Design for Empowerment: Empowering Sri Lankan Farmers through Mobile-based Information System

Ginige, Tamara; Richards, Deborah; Ginige, Athula; Hitchens, Michael

doi:10.17705/1cais.04619

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“…Considering psychological empowerment, the values of the associated coefficients with the cell phone use and knowledge empowerment, which explain psychological empowerment, are positive and promote to deepen in the direction of causality among these variables. Hence, farmer's motivation and fulfillment, through agricultural work, can be in favor to technological information access and communication as a means of cultural, social and productive linkages as was pointed out by Aker and Mbiti (2010), Ginige and Richards (2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The author sought the factors that affect the well-performance of the farmer's operations, and whether the technological use, as an empowerment strategy, helped increase productivity, which was indeed confirmed. Ginige and Richards (2012) show another empowerment model, which was used for evaluating the farmers. They were empowered through technology, especially, with an agricultural system that facilitated farmer's operations.…”

Section: Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Competitive Risaralda, generating research alliances for development

Betancur¹,

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Restrepo³

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El presente libro lleva como título “Risaralda competitiva, generando alianzas en investigación para el desarrollo”, resultado del V encuentro de investigadores del departamento de Risaralda realizado en el mes de noviembre del año 2020. Evento en el cual se presentaron las últimas investigaciones realizadas en las diferentes instituciones educativas del departamento; quienes hacen parte de la Mesa de Investigaciones de Risaralda; ejercicio de gran interés que arroja resultados de investigaciones en diferentes áreas como son las Ciencias Agrícolas, Ciencias sociales, Ciencias de la salud, Ciencias de la tecnología y la información.

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Competitive Risaralda, generating research alliances for development

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Arcila²,

Restrepo³

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“…The data points captured from the farmer and derived from DAE are tabulated in Table 5. DAE facilitates farmers to maintain a crop diary while empowering them to complete tasks with accurate information [76,77]. Thus, each farmer's expected production levels for each crop can be calculated using the farm extent and yield per acre according to season and location as specified in PoP.…”

Section: Digital Agrifood Ecosystem (Dae)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart Agricultural Futures Market: Blockchain Technology as a Trust Enabler between Smallholder Farmers and Buyers

Kumarathunga¹,

Calheiros²,

Ginige³

2022

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Smallholder farmers produce over 70% of the world’s food needs. Yet, the socioeconomic conditions of the smallholder farmers are substandard. One of the primary reasons for this unpropitious situation is that they generate modest income by selling their harvest due to the lack of trusted buyers and organized markets. This research explores how technology can enable the trust to reduce transaction-related risks, empowering unknown parties to transact. Blockchain technology has the potential of mitigating transaction-related risks and promoting trust with a tamper-proof history of transactions and automatic execution of smart contracts. Based on blockchain technology to promote trust, this research has discovered a novel approach for smallholder farmers to conduct exchanges by generating social capital as an individual and using that social capital as collateral for financial exchanges when establishing contracts. This approach empowers farmers to trade smart futures contracts on behalf of the expected harvest at a better rate to receive some cash in advance to be used in the cultivation process to produce a high-quality harvest that attracts better rates. It also enables them to perform aggregated marketing with enhanced market linkages that, in turn, assist in increasing margins made by the farmer.

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“…The term empowerment has different meanings in different sociocultural context often implying self-efficacy, power, independence and self-reliance. In the broadest possible sense, empowerment implies allowing an individual the power, authority and control over resources and decisions that affect one's life by providing the freedom and knowledge of choice and action (Ginige and Richards, 2012). In the context of online social support health group, empowerment is an outcome of interpersonal and collective social action.…”

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Role of empowerment and sense of community on online social health support group

Sharma

Khadka

2019

ITP

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Purpose Drawing on the taxonomy of patient empowerment and a sense of community (SoC), the purpose of this paper is to analyze the factors that impact the intention of the individual to continue using online social health support community for their chronic disease management. Design/methodology/approach A survey design was used to collect the data from multiple online social health support groups related to chronic disease management. The survey yielded a total of 246 usable responses. Findings The primary findings from this study indicate that the informational support – not the nurturant support such as emotional, network, and esteem support – are the major types of support people are seeking from an online social health support community. This research also found that patient empowerment and SoC would positively impact their intention to continue using the online health community. Research limitations/implications This study utilized a survey design method may limit precision and realism. Also, there is the self-selection bias as the respondents self-selected themselves to take the survey. Practical implications The findings can help the community managers or webmasters to design strategies for the promotion and diffusion of online social health group among patient of chronic disease. Those strategies should focus on patient’s empowerment through action facilitating and social support and through creating a SoC. Originality/value An innovative research model integrates patient empowerment and a SoC to study patient’s chronic disease management through online social health groups to fill the existing research gap.

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Design for Empowerment: Empowering Sri Lankan Farmers through Mobile-based Information System

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Competitive Risaralda, generating research alliances for development

Competitive Risaralda, generating research alliances for development

Smart Agricultural Futures Market: Blockchain Technology as a Trust Enabler between Smallholder Farmers and Buyers

Role of empowerment and sense of community on online social health support group

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