Hello;
I just found this on the web. It's for a meeting in Scotland
in July 2007. Some of the themes appear to be of interest to
people on this list. Perhaps a publication at this meeting
would help to clarify the research aspects of the project.
An edited announcement follows. Perhaps some of the questions it
asks can be the source of some discussion on this list?
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The European Federation of IT in Agriculture and the
World Congress on Computers in Agriculture presents
EFITA/WCCA 2007
Glasgow Caledonian University,
2-5 July 2007
"Environmental and rural sustainability through ICT"
-> ICT supporting on-farm/business: What does rural industry want/need
from an ICT system? Possible topics include:
• Farm management systems
• Decision support tools
• Aquatic Resource Management
• Dairy and Animal Production Systems
• e-AgBusiness and Production Chain Management
• Field Data Acquisition and Recording
• Food Safety Control/Tracking-Tracing
• GIS and Precision Agriculture
• Grid Applications
• Information Systems and Databases
• Instrumentation and Control
• Internet Services
• Wireless and Sensor Networks
-> ICT supporting rural sustainability: Can ICT support rural
sustainability? Evidence, cautionary tales and new developments.
Possible topics include:
• Broadband applications for rural communities
• SMEs and digital communication
• The emergence of the rural e-citizen
• Education/Training and Distance, Learning/Professional Accreditation
• Rural youth and ICTs
• Internet supported communities
• ICTs role in capacity-building and social capital development in
rural communities?
• Cultural evaluation of ICTs in rural development
• Transferability of “solutions” across territories and countries
-> ICT supporting environmental sustainability: How can ICT support
the achievement and maintenance of environmental sustainability in the
rural and agricultural sectors? Possible topics include:
• Predicting the effect of policy changes
• Answering policy maker’s questions
• Spatial analysis, GIS and datasets
• Design and evaluation of mitigation measures
• Modelling ecological consequences of land management practice
• Mitigating and adapting to multiple stressors
• Environmental monitoring systems
• Using ICT to deliver the policy objectives
• Increasing uptake/understanding of legislation
• Tracking uptake of schemes and policies
• e-Government
• Environmental knowledge transfer using ICT
• DSS for farmers and consultants
• ICT in legislation and compliance
Conference website: www.efitaglasgow.org
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Best regards,
Daryl
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Daryl H. Hepting, Ph.D.
Associate Professor * Computer Science Department * CW 308.22
University of Regina * Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada S4S 0A2
dhh@cs.uregina.ca * http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~hepting
tel: (306) 585-5210 * fax: (306) 585-4745
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