Digital green: Participatory video for agricultural extension

2007 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gandhi, Rikin ^a   Veeraraghavan, Rajesh ^a,b   Toyama, Kentaro ^a   Ramprasad, Vanaja ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Developing nations; Mediated instruction; Rural areas; Video based instruction

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE EXTENSION; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; CONTENT PRODUCTION; DEVELOPING NATIONS; DIGITAL VIDEOS; EXTENSION SYSTEMS; HOMOPHILY; MEDIATED INSTRUCTION; PARTICIPATORY PROCESS; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; SOCIAL NETWORK; VIDEO-BASED INSTRUCTION;

AGRICULTURE; CAMERAS; DIGITAL TELEVISION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; RURAL AREAS; VIDEO RECORDING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 67650568307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937388     Document Type: Conference Paper

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