Saravanan, R., (2010), (Ed.) ICTs for Agricultural Extension: Global Experiments, Innovations and Experiences, New India Publishing Agency (NIPA), New Delhi.
About the Book: Integration of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are rapidly transforming the agricultural extension. The ICT enabled extension systems are acting as a key agent for changing agrarian situation and farmers’ lives improving access to information and sharing knowledge. ICT based agricultural extension brings incredible opportunities and has the potential of enabling the empowerment of farming communities. Extension practitioners are excited to experiment innovative ICT initiatives. Experiences on “ICTs for Agricultural Extension” initiatives are showing encouraging results and also complementing conventional extension communication methods. At the same time, it is also a challenge to place rural ICT infrastructure, developing appropriate content, ensuring sustainability and scaling-up. This book is an attempt to document the National Policy on ICTs in agricultural extension, ICT infrastructure scenario and related issues, case studies on innovative ICTs for agricultural extension initiatives (Village knowledge centres, information kiosks, mobile ICT units, web portals, digital data base and networks, rural tele-centres, farmer call centres, mobile telephony, video-conference, offline multimedia CDs, decision support systems, expert systems, innovative community radio and television programmes, open distance learning etc.,), lessons and way forward in the countries such as Bangladesh, Caribbean Nations (Antigua & Barbuda, Belize, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St.kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago), Greece, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi), Sudan, Trinidad & Tobago and Zimbabwe.
Book Review Prof. Colle, Royal D. Cornell University, USA, published in the Journal of Development Communication, Vol. 22, No. 1, June 2011. https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-279462004/r-saravanan-ed-icts-for-agricultural-extension
Book Review Timothy L. Koehnen, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e AltoDouro , Portugal, published in the Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, Vol. 17, No. 5 , October 2011. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1389224X.2011.624714
