Bw. Kieti, Asante. A comparison with Asia and South America would be quite interesting. Live streaming seems to be quite popular in China [0][1] - where it seems that "naomba serikali isadie"[2] is not the way to do things. The cost of communication relative to typical annual incomes is also lower. The issue of raising trust levels is also important to enable digital transactions. A traditional solution, hawalas existed before the internet enabling commerce over very large distances, so technical issues are not the only problem. The response rate is relatively low, 887 responses from 300,000 likely users, though the group sizes have changed since 2019[3][4]. SMS seems to be useful for conducting surveys and engaging farmers[5][6]. For online surveys, might it be possible to engage directly with farmers groups that do not just exist online if online groups with a high level of engagement do not exist? One could consider medium size farmers in the grain sector, for example through the East African Grain Council[7], or dairy farmers through the Kenya Dairy Farmers Federation[8]. These might get higher relative response rates, though would still not reach many of the smaller farmers for which SMS and radio would be more effective, as an example in Ethiopia, many chicken farmers have a mobile phone and a radio[9]. Finally, efforts such as DigiFarm are nice. If DigiFarm succeeds at the same level as MPESA, there is the worry that the same entity controls both the network infrastructure for communication as well as the digital service, squeezing out other possible innovators such as Twiga Foods. . [0] https://www.alizila.com/taobao-helping-farmers-reap-gains-in-livestream-boom... [1] https://www.alizila.com/alibaba-agriculture-festival-ushers-in-harvest-seaso... [2] https://janelubale.blogspot.com/2014/01/naomba-serikali-asaidie-i-am-pleadin... [3] https://www.facebook.com/groups/254019644745036/ [4] https://www.facebook.com/groups/291955461617527 [5] https://www.iica.int/en/press/news/brazil-first-latin-american-country-slate... [6] https://precisiondev.org/where-we-work/kenya/pad-lab/ [7] http://eagc.org [8] https://www.kdff.co.ke [9] https://data.ilri.org/portal/dataset/acggethbaselinepublic On 1/18/22 9:21 AM, Ali Hussein via KICTANet wrote:
Hi John
Thanks for sharing. Looks like an interesting read.
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On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 10:10 AM John Kieti via KICTANet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke <mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke>> wrote:
Hello Listers,
Allow me to bring to your attention our new research paper, peer reviewed and published in the new Smart Agricultural Technologies journal. The title is: *What really impedes the scaling out of digital services for agriculture? A Kenyan users’ perspective <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772375522000016>. *The paper, attached, can be shared freely on CC BY basis.
In summary, the study sought conceptual clarity on barriers to the success of digital services for agriculture as deployed by Startups, NGOs, Government etc. We examined the latent structure and patterns of association among such impediments as mentioned in the literature and perceived by end users. Quantitatively and qualitatively, we ascertained a three-factor structure comprising */(1) Technology Accessibility/* /- digital skills, internet, devices, electricity .../ /*(2) Service Discoverability - *awareness, collaboration, one-stop-shop ..., / and*(3) Service Value Proposition */*- *usability, relevance, service affordability... /According to the study, the success of digital services for agriculture in Kenya (and similar services or similar settings) boils down to how practitioners and policy makers optimize interventions around these three dimensions. Discoverability and Value proposition co-varied more than with technology accessibility as they are more in the purview of the digital service provider (than technology accessibility). We also proposed a scale for measuring the impediments.
We argued that public policy, one of our qualitatively generated themes, was indirectly covered in the three dimensions of the structure (that it is not necessarily a fourth dimension). Confirming or disconfirming this bit about public policy may be a topic for further research. Curious to know what KICTANET listers think of this ...
My co-authors were Prof. Waema, Dr. Baumüller, Prof. Ndemo, & Dr. Omwansa
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