The ICT arm of Sri Lanka’s largest community-based organization, Sarvodaya, launched its FarmerNet initiative last month. They have been kind enough to mention that the initiative had been triggered by a LIRNEasia presentation at a National Telecenter Alliance event. As an organization committed to catalysis, we are gratified. And we wish them well.
The premise of the initiative is to create an efficient marketplace, using information technology to reduce transaction costs. The buyers and sellers can exchange information about produce efficiently while bypassing middlemen. FarmerNet is a culmination of a journey that started by Sarvodaya- Fusion in 2006 with the partnership of volunteers, industry experts, and NGOs. A brief time line:
* 2006 – Fusion set up Agri-clinic project, as part of the Village Information Centre (VIC) initiative. Initial feedback suggested farmers were overwhelmed by the complexity of using available IT systems.
* 2007 – Potential of a mobile based solution was first surfaced at a presentation by LIRNEasia at National Telecentre Alliance conference.
3 Comments
harsha de silva
“the premise of the initiative is to create an efficient marketplace using information (should add and communication) technology to reduce transaction costs” sounds very familiar! no further comments on this.
Unknown
The ICT arm of Sri Lanka’s largest community-based organization, Sarvodaya, is very good at taking credit for other peoples’ work…no further comment on this.
Goviya
Using ICT for farmers sounds good on paper but so far no one in SL has been able to do anything convincing.
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