Integration of ICTs in Radio Programs (II-RP) for Environmental Awareness for Peasant Farmers of Rural Zambia

2021 ◽  
pp. 243-262
Author(s):  
Tracy Chisanga ◽  
Jameson Mbale
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Awareness Information ◽  
Crop Diseases ◽  
Radio Programs ◽  
Rural Zambia ◽  
Peasant Farmers

The radio was the most and only reliable media capable of disseminating remedial information for methods of curing and preventing the outbreak of animal and crop diseases. However, this mode of media faced the challenges of majority of peasant farmers not owning radios, and as a result, they did not access such services. In addition, the distance among the peasant farmers hindered people sharing such resources. Nevertheless, the mushrooming owning of mobile phones by the majority of peasant farmers made information sharing possible. It was in view of that that the integration of ICTs on radio programs, in this work abbreviated as II-RP, was envisaged to disseminate remedial information to peasant farmers in remote areas of Zambia. The II-RP, a mobile built system, allowed farmers and agriculture officers to share the awareness information and sensitization of methods of farming.

Integration of ICTs in Radio Programs (II-RP) for Environmental Awareness for Peasant Farmers of Rural Zambia

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-42
Author(s):  
Tracy Chisanga ◽  
Jameson Mbale
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Awareness Information ◽  
Crop Diseases ◽  
Radio Programs ◽  
Rural Zambia ◽  
Peasant Farmers

The radio was the most and only reliable media capable of disseminating remedial information for methods of curing and preventing the outbreak of animal and crop diseases. However, this mode of media faced the challenges of majority of peasant farmers not owning radios, and as a result, they did not access such services. In addition, the distance among the peasant farmers hindered people sharing such resources. Nevertheless, the mushrooming owning of mobile phones by the majority of peasant farmers made information sharing possible. It was in view of that that the integration of ICTs on radio programs, in this work abbreviated as II-RP, was envisaged to disseminate remedial information to peasant farmers in remote areas of Zambia. The II-RP, a mobile built system, allowed farmers and agriculture officers to share the awareness information and sensitization of methods of farming.

A Service Architecture for Mobile Teamwork

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 447-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Engin Kirda ◽  
Harald Gall
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Personal Digital Assistant ◽  
Motion Platform ◽  
Service Architecture ◽  
Mobile Information ◽  
Actual Location

Mobile teamwork has become an emerging requirement in the daily business of large enterprises. Employees collaborate across locations and need team support while they are on the move. Business documents and expertise need to be shared independent of the actual location or connectivity (e.g., access through a mobile phone, laptop, Personal Digital Assistant, etc.) of employees. Although many collaboration tools and systems exist, most do not deal with new demanding requirements such as locating artifacts and experts through distributed searches, advanced information subscription and notification, and mobile information sharing and access. The MOTION service architecture that we have developed supports mobile teamwork by taking into account the different connectivity modes of users, provides access support for various devices such as laptop computers and mobile phones, and uses XML meta data and the XML Query Language (XQL) for distributed searches and subscriptions. In this article, we describe the architecture and the components of our generic MOTION services platform for building collaborative applications. The MOTION platform is currently being evaluated in two large industry case-studies.

Spatial Information Sharing for Mobile Phones

2002 ◽  
pp. 331-342
Author(s):  
Hiroshi Tsuji ◽  
Masato Terada ◽  
Yuki Kadowaki ◽  
Masaaki Tanizaki ◽  
Shigeru Shimada
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Spatial Information Sharing

Persistent connection and participation: New media use in post-peace movement Ambon, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (8) ◽  
pp. 1787-1803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Rohman
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
New Media ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Peace Movement ◽  
Continuity And Change

The use of new media platforms has been evident in social movements at local, regional, and international levels. Many studies have shown that these platforms are tools to mobilize resources, facilitate coordination and information sharing, and access a wider audience. These studies, however, have been situated in the periods when the movements rise and peak, giving little attention to the use of such platforms in the post-movement phase. Based on interviews and participant observation of a peace movement in Ambon, Indonesia, this research found that the peace movement actors use Facebook, Twitter, Path, WhatsApp, SMS, and mobile phones for maintaining existing relationships, reanimating memories, keeping up with current movements, amplifying ongoing movements, and sharing new grievances. The platforms provide the actors with opportunities to sustain their existing networks. Hence, the movement persists and influences later movements. The findings offer the potential to better understand the continuity and change of technologically enabled social movements.

scholarly journals Mobile phones in the spread of unreliable information on Twitter: evidence from the 2017 French presidential campaign

2020 ◽  
pp. 205015792097215
Author(s):  
Julien Figeac ◽  
Pierre Ratinaud ◽  
Nikos Smyrnaios ◽  
Guillaume Cabanac ◽  
Ophélie Fraisier-Vannier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Sharing ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Political Community ◽  
External Information ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Political News ◽  
Types Of Information ◽  
Sharing Behavior

This article analyzes the spread of unreliable information on Twitter during the 2017 French presidential campaign, focusing on the use of mobile phones with regard to information-sharing behavior. The corpus is composed of 38,346,765 tweets, posted by 2,163,812 supporters of the five main French political parties, from November 25, 2016 to May 12, 2017. We examine more precisely a sub-corpus of tweets (13,044,619) containing links to external information sources, in order to evaluate the different types of information sources and their reliability. Our research shows that information-sharing behavior within Twitter in France is generally based on reliable information sources, produced by journalists and professional media. However, we highlight that smartphone users tended to share a greater amount of user-generated content, as well as articles from a wider range of alternative political information sources (blogs, activists’ websites); such sources were most likely to publish unreliable information. Thus it appears that users of mobile phones tend to share more unreliable news than those who use Twitter from a computer web browser. Further, we show that this “device effect” on the spread of unreliable information is primarily amplified among the practices of one political community—namely, the far-right party and its network of supporters—which is more likely to organize debate around a larger number of unreliable references. We are claiming here that the design-based interoperability of these unreliable political news and social media applications helps to understand why the French far-right community shared more unreliable information from the Twitter application.

scholarly journals Drivers and Barriers of Mobile Phone Remanufacturing Business in Indonesia: Perspectives of Retailers

2019 ◽  
Vol 130 ◽  
pp. 01006
Author(s):  
Didik Wahjudi ◽  
Shu-san Gan ◽  
Yopi Yusuf Tanoto ◽  
Jerry Winata ◽  
Benny Tjahjono
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Product Knowledge ◽  
Competitive Price ◽  
Operational Issues ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Theoretical Side

Remanufacturing is deemed to be effective in reducing WEEE. Existing studies on remanufacturing mostly focus on operational issues, product acquisition, and pricing. However, some doubts about remanufacturing business arise in developing countries, where there is less regulation on remanufacturing and less environmental awareness. This study aims to investigate the prospects of remanufacturing business from the retailers' perspectives through in-depth interviews on three retailers in Surabaya, Indonesia. The main drivers for mobile phone remanufacturing business are its affordable and competitive price, big demand for popular mobile phones and high-end mobile phone, the opportunity for specification upgrade, and its suitability with the needs of Indonesian people. The main barriers for remanufacturing business are the possibility for cannibalizing new mobile phones' market share, the uncertainty of core supply, discontinuity of replacement part supply, lack of product knowledge among consumers and retailers, hesitation of retailers to sell remanufactured products, and lack of strict and clear regulations about remanufacturing business. Findings of this study provide insights to prospective mobile phone remanufacturers of what needs to be tackled to start a prosperous business. On the theoretical side, it provides complementary knowledge to existing studies that have been conducted mostly on countries that have higher environmental awareness.

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