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Innovative ICT tools for information provision in agricultural extension (December 2005)

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Title Innovative ICT tools for information provision in agricultural extension (December 2005)
 
Creator RAMAMRITHAM, KRITHI
BAHUMAN, ANIL
DUTTAGUPTA, SUBHASRI
BAHUMAN, CHAITRA
BALASUNDARAM, SRIVIDYA
 
Subject information management
administrative data processing
agriculture
communication
information retrieval
management information systems
 
Description aAQUA is an online multilingual, multimedia Agricultural portal for disseminating information from and to the grassroots of the Indian agricultural community. aAQUA simultaneously addresses two major challenges in farmer outreach programs - geographic reach and customized delivery. It answers farmers queries based on the location, season, crop and other information provided by farmers. aAQUA makes use of novel database systems and information retrieval techniques like intelligent caching, offline access with intermittent synchronization, semantic-based search, etc. Agricultural content repositories (Digital Library), Agri-price information (Bhav Puchiye), farmer schemes and various operations support databases (aAQUA-QoS) have also emerged from the experience of aAQUA deployments. aAQUA's large scale deployment provides avenues for researchers to contribute in the areas of knowledge management, cross- lingual information retrieval, and providing accessible content for rural populations. Apart from Agriculture, aAQUA can be configured and customized for Expert advice over mobile networks and the internet in Education, Healthcare and other domains of interest to a developing population. This paper will showcase the utility of various component databases built into aAQUA to enhance the QoS delivered to rural populations.
 
Publisher IEEE
 
Date 2009-06-13T06:38:53Z
2011-11-28T08:19:42Z
2011-12-15T09:57:36Z
2009-06-13T06:38:53Z
2011-11-28T08:19:42Z
2011-12-15T09:57:36Z
2006
 
Identifier Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Communication Technology and Development, Berkeley, CA, United states, 25-26 May 2006, 34-38
1424404851
10.1109/ICTD.2006.301834
http://hdl.handle.net/10054/1485
http://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/handle/10054/1485
 
Language en