Abstract
Proper technology transfer based on scientific data is inevitable for farmers to promote sustainable agriculture which is a common target of modern food production. In under-developing countries, illiteracy of farmers is one of the major reasons for them to receive sufficient information and knowledge for such sustainable food production. In this study, we conducted a trial to examine effectiveness of an idea to transfer agricultural knowledge and information to illiterate farmers through their children educated at school as messengers between their illiterate parents and remote experts by utilizing several ICT tools including a multilingual machine translator which can bridge the famers and even foreign experts.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 6879691 |
Pages (from-to) | 251-253 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Annual SRII Global Conference, SRII |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 Jan 1 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 2014 Annual SRII Global Conference, SRII 2014 - San Jose, CA, United States Duration: 2014 Apr 23 → 2014 Apr 25 |
Keywords
- human sensors
- multilingual machine translation
- rural development
- sustainable agriculture
- youth
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Science Applications