The Colloquium started off with Helani Galpaya giving a brief over view of the agriculture project. Harsha de Silva then went on to give a brief overview of the agriculture market as it is… today. The relevant market is limited to 2.3 million farmers. But even this is not the entire focud group as they have to be entreprenial farmers.
However, the volumes of exports of non plantation crops are extreemly small in comparison to tea. Sri Lanka is the largest exporter of cinnamon. However, China also produces a lower quality cinnamon produce. This proves that there is a great use for traceability. It is clear that the demand on the global market has changed. This is apparent in the demand for organic foods etc. Harsha…
It is well known that China polices the Internet content that its citizens can access. The story below talks about a growing movement within China that seeks to challenge these arbitrary restrictions on simple information retrieval and publishing actions. A 17-year old girl’s comment “I don’t know if it’s better to speak out or keep silent, but if everyone keeps silent, the truth will be buried,” seems particularly powerful to me and motivated me to write this post.
Several months ago, the government of Sri Lanka blocked access to Tamil Net, a website used by many, including almost all the important journalists, to find out the other side of our one-sided news stories on the war. Of course, this was easily circumvented by those who wanted…
Tags: Burma, CDMA, China, Congress, Faces Online Rebels - New York Times, firewall, Guangdong Province, Internet content, Kangxi, Pan Liang, phone networks, SMS, Sri Lanka, Web site operator, YouTube.
Campaign tools | A-twitter | Economist.com
Twitter imposes a 140-character-limit on all tweets. The choice is technical, not aesthetic; most mobile-service providers won’t carry text messages longer than 160 characters. This limit, as with any restricted poetic form, is a strength. Foreign correspondents in the first half of the 20th century learned to write in cablese, a series of abbreviations demanded by news organisations that had to pay by the word. Twitter, according to Ms Cox, forces the writer to think economically. “If I strip out the padding,” she says, “what’s my real point?” Twitter, she says, works best when puncturing a candidate’s own narrative. From Michigan she tweeted “Mitt [Romney] has so many things ‘in my bloodstream’ (cars, Michigan, business), you could make a v…
Telex | A faint ping | Economist.com
In March Britain’s BT will be the latest big company to cease offering telex services. “All good things come to an end,” says a spokesman. Britain will then join around 30 countries including Austria, Germany and Russia that no longer provide telex through their national telecoms operators.But that clears the way for nimble, low-cost competitors. These have turned round the technology. As well as maintaining the old-fashioned service involving terminals and dedicated lines, they provide telex services both over phone lines and over the internet—in effect, making it a secure and ultra-reliable variant of e-mail. One, SwissTelex, is a spin-off from the Swiss national telecoms operator that offers international telex services and has taken over BT’s network. Another is…
21 - 23 February 2008 at Kandalama Hotel, Kandalama, Sri Lanka
LIRNEasia hosted a Workshop to discuss the policy level implications and business level possibilities of using ICTs to reduce transaction costs in the agricultural value chain as well as to improve traceability and enhance quality of products sold. The Workshop brought together key stakeholders consisting of policy makers, private and public sector participants and researchers, both in agriculture and ICT. It was based on the pilot projects conducted by LIRNEasia in 2007, which was discussed in detail at the Workshop.
All presentations made at the Workshop can be found below:
Traceability: International Perspective - Visoot Phongsathorn
Linking Sri Lankan farmers to global markets - Dr. Harsha de Silva
Traceability in agricultural markets - Shamistra Soysa
Benefits of ICT applications to farmers with emphasis…
transaction-costs.pdf
traceabilityv3.pdf
Please note that a Colloquium will be held on Tuesday the 5th of February to review the presentations that will be delivered at the Agriculture Workshop from the 21st - 23rd of Feb
The Colloquium will be conducted by Shamistra Soysa, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and Harsha de Silva.
The Colloquium will be blogged in live time and I urge those who cannot attend to participate virtually.
The Colloquium will commence at 4 p.m (SL/ India time) and will be held at the LIRNEasia office in Colombo.
The Colloquium will be be available for online participation through a conference call on Skype
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