Abstract
Farmers living in rural villages of Sri Lanka do not have proper access to information to make informed decisions about their livelihoods and as a result they face constant hardships in their lives. They use mobile phones to communicate but these are not currently connected to the Internet. We are investigating how to provide personalized information to farmers with the aim of empowering them to make informed decisions and take appropriate actions. In this paper we propose an empowerment model that has been designed to achieve their goals which have been identified using a scenario-based approach. The model examines several empowerment processes and supporting tools that would help them to achieve their goals with the hope that they would have an increased sense of control, self-efficacy, knowledge and competency. This empowerment model is applied to the development of a mobile based information system that is being developed by an international collaborative research group to address the issues of the farmers. Ginige and Richards
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | ACIS 2012: Location, Location, Location |
| Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems |
| Editors | John Lamp |
| Place of Publication | Melbourne |
| Publisher | Deakin University |
| Pages | 1-10 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781741561722 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| Event | 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2012 - Geelong, VIC, Australia Duration: 3 Dec 2012 → 5 Dec 2012 |
Other
| Other | 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2012 |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Geelong, VIC |
| Period | 3/12/12 → 5/12/12 |