Impacts and Challenges of ICT Based Scale-up Campaigns: Lessons Learnt from the Use of SMS to Support Maize Farmers in the UPTAKE Project, Tanzania

Providing smallholder farmers with support through conventional government extension approaches is challenging as the number of extension agents is decreasing. At the same time, new information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as short message services (SMS) sent via mobile phones, show c...

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Main Authors: Lucy Karanja, Stephanie Gakuo, Monica Kansiime, Dannie Romney, Henry Mibei, James Watiti, Leonard Sabula, Daniel Karanja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2020-02-01
Series:Data Science Journal
Subjects:
ict
Online Access:https://datascience.codata.org/articles/1007