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volume 34 issue 3 (september 2013) : 198-206,   Doi: 10.5958/j.0976-0741.34.3.004

FACTORS AFFECTING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF ICT INTERVENTION FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT - A REVIEW

W
Wadkar Sagar Kisan*
A
Argade Shivaji Dadabhau
K
Khajan Singh
1Dairy Extension Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal -132 001, India
Cite article:- Kisan* Sagar Wadkar, Dadabhau Shivaji Argade, Singh Khajan (2025). FACTORS AFFECTING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF ICT INTERVENTION FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT - A REVIEW. Agricultural Reviews. 34(3): 198-206. doi: 10.5958/j.0976-0741.34.3.004.

ABSTRACT

The donor agencies are being directly-indirectly implementing ambitious ICT interventions in developing countries with the hope for sustainable impact arising from development oriented ICT interventions. In the past, emphasis had been placed on the supply side rather than the demand side. Hence, the main focus of the interventions has been the implementation the ICT for Development project and creating infrastructure rather than understanding the impact on the society level and integration of inbuilt checks and balances for sustainability of interventions. Here attempt is made to review different factors associated with the sustainability of the ICT intervention for agricultural development. The other aim is to ponder over the achievements and the failures of ICT in the sustainable development march. Thus, the impact measures and factors of sustainability need to undertake in planning and implementation of interventions for its long term functionality.

REFERENCES

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  2. Avgerou, C. and Walsham, G. (2000). Information technology in context: Studies from the perspective of Developing Countries. Aldershot, Ashgate.
  3. Baark, E. and Heeks, R. (1998). Transfer Projects in China: A Life-Cycle Approach, Development Informatics Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 1, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
  4. Bhatnagar, S. (2004). E-Government from Vision to Implementation: A Practical Guide with Case Studies. Sage Publications, New Delhi, India.
  5. Brundtland. (1987). Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, UN.
  6. Chigona, W., Pollock, M. and Roode, J. D. (2009). South Africa’s Socio-Techno divide: A critical discourse analysis of government speeches. South African Computer Journal, 44, December 2009, 3-20.
  7. Cisler, S. (2002). Schools Online: Planning for sustainability. Schools Online. Available [Online]: http: www.schoolsonline.org/resources/Sustainability-booklet.pdf.
  8. Colle, R. D. and Roman, R. (2003). Content for ICT Initiatives. International Congress of Information Conference on information, knowledge and society, challenges of a new era. Havana, Cuba.
  9. Delgadillo, K., Gomez, R. and Stoll, K. (2002). Community telecentres for development: Lessons from community telecentres in Latin America and the Caribbean. IDRC Ottawa: Canada.
  10. Erdmann, L. (2008). The future impact of ICTs on environmental sustainability, OECD-NITA Workshop on ICTs and Environmental Challenges, Copenhagen.
  11. Freeman, R. E. (1984). Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, Pitman, Boston.
  12. Fukuyama, F. (2004). State-building: Governance and world order in the 21st century. Cornell University Press Ithaca.
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  14. Gomez, R. and Casadiego, B. (2002). Letter to Aunt Ofelia: Seven proposals for human development using new information and communications technologies. A publication of the International Development Research Centre.
  15. Gomez, R. and Martinez, J. (2000). Beyond Connectivity: New information and communication technologies for social development. Available [Online]: http://www.web.idrc.ca/en/ev-7935-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html.
  16. Harris, R., Kumar, A. and Balaji, V. (2003). Sustainable telecentres? Two cases from India. In the Digital Challenge: Information Technology in the Development Context, Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants pp 24–136.
  17. Heeks, R. (2002). Information Systems and developing countries: Failure, success, and local improvisations. The Information Society, 18: 101-112.
  18. Heeks, R. (2008). ICT4D 2.0: The next phase of applying ICT for international development. Computer, 41(6): 26-33.
  19. Heeks, R. (2010). Do Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) contribute to development? Journal of International Development, 22: 625–640.
  20. Heeks, R., and Bhatnagar, S. C. (1999). Understanding Success and Failure in information age reform. In R. Heeks (Ed.), Reinventing Government in the Information Age: International Practice in IT-enabled Public Sector Reform Routledge. London (pp. 49–74).
  21. Hudson, H. (1999). Designing research for telecentre evaluation, in Telecentre Evaluation: A Global Perspective, Report of an International Meeting on Telecentre Evaluation, Gomez R And Hunt P (Eds), Far Hills Inn, Quebec, Canada, September 28–30, 999.
  22. IFAD. (2006a). ARRI issues note: Sustainability. Internal document. Rome.
  23. IFAD. (2006b). Evaluation of IFAD’s regional strategy in Asia and the Pacific: Corporate-level evaluation. Report No. 1779. Office of Evaluation. Rome.
  24. Iyer, G. (2005). Why is there a Thillan?. MSc Dissertation, Department of Information Systems, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  25. Jhunjhunwala, A. Ramachandran, A. and Ramachandran, S (2006). Connecting Rural India: Taking a Step Back for Two Forward. Information Technology in Developing Countries, 16(1).
  26. Kiggundu, M. (1989). Managing Organizations in Developing Countries: An Organizational and Strategic Approach, CT, Kumerian Press West Hartford.
  27. Kumar, R. (2005). E-Choupals: A Study on the Financial Sustainability of Village Internet Centers in Rural Madhya Pradesh. Information Technologies and International Development, 2(1): 45-73.
  28. Kumar, R. and Best, M. (2006). Impact and Sustainability of e-governance Services in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned from Tamil Nadu, India. The Information Society, 22: 1-12.
  29. Kuriyan, R., Ray, I., and Toyama, K. (2006). Integrating Social Development and Financial Sustainability: The Challenges of Rural Kiosks in Kerala” in Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development, Berkeley, May 25-26 2006, pp. 121-130.
  30. Madon, S. (2000). The Internet and Socio-Economic Development: Exploring the Interaction. Information Technology and People, 13(2): 85-101.
  31. Mansell, R. (2011). Power and interests in information and communication technologies and development: exogenous and endogenous discourses in contention. Journal of International Development.
  32. Mansell, R. and When. (1998). Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  33. Manzar, O. (2004). Adversity to success the world’s best e- content & creativity experience, The Country Paper INDIA, Global ICT Summit 2004, Digital Empowerment Foundation. Hong Kong.
  34. Misra, D.C. and Vijayaditya, N. (2006). Development Informatics: Reaching the Rural India: Role of NIC. International Journal for Development, 16(1).(February 2006) Accessed from http:www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/ Feb 2006html)
  35. Misund, G., and Hoiberg, J. (2003). Sustainable Information Technology for Global Sustainability, Digital Earth in Information Resources for Global Sustainability Symposium, Brno, Czech Republic.
  36. Mog, J. M. (2004). Struggling with sustainability: A comparative framework for evaluating sustainable development programs. World Development, 32(12): 2139–2160.
  37. OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development). (1990). Issues papers: On Integrating Environment and Economics, Paris.
  38. O’Toole, K. and Burdess, N. (2002). Governance in Rural Communities: The case of Victoria. Presented at the Jubilee conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association Australian National University, Canberra.
  39. Oyomno, G. Z. (1996). Sustainability of Governmental Use of Microcomputer-Based Information Technology in Kenya, in Global Information Technology and Socio-Economic Development, M. Odedra -Straub (Ed.), Nashua: Ivy League, pp. 19-34.
  40. Pade-Khene, C., Mallinson, B. and Sewry. (2011). Sustainable rural ICT project management practice for developing countries: investigating the Dwesa and RUMEP projects. Information Technology for Development, 17(3): 187-212.
  41. Plepys, A. (2002). The grey side of ICT, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 22(5): 509-523.
  42. Proenza, F. J. (2001). Telecentre sustainability–Myths and opportunities. Journal of Development Communication, 12(3).
  43. Roman, R., and Colle, R. (2003). Content Creation for ICT Development Projects: Integrating Normative Approaches and Community Demand. Information Technology for Development, 10: 85-94.
  44. Saravanan, R. (2010). ICTs for Agricultural Extension: Global Experiments, Innovations and Experiences. New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi.
  45. Saravanan, R., Kathiresan, C., and Indra Devi, T. (2011). (Eds.) Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture and Rural Development, New India Publishing Agency (NIPA), New Delhi.
  46. Stoll, K. and Menou, M. (2003). Basic principles of community public internet access point’s sustainability, in Community networking and community informatics: Prospects, approaches and instruments, by M. Gurstein, M. Menou, S. Stafeev, (Eds.), Preparatory process to the International Conference “Building the Information Commonwealth: Information Technologies and Prospects for the Development of Civil Society Institutions in the CIS Countries,” Saint Petersburg, Russia.
  47. Sulaiman, R. V., Andy Hall, Kalaivani, N. J., Kumuda Dorai and Vamsidhar Reddy, T. S. (2012). Necessary, but not sufficient: Critiquing the role of information and communication technology in putting knowledge into use. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 18(4): 331-346.
  48. Toyama, K. (2010). Can Technology End Poverty? Boston Review, Nov/Dec 2010. Retrievedfrom http:// www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/toyama.php
  49. Toyama, K. (2011).Technology as amplifier in international development. Paper presented at the iConference 2011, February 8-11, 2011, Seattle, WA, US.
  50. Unwin, T. (2009). ICT4D, Information and Communication Technology for Development. Cambridge University Press Cambridge, UK.
  51. WCED (World Commission on Environment and Development). (1987). Our common future. Oxford University Press Oxford.
  52. Whyte, A. (1999). Understanding the role of community telecentres in development – A proposed approach to evaluation, in Telecentre Evaluation: A Global Perspective. Report of an International Meeting on Telecentre Evaluation (GÓMEZ R and HUNT P, Eds), IDRC, Canada.
  53. Yerramsetti, S. (2005). Role of Information Technology for Rural Development - A Case Study of Rural e-Seva Project in West Godavari District. M. Phil. Dissertation at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi: 126.
  54. Zijp, Willem. (1994). Improving the transfer and use of agricultural information: A guide to information technology, World Bank (Washington, D.C.).
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    volume 34 issue 3 (september 2013) : 198-206,   Doi: 10.5958/j.0976-0741.34.3.004

    FACTORS AFFECTING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF ICT INTERVENTION FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT - A REVIEW

    W
    Wadkar Sagar Kisan*
    A
    Argade Shivaji Dadabhau
    K
    Khajan Singh
    1Dairy Extension Division, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal -132 001, India
    Cite article:- Kisan* Sagar Wadkar, Dadabhau Shivaji Argade, Singh Khajan (2025). FACTORS AFFECTING THE SUSTAINABILITY OF ICT INTERVENTION FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT - A REVIEW. Agricultural Reviews. 34(3): 198-206. doi: 10.5958/j.0976-0741.34.3.004.

    ABSTRACT

    The donor agencies are being directly-indirectly implementing ambitious ICT interventions in developing countries with the hope for sustainable impact arising from development oriented ICT interventions. In the past, emphasis had been placed on the supply side rather than the demand side. Hence, the main focus of the interventions has been the implementation the ICT for Development project and creating infrastructure rather than understanding the impact on the society level and integration of inbuilt checks and balances for sustainability of interventions. Here attempt is made to review different factors associated with the sustainability of the ICT intervention for agricultural development. The other aim is to ponder over the achievements and the failures of ICT in the sustainable development march. Thus, the impact measures and factors of sustainability need to undertake in planning and implementation of interventions for its long term functionality.

    REFERENCES

    1. APDIP (Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme). (2004). Information and Communication Technologies for Poverty Alleviation, Volume 8 of e-Primers for the information economy, society and polity, UNDP-APDIP.
    2. Avgerou, C. and Walsham, G. (2000). Information technology in context: Studies from the perspective of Developing Countries. Aldershot, Ashgate.
    3. Baark, E. and Heeks, R. (1998). Transfer Projects in China: A Life-Cycle Approach, Development Informatics Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 1, Institute for Development Policy and Management, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
    4. Bhatnagar, S. (2004). E-Government from Vision to Implementation: A Practical Guide with Case Studies. Sage Publications, New Delhi, India.
    5. Brundtland. (1987). Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, UN.
    6. Chigona, W., Pollock, M. and Roode, J. D. (2009). South Africa’s Socio-Techno divide: A critical discourse analysis of government speeches. South African Computer Journal, 44, December 2009, 3-20.
    7. Cisler, S. (2002). Schools Online: Planning for sustainability. Schools Online. Available [Online]: http: www.schoolsonline.org/resources/Sustainability-booklet.pdf.
    8. Colle, R. D. and Roman, R. (2003). Content for ICT Initiatives. International Congress of Information Conference on information, knowledge and society, challenges of a new era. Havana, Cuba.
    9. Delgadillo, K., Gomez, R. and Stoll, K. (2002). Community telecentres for development: Lessons from community telecentres in Latin America and the Caribbean. IDRC Ottawa: Canada.
    10. Erdmann, L. (2008). The future impact of ICTs on environmental sustainability, OECD-NITA Workshop on ICTs and Environmental Challenges, Copenhagen.
    11. Freeman, R. E. (1984). Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, Pitman, Boston.
    12. Fukuyama, F. (2004). State-building: Governance and world order in the 21st century. Cornell University Press Ithaca.
    13. Garai, A. and Shadrach, B. (2006). Processes and Appropriation of ICT in Human Development in Rural India: Bridging the Research and Practice Gaps. In A. Garai & B. Shadrach (Eds.), Taking ICT to Every Village, (pp. 1-35). One World South Asia, New Delhi.
    14. Gomez, R. and Casadiego, B. (2002). Letter to Aunt Ofelia: Seven proposals for human development using new information and communications technologies. A publication of the International Development Research Centre.
    15. Gomez, R. and Martinez, J. (2000). Beyond Connectivity: New information and communication technologies for social development. Available [Online]: http://www.web.idrc.ca/en/ev-7935-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html.
    16. Harris, R., Kumar, A. and Balaji, V. (2003). Sustainable telecentres? Two cases from India. In the Digital Challenge: Information Technology in the Development Context, Ashgate, Aldershot, Hants pp 24–136.
    17. Heeks, R. (2002). Information Systems and developing countries: Failure, success, and local improvisations. The Information Society, 18: 101-112.
    18. Heeks, R. (2008). ICT4D 2.0: The next phase of applying ICT for international development. Computer, 41(6): 26-33.
    19. Heeks, R. (2010). Do Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) contribute to development? Journal of International Development, 22: 625–640.
    20. Heeks, R., and Bhatnagar, S. C. (1999). Understanding Success and Failure in information age reform. In R. Heeks (Ed.), Reinventing Government in the Information Age: International Practice in IT-enabled Public Sector Reform Routledge. London (pp. 49–74).
    21. Hudson, H. (1999). Designing research for telecentre evaluation, in Telecentre Evaluation: A Global Perspective, Report of an International Meeting on Telecentre Evaluation, Gomez R And Hunt P (Eds), Far Hills Inn, Quebec, Canada, September 28–30, 999.
    22. IFAD. (2006a). ARRI issues note: Sustainability. Internal document. Rome.
    23. IFAD. (2006b). Evaluation of IFAD’s regional strategy in Asia and the Pacific: Corporate-level evaluation. Report No. 1779. Office of Evaluation. Rome.
    24. Iyer, G. (2005). Why is there a Thillan?. MSc Dissertation, Department of Information Systems, London School of Economics and Political Science.
    25. Jhunjhunwala, A. Ramachandran, A. and Ramachandran, S (2006). Connecting Rural India: Taking a Step Back for Two Forward. Information Technology in Developing Countries, 16(1).
    26. Kiggundu, M. (1989). Managing Organizations in Developing Countries: An Organizational and Strategic Approach, CT, Kumerian Press West Hartford.
    27. Kumar, R. (2005). E-Choupals: A Study on the Financial Sustainability of Village Internet Centers in Rural Madhya Pradesh. Information Technologies and International Development, 2(1): 45-73.
    28. Kumar, R. and Best, M. (2006). Impact and Sustainability of e-governance Services in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned from Tamil Nadu, India. The Information Society, 22: 1-12.
    29. Kuriyan, R., Ray, I., and Toyama, K. (2006). Integrating Social Development and Financial Sustainability: The Challenges of Rural Kiosks in Kerala” in Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development, Berkeley, May 25-26 2006, pp. 121-130.
    30. Madon, S. (2000). The Internet and Socio-Economic Development: Exploring the Interaction. Information Technology and People, 13(2): 85-101.
    31. Mansell, R. (2011). Power and interests in information and communication technologies and development: exogenous and endogenous discourses in contention. Journal of International Development.
    32. Mansell, R. and When. (1998). Knowledge Societies: Information Technology for Sustainable Development, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
    33. Manzar, O. (2004). Adversity to success the world’s best e- content & creativity experience, The Country Paper INDIA, Global ICT Summit 2004, Digital Empowerment Foundation. Hong Kong.
    34. Misra, D.C. and Vijayaditya, N. (2006). Development Informatics: Reaching the Rural India: Role of NIC. International Journal for Development, 16(1).(February 2006) Accessed from http:www.iimahd.ernet.in/egov/ifip/ Feb 2006html)
    35. Misund, G., and Hoiberg, J. (2003). Sustainable Information Technology for Global Sustainability, Digital Earth in Information Resources for Global Sustainability Symposium, Brno, Czech Republic.
    36. Mog, J. M. (2004). Struggling with sustainability: A comparative framework for evaluating sustainable development programs. World Development, 32(12): 2139–2160.
    37. OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development). (1990). Issues papers: On Integrating Environment and Economics, Paris.
    38. O’Toole, K. and Burdess, N. (2002). Governance in Rural Communities: The case of Victoria. Presented at the Jubilee conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association Australian National University, Canberra.
    39. Oyomno, G. Z. (1996). Sustainability of Governmental Use of Microcomputer-Based Information Technology in Kenya, in Global Information Technology and Socio-Economic Development, M. Odedra -Straub (Ed.), Nashua: Ivy League, pp. 19-34.
    40. Pade-Khene, C., Mallinson, B. and Sewry. (2011). Sustainable rural ICT project management practice for developing countries: investigating the Dwesa and RUMEP projects. Information Technology for Development, 17(3): 187-212.
    41. Plepys, A. (2002). The grey side of ICT, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 22(5): 509-523.
    42. Proenza, F. J. (2001). Telecentre sustainability–Myths and opportunities. Journal of Development Communication, 12(3).
    43. Roman, R., and Colle, R. (2003). Content Creation for ICT Development Projects: Integrating Normative Approaches and Community Demand. Information Technology for Development, 10: 85-94.
    44. Saravanan, R. (2010). ICTs for Agricultural Extension: Global Experiments, Innovations and Experiences. New India Publishing Agency, New Delhi.
    45. Saravanan, R., Kathiresan, C., and Indra Devi, T. (2011). (Eds.) Information and Communication Technology for Agriculture and Rural Development, New India Publishing Agency (NIPA), New Delhi.
    46. Stoll, K. and Menou, M. (2003). Basic principles of community public internet access point’s sustainability, in Community networking and community informatics: Prospects, approaches and instruments, by M. Gurstein, M. Menou, S. Stafeev, (Eds.), Preparatory process to the International Conference “Building the Information Commonwealth: Information Technologies and Prospects for the Development of Civil Society Institutions in the CIS Countries,” Saint Petersburg, Russia.
    47. Sulaiman, R. V., Andy Hall, Kalaivani, N. J., Kumuda Dorai and Vamsidhar Reddy, T. S. (2012). Necessary, but not sufficient: Critiquing the role of information and communication technology in putting knowledge into use. Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 18(4): 331-346.
    48. Toyama, K. (2010). Can Technology End Poverty? Boston Review, Nov/Dec 2010. Retrievedfrom http:// www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/toyama.php
    49. Toyama, K. (2011).Technology as amplifier in international development. Paper presented at the iConference 2011, February 8-11, 2011, Seattle, WA, US.
    50. Unwin, T. (2009). ICT4D, Information and Communication Technology for Development. Cambridge University Press Cambridge, UK.
    51. WCED (World Commission on Environment and Development). (1987). Our common future. Oxford University Press Oxford.
    52. Whyte, A. (1999). Understanding the role of community telecentres in development – A proposed approach to evaluation, in Telecentre Evaluation: A Global Perspective. Report of an International Meeting on Telecentre Evaluation (GÓMEZ R and HUNT P, Eds), IDRC, Canada.
    53. Yerramsetti, S. (2005). Role of Information Technology for Rural Development - A Case Study of Rural e-Seva Project in West Godavari District. M. Phil. Dissertation at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi: 126.
    54. Zijp, Willem. (1994). Improving the transfer and use of agricultural information: A guide to information technology, World Bank (Washington, D.C.).
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