A model for enhancing empowerment in farmers using mobile based information system

Tamara Ginige; Deborah Richards

A model for enhancing empowerment in farmers using mobile based information system

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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
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

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Other	23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2012
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Geelong, VIC
Period	3/12/12 → 5/12/12

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Ginige, T & Richards, D 2012, A model for enhancing empowerment in farmers using mobile based information system. in J Lamp (ed.), ACIS 2012: Location, Location, Location: Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems. Deakin University, Melbourne, pp. 1-10, 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems, ACIS 2012, Geelong, VIC, Australia, 3/12/12.

A model for enhancing empowerment in farmers using mobile based information system. / Ginige, Tamara; Richards, Deborah.
ACIS 2012: Location, Location, Location: Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems. ed. / John Lamp. Melbourne: Deakin University, 2012. p. 1-10.

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