ICTs: Digital Opportunities in Agricultural Extension
Contents: I. Historical Overview of Evolution of Communication. 1. Communication and information technology: A Historical perspective/S.N. Upadhyay. II. Basics of search engines and web design. 2. Web design methodology/Joytirmoy Sarkar. 3. Searching Internet for scholarly information/Joytirmoy Sarkar. III. Fundamentals of ICT applications. 4. e-Learning in extension systems: Empirical Study in Agricultural extension in India/Meera N. Shaik. 5. Conducting online researches in extension/Meera N. Shaik. 6. Information technology (IT) Application in Bench Mark Assessment and Project Monitoring/S.S. Dolli, J.S. Binkadakatti, B.N. Biradar. 7. ICT Mediated agricultural knowledge management: tools and processes for extension//Meera N. Shaik. 8. Expert Usability evaluation and learning audit of ICT Extension Tools : A Case of rice doctor//Meera N. Shaik, Magor Noel and Shires David. 9. Artificial Intelligence and its applications in agriculture/R.B. Mishra. 10. The world of social networking/Aditya and Basavaprabhu Jirli. 11. e-Readiness for extension professionals/Basavaprabhu Jirli and Dipak De. 12. m-Learning/ Basavaprabhu Jirli and Dipak De. IV. Digital Mediation in Agricultural Extension Services. 13. ICTs for Agricultural Extension: A Survey of Leading Models and a collation of best practices/Aditya. 14. ICT Mediated knowledge management in agriculture-India development gateway (InDG) Experiences/C. Kathiresan, Shri D.K. Jain. 15. ICTs Potentials in agricultural development/Dipak De and Basavaprabhu Jirli. 16. Role of ICT Mediated extension in India/T.P. Sastry. 17. Synthesis of ICT Enables extension approaches in India: Tactical synthesis to practical framework/Shaik N. Meera. 18. ICTs for agricultural extension initiatives in North-East India/R. Saravanan. 19. Agricultural and rural development in the information age: some critical concepts/Shaik N. Meera. 20. ICTs and empowerment of Indian rural women: What can we learn from on-going initiatives?/Rasheed Sulaiman V, N.J. Kalaivani, Nimisha Mittal and P. Ramasundaram. V. ICT Applications in allied sectsors. 21. ICT Mediated extension: applications in fisheries/J. Charles Jeeva. 22. Remote sensing applications in agriculture/K.N. Prudhvi Raju. 23. e-Governance and its role in agriculture and rural development in India/R.Roy Burman and Ram Bahal. 24. ICT for forecasting in agriculture/G.C. Mishra. VI. Legal aspects of ICT Applications. 25. Legal control of cyber crime in India/Golak Prasad Sahoo. 26. Information security concerns in IT- enabled services/K.K. Shukla. Appendices.
ICTs can act as bridge between the traditional and modern knowledge systems by integrating widely scattered and distributed references on Indian indigenous technical knowledge systems in retrieval form. The benefits of information society must be extended to less privilege areas throughout the world. The World summit on information Society (WSIS) attempts to make some international policies on this aspect.
The book entitled ICTs: Digital Opportunities in Agricultural Extension deals with pre-requisites for harnessing ICT potentials. This book also deals with fundamentals of ICT applications, search engine and web designing, digital mediation in agricultural sector, ICT applications in allied sectors and ICT and legal issues, thus the book helps in empowerment of extension fraternity through media education, dealing with the concepts related to empowerment, types of empowerment and empowerment through ICT application.
Most of the chapters of the book are outcomes of the lectures delivered at the winter school sponsored by ICAR. This book will fulfill the needs of ICAR’s restructured post-graduate (master’s and doctoral) course curricula and syllabi of extension education at the national level. The book is divided into six parts dealing with twenty six issues revolving around ICT and Agricultural Extension, each dealing with separate aspects. All these parts have been presented in a logical sequence.
