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Socio-economic impact of mobile phones on agriculture in LDC's

Hello All,

I work for The Department for International Development (DFID) and I am also  a postgraduate student at Birkbeck, University of London, where I am completing a MSc. in International Business and Development.  I am currently writing my dissertation on the socio-economic impact of mobile phones on smallholder farmers.
I am seeking to discover how mobile technology such as SMS, helplines, information services and the Internet have made a difference in the following areas: 
- Increasing access to financial services (mobile banking)
- Supplying agricultural information
- Increasing data visibility for supply chain efficiency
- Improving access to markets
To this end I have completed the following survey which I would like to invite you to complete by 19 Sept and share as widely as possible:
-Survey for providers of mobile services in agriculture: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NHMZTT5
-Survey for users of mobile services in Agriculture in developing countries: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NXFXMYJ

 

I would be very grateful for your response,
Best regards
Marsha

Tags: ICT, LDC, access, agriculture, chain, dissertation, economic, farmers, gender, help, More…information, markets, masters, mobile, phones, poverty, supply, survey, technology, telephony, thesis, value

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Marsha:

It is great to meet you.  I'm doing research on the security side of the issues mobile phone & banking in the developed and developing worlds.  I use the ICT4D acronym to characterize my research.  

I'd like to learn more about your work in the ag sector.  

Jane 

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