Search for dissertations about: "mobile phone agriculture"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words mobile phone agriculture.

  2. 1. Creating opportunity by connecting the unconnected : mobile phone based agriculture market information service for farmers in Bangladesh

    Author : M. Sirajul Islam; Åke Grönlund; Rahul Dé; Örebro universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; ICT4D; agriculture market information service; design science research; mobile phones; farmers; technology acceptance; artifact design; Bangladesh; least developed countries; Informatics; Informatik; Informatik; Informatics;

    Abstract : This thesis is framed within the research area of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D), which is concerned with how ICT can make a difference to the lives of the poor. This study focuses primarily on mobile phones and how they can be used as part of an Agriculture Market Information Service (AMIS) in order to provide crucial information to farmers in Bangladesh. READ MORE

  4. 2. Does IT count? : complexities between access to and use of information technologies among Uganda's farmers

    Author : Caroline Wamala; Merete Lie; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Genus och teknik; Gender and Technology;

    Abstract : Drawn from a year of ethnographic fieldwork among farmers in Uganda, this study engages with developing an understanding on how access to and use of media and information technologies are negotiated in their separate profiles. Oftentimes the two entities, access and use, are laminated into one statistical representation, depicting both terms as either use or access. READ MORE