Indian AgricultureSeptember 4, 2014 ICRISAT Campus, Patancheru

Classroom without WallsICT Literacy

(especially on MOOCs)

Internal Students/ Employees

External Students/ Partners

OER, 3rd Party Apps

EdCastMobile App

EdCastMobile App

LMS/ MOOC sites

Import/Export

Employers

KNOWLEDGE CLOUDTM

Arch CS Sust “Pre-Enroll Preparedness”“Post-Enroll Readiness”

Institutions/ Instructors

Security

National Virtual Academy for

Indian Agriculture

Knowledge Cloud Architecture

Participatory Extension Videos

Content Generation in VKC Model

Content Generation in M4D Approaches

Mobile for Development

Expert – FarmerFarmer – ExpertExpert - Expert

Transforming Rural Youth into Info entrepreneurs'

Categorization of Content (16): over GreenSIM

Agriculture

Horticulture

Animal husbandry

Floriculture

Poultry

Irrigation

Fertilizers

Insurance

Banking

Rural health

Government schemes

Market prices

Sericulture

Farmer livelihood

Soil health

Co-operative

Farmers can retrieve the missed voice messages by dialing 53435

Transforming Rural Youth into Info entrepreneurs'

Case 1: Personalized Content Generation

Case 1: Personalized Content Generation

Case 1: Personalized Content Generation

Personalized Recommendations

Case 1: Personalized Content Generation

Knowledge Bank - Soils

Experimental hubs: Content Validation AMS, Women Federation

Organization, Mahabubnagar

RDT, Non Governmental Organization, Ananthpur

Government, Karnataka

Feedback received from farmers

Narmadamma, farmer from Addakal village

Chandrakala, farmer from Addakal village

“Last time our whole groundnut crop was destroyed due to unexpected rain, but this season a voice message received from Krishi Vani on weather forecast saved our crop as we were able to harvest three days ahead of the original harvest date. It saved us our season-long efforts and hard work.”

“We used to take advices and recommendations from agricultural input dealers and received mixed results. But now

with ICRISAT’s Krishi Gyan Sagar – personalized information advisory services, we are getting precise application

recommendations in our farms. It saves money and gives us better yield and income.”

These are two of the 40,000 farmers in 171 villages of India, taking benefits of the Krishi Gyan Sagar and Krishi Vani – Powered by the Green SIM project

Voices of Farmers: Impacts

Emerging Paradigm

What is next: Knowledge to the Poor revolution

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GreenPHABLET powered by the GreenSIM

Knowledge to the Poor Revolution through ICT Innovations for a food secure future

Use and Sustain ICT Innovations for establishing effective linkages between

Research – Extension – Education – Markets