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Two Action Research Partners
Monday, January 30, 2012 - 18:17

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New Potential Partner in Nepal
Monday, January 30, 2012 - 18:14

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OMPT Asks Advice from Non-Profit Expert about Partnering with Guatemalan NGOs
Friday, May 6, 2011 - 17:24

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Friday, May 6, 2011 - 17:22

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OMPT Looks for a Pilot Project in Ghana
Friday, May 6, 2011 - 17:21

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Assisting Digital Green with Pico Projectors
Friday, March 25, 2011 - 20:37

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Literacy Bridge Finds New Use for Talking Book
Friday, March 25, 2011 - 20:34

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Matt York Speaks via MP3 at Internews' Asia Managers' Meeting
Friday, March 25, 2011 - 20:25

Internews is an international media development organization located in Northern California. Its mission is to empower local media around the world so that people can get information they need and...

Submitted by Visitor on Wed, 2010-07-28 23:12
Project Name (Full name): 
Digital Green
Organization: 
USAID
Category: 
NGOs using media players
Country: 
India
Subject: 

Digital Green is dedicated to improving the social, economic, and environmental sustainability of small farmer livelihoods. They raise the livelihoods of smallholder farmers across the developing world through the targeted production and dissemination of agricultural information via participatory video. This work begins by disseminating targeted agricultural information to small and marginal farmers using a cost-realistic media exchange that is supported by existing, people-based extension systems and local facilitators.

Target Audience: 

 Marginal farmers in India

Number of Lessons: 
983 videos produced
Links to Content: 

http://www.digitalgreen.org/

http://www.digitalgreen.org/analytics/overview_module/?geog=country&id=1

http://www.digitalgreen.org/projectprogress/

Technology Solution: 

The Digital Green system sustains relevancy in a community by developing a framework for participatory learning. The system includes a digital video database, which is produced by farmers and experts. The content within this repository is of various types, and sequencing enables farmers to progressively become better farmers.

Results: 

Sustainable agricultural practices require a longer term cost-benefit analysis; however, video can compress the time needed to reveal the change. Visiting every farmer's plot to demonstrate a particular method requires unattainable human resources and transporting every farmer to a demonstration plot at a collectively acceptable place and time is culturally and logistically impractical. Video provides a means of bringing relevant demonstrations into the homes of farmers.