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• Strong farmer organisations • Staff development programmes • Information infrastructure investment Weaknesses • Mortality of farmers who have knowledge • Climatic changes • Dependency on government support • Government influence on employment issues • Weakness in ICT management/availability • Inadequate funding for ICM • Staff adaptation problems in a new technological era • Human capital flight Opportunities • Partnerships development • New technology acquisition for electronic information accessibility • Improved funding from government after Government of National Unity (GNU) formation • Improved cost recovery from students • Cooperating stakeholders • Department partners • Ability to work with national broadcasters Threats • Quality of information - staff leaving organisation • Other farmer organisations • Political problems • Competition form other radio stations • Lack of electronic information resources and ICT facilities • Limited funding Participant Task 3 – Working Group Reports Question: The aim of this task was to help the participants to identify major information and knowledge assets within their organisation and indicate the extent of their accessibility, usability, credibility and uniqueness. Feedback from group work: The following were the feedback from the group discussions and are not in a particular order: • Library o Accessibility - academics, students, general public, and the computer network. o Usability – people can borrow materials o Credibility – a credible one-stop information hub on agriculture o Uniqueness – able to subscribe to wide range of sources not held by any other local organisation • Archives o Accessibility – the National Archives Network o Usability – easy to use through Internet o Credibility – information is credible because of government source • Databases 20 | P age
Question: What information technologies are deployed within your organisation? For each of them identify: • The technologies • Those that are helpful and used? • Those technologies that are not so effective, and why? • Those technologies which might be useful but which are not fully utilised, and why? Summary feedback from working groups The following gives summary of the feedback from the working groups to the above question(s). Technologies Helpful/Used Not so Effective Might be Useful Computers • Processing documents • Database management Internet/Email • Research • Communication • Providing information on website • Sending file attachments • Manage and maintain mailing lists Mobile Phones • Short Message Service (SMS) • Communication • Marketing information Television/DVD • Marketing the organisation • Training • Information Landline Phone/Fax • Communication Scanners • Scan documents Video/Digital Cameras • Documentation and sharing farmers’ experiences Flash Discs • Moving/Transfer files Printers/Photocopiers • Develop hard copies for distribution 21 | P age Currently Head Office and Provincial offices are networked. The district offices where most of the Union’s activities take place are yet to have the facilities. Might need to fully extend the facilities to farming communities. No network coverage Participant Task 4 – Where and how do I get my information? Questions: 1. Where do you get your information? Which of the following are the most important to you in 2009? The Web (www) (general) The Web (specific, for example AGORA) Books Journals (hardcopy) Journals (electronic) Abstracts Colleagues in your organisation Colleagues in other organisation Other
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