robert fitzgerald, phd

As part of the Knowledge Systems in Rural Areas series, GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft for Technische Zusammenarbeit) has recently published a report exploring the potential of Web 2.0 platforms for networking and knowledge exchange in agriculture and rural development. This publication documents latest developments in this area and our project using sms in Cambodia is featured in "Cambodian Farmers Turn to their Phones". Download the full report (pdf).

We are getting quite a bit of interest in our sms work in Cambodia using FrontlineSMS. Ken Banks has written about it in Cambodian farmers turn to their phone, MobileActive.org in Frontline SMS Review and Internet & Democracy Project at Harvard University in Frontline SMS Launches New Version, Continues to Foster Change. In late November 2008 we presented our ideas to the Northwest Agricutural Marketing Association (Battambang, Cambodia) for the development of a sms-based field communications and information system (full presentation). More.