Research - Directorate of Communication and Information Technology

The Centre for Information Communication and Technology (CICT) works on ICT related research & consultancy to solve vast number of problems mainly in Agriculture,Fisheries and Livestock keeping.

CICT have been involved in a number of projects which uses different approaches for outreach/extension as listed:

i). Use of mobile phone application to increase the coverage of extension service – http://www.e-agriculture.org/news/ict-based-agro-advisory-system-tanzania

This system is still working – http://ushaurikilimo.org/ Policy brief – http://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/1008

ii). Use of community radio to promote communication/dissemination of agricultural information – http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=1530 The framework has been developed

iii). Use of mobile phones in communicating weather information-http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.412.557 Farm SMS was commisioned to TMA

Story in newspaper- http://news.trust.org//item/20131104120841-2fm9a/

iv). Use of call centre to promote outreach/extension service