Involving Communities Increases Trust
Consultative Meeting with Farmers on ICT4Ag, MIM-Lilongwe March 12-13, 2015 Have been very busy of late, even writing my own things was far from me. I have had very beautiful moments worthy capturing and sharing. But I can tell it has been the happiest time of times. Happiness because a number of things are moving in the right direction; perfect because a number of them are happening as planned. One of the major things happened a week ago. March 12-13 2015 will be memorable in my career as an ICT4D Profession. I met farmers who traveled from the deepest rural to participate in a consultative meeting to bang heads and plan wayward together about ICT4D projects. Thanks to Farm RadioTrust for convening the great meeting. Farmers were brought in so that we should share with them our idea, so that we should also learn from their ideas. Farmers are only ignorant on things they haven't experienced. Train them, they become experts that make things work. So we...