Authors:
Yun Zhang
1
;
Yanqing Duan
2
and
Yanan Hu
1
Affiliations:
1
Foreign Economic Cooperation Centre and Ministry of Agriculture, China
;
2
University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Keyword(s):
ICT-based Information Service Model, China, Agriculture, Farmers, Decision Support, Informatization.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Models
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Government
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Urban/Regional Planning/Development
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Over the last three decades, China’s agriculture sector has been transformed from the traditional to modern
agriculture practice through the effective deployment of Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT). Information processing and dissemination have played a critical role in this transformation process.
However, there are very limited publications regarding the China’s success and lessons learned in utilising
ICTs to support Agriculture development and transformation. This paper aims to contribute to a better
understanding on how different ICT-based information service models are designed and adopted in China;
and to share the knowledge and experience in applying emerging ICTs in disseminating agriculture
information to farmers to improve productivity and economic, social and environmental sustainability. The
paper reviews and analyses the China’s agricultural information service systems and models. Seven ICTbased
information dissemination models are identified and discuss
ed. Successful cases are presented to
demonstrate the impacts of different service models. The findings provide a useful direction for researchers
and practitioners in developing future ICT based information processing and dissemination systems. It is
hoped that this paper will also help other developing countries to learn from China’s experience and best
practice in their endeavor of applying emerging ICTs in agriculture information dissemination and sharing.
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