Dear Colleagues: I am seeking your suggestions, comments, collaboration and partnership for the following project. This is an individual effort but I want to expand the project and make it more productive. At the moment, I am more interested in finding volunteers, partners, advisers, database storage server or host, and potential donors. I strongly believe that ICT could jump start development efforts especially countries emerging from prolonged civil war, where institutions and infrastructures were completely destroyed including knowledge outputs.
I am a Somali agricultural scientist and I'm putting together a project on the use of innovative ICT to recover and rehabilitate the lost Somalia's agricultural knowledge during the Somalia's civil conflict (14 years civil war). All the agricultural institutions and their associated knowledge were destroyed. OBJECTIVE: the main goal of the project is to fast track, document, and repatriate the lost agricultural knowledge scattered different parts of the world and eventually to create a widely accessible online knowledge bank which is not prone to man-made and natural disasters. The project might serve as a model for the reconstitution and preservation of agricultural knowledge in other African countries experiencing human-made and/or natural disastersâA Resilient Information System. PREMISES: initial research and correspondences has established that duplicates of the lost agricultural knowledge and samples of indigenous crop genetic materials do exist in scattered locations (libraries and genebanks of universities, international development agencies, and private individuals, expats). I got hold good number of data for the last 2-3 months. TARGET AUDIENCE: the target group is intermediaries not the farmers and the generated information will be used for the planning and formulation of a sound agricultural rehabilitation programs for Somalia by the agricultural professionals, policy-makers, extension agents, development agents, and farmers in the long run. DELIVERY FORMAT: The knowledge bank will be in a format called Single Source Publishing (SSP) which allows the knowledge bank information to be generated in whatever form is required by the audience requesting its materials; delivered on the web, burned onto CR-ROM, or compiled to print. CALL: I invite all of you to be part of the daunting task and contribute to realize a running agricultural knowledge bank for Somalia. It requires the involvement of all us to make it happen. Please share your ideas, expertise etc etc. I am committed to do my best to establish an agricultural knowledge bank (past & new information)...a system resilient to disasters. Please feel free to contact me with questions and suggestions. I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks. -------------------------------------------------------------- Ahmed M. Dirie, PhD 4351 Hamilton Ave, Apt 3 San Jose, CA 95130, USA Mobile: 408-307-7223 Home: 408-866-6269 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
