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The
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO),
governments, and other international agencies implemented
a strategic Programme entitled Bridging the Rural Digital
Divide (BRDD). This programme is now closed.
The
programme highlights innovative approaches to knowledge exchange
that take advantage of new digital technologies, and that
are based on synergies between information management and
communication for development. The conceptual basis for the
programme has drawn particularly on Livelihoods Approaches.
The
programme brings relevant expertise and resources from across
the international development community into a more coherent
and systematic approach. Innovators in many parts of the world
are already developing initiatives which, if brought together,
will have greater potential than if they remain isolated or
fragmented.
The
programme objectives are:
- to
increase the availability of information content related
to rural areas in digital form.
- to
develop innovative mechanisms and processes for information
exchange and communication; and
- to
establish networks and communities of practice in information
and communication for development and for exchange of information
on agriculture and rural development.
FAO
now supports e-agriculture.org
- a NEW global initiative to enhance sustainable agricultural
development and food security by improving the use of information,
communication, and associated technologies in the sector.
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