Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas: A socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation

Rijswijk, Kelly; Klerkx, Laurens; Bacco, Manlio; Bartolini, Fabio; Bulten, Ellen; Debruyne, Lies; Dessein, Joost; Scotti, Ivano; Brunori, Gianluca

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.05.003

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“…For example, in chapter 3 I showed the mismatch between the low user-readiness of Rwandan banana farmers and the advanced services that international organizations want to develop for them. Rijswijk et al, 2021;Rose & Chilvers, 2018). I observed a similar discrepancy in relation to design thinking principles and the principles for digital development (Cerf et al, 2012;Dearden & Rizvi, 2008;Waugaman, 2016).…”

Section: The Research Findings In a Broader Perspective: Contributions Of The Thesis To The Scientific Debate On Digital Agriculturementioning

confidence: 89%

“…Established conceptual thinking about innovations and knowledge is not always valid when it comes to digitalization, and thus needs rethinking. I showed this for inclusion in chapter 5 and for knowledge exchange and decision making about complex problems in chapters 6 and 7, while others demonstrated it for topics such as governance and legislation (Cinnamon, 2020;van der Burg et al, 2020;Wiseman, Pesce, et al, 2019), or for responsibility (Bronson, 2018;Rijswijk et al, 2021). Yet there is still a world to explore and research.…”

Section: From Hype To Realism: the Need To Manage Expectations Of Digitalization In African Agriculturementioning

confidence: 97%

“…Discussion and synthesis should be a continuous concern (Rijswijk et al, 2021) and that anticipation, reflexivity, and responsiveness are necessary to catch unintended consequences early on, continuously adapt designs to emerging demands, and enable responsible diffusion and scaling of digital innovations (Bronson, 2019;Klerkx & Rose, 2020;Wigboldus et al, 2016). To facilitate this, and reduce that the consequences of digitalization are in reallife overlooked, conceptual thinking about responsible innovation and responsible design should be operationalized to the real-life conditions of the Global South and digital agriculture and become better integrated with the approaches used to design digital innovations.…”

Section: Responsible Design and Innovation And Responsibility In Digital Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…aspects of life, are transformed into digital, quantifiable, and machine-readable data that allow for tracking, monitoring, (predictive) analysis, and optimization (Williamson, 2018) Digital (societal) transformation Use of digital technologies and services as transformative forces to reach the goals of agriculture 4.0/fourth agricultural revolution e.g. improving productivity, resource use optimization, food security and safety, (environmental) sustainability (Parra-López, Reina-Usuga, Carmona-Torres, Sayadi, & Klerkx, 2021) entailing a variety of digitization, digitalization, and datafication activities (Rijswijk et al, 2021)…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Thus, digitalization will likely have far-reaching, disruptive, implications for existing agricultural innovation systems (Ezeomah & Duncombe, 2019;Fielke et al, 2019;Hinings et al, 2018) resulting in questions about what should be considered ethical and responsible digital innovation (Royakkers, Timmer, Kool, & van Est, 2018;Wakunuma, 2019), e.g. asking who is responsible and accountable for the impact of digitalization (Rijswijk et al, 2021). It is no surprise that such questions arise, since innovation almost always comes with contestation, especially about an innovation's (unintended, unwanted, unanticipated) consequences (Valkenburg, 2020).…”

Section: General Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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More than what meets the eye : factors and processes that shape the design and use of digital agricultural advisory and decision support in Africa

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Su um mm ma ar ry y ( (E En ng gl li is sh h) )Over the past few decades, digitalization has undeniably been transformative and disruptive and digital innovations became an integral part of people's day-to-day life. The years 2020 and 2021, in which the world came to a temporary standstill due to the SARS-CoV-2 or COVID19 pandemic, undoubtedly showed the power of digital technologies: Globally, and almost overnight did work, education, and private lives shift from being place-based and face-to-face to being cloud-based and remote. In a predigitalized era, this would have been unthinkable.The global availability of (low-cost) digital technologies and services, and subsequently emerging processes of digitization and digitalization, have made digital innovation a key goal and investment theme in many sectors, including in agriculture, both in the Global North and Global South. For the Global South context specifically, there is keen hope that longstanding, complex problems can be addressed with the aid of digital technologies. In the context of African agriculture, digital technologies and services are deployed with the goal to improve food and nutrition security, healthier diets, rural income and livelihoods, mitigating climate change, building resilience, and access to information for everyone.Although digital agriculture can currently be considered a hype and the number of (scientific) publications appearing on a daily basis is skyrocketing, we still know very little about the processes through which digital agriculture services are designed and the complex and uncertain circumstances wherein design decisions are made. We also have limited understanding about the role that design plays in determining the societal consequences of digitalization and who is, ultimately, affected and in what way (positive or negative).This dissertation aims to contribute to these research gaps by developing understanding about factors and processes that determine the design and use of digital innovation that are created to address complex agricultural problems. Through this research the question 'What factors and processes shape the design and use of digital advisory and decision support services that are developed for addressing complex agricultural problems in Africa?' was answered. The specific focus was thereby on digital agriculture advisory and decision support. The geographic focus is on Africa, with two case studies from Rwanda (the case of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt as a complex Summary XI agricultural problem for which a solution is sought, and the case of ICT4BXW as a case of a digital agriculture project that developed an agricultural advisory and decision support service).The dissertation includes eight chapters of which six are based on empirical research:Chapter 1 is a general introduction that presents the topic of research, the scientific state-of-the-art, and the research design.Chapter 2 is a problem diagnostics chapter that uses a systems analysis approach to assess the complex problem of Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW...

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Section: The Research Findings In a Broader Perspective: Contributions Of The Thesis To The Scientific Debate On Digital Agriculturementioning

confidence: 89%

Section: From Hype To Realism: the Need To Manage Expectations Of Digitalization In African Agriculturementioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Responsible Design and Innovation And Responsibility In Digital Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: General Introductionmentioning

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Digital transformation of agriculture and rural areas: A socio-cyber-physical system framework to support responsibilisation

Cited by 213 publications

References 105 publications

More than what meets the eye : factors and processes that shape the design and use of digital agricultural advisory and decision support in Africa

More than what meets the eye : factors and processes that shape the design and use of digital agricultural advisory and decision support in Africa

Advancing Financial Inclusion through Digital Finance Innovations in Tanzania

Assessing the impact of Industry 4.0 technologies on the social sustainability of agrifood companies

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