The center is carrying out teaching , research and devlopment with an aim to build ICT-based systems and methodologies to accelarate indian agriculture and rural development. The faculty is involved in imparting knowledge regarding sustaninable agriculturural production systems and environmental issues so that students can carry out research in the area of societal development by extending development in ICTs.
Since 2004, efforts is going on, in collaboration with Media Lab Asia, to build an IT-based personalized and scalable agro-advisory system called e-Sagu with an aim to improve farm productivity, profitability and sustainability by delivering qualit prsona- lized (farm-specific) agro-expert advice in a timely manner to each farm at the farmer's door-steps. So far, we have developed e-Sagu and operationalized it in 300 villages covering six districts for 50 agriculture crops besides fish and prawn.
Collaboration with Media Lab Asia to develop a country-wide integrated agri-service program (IASP) by providing multiple agri-related services (e-Sagu agro-advisory, agri-inputs, finance and marketing) as single window to the farming community. Major Achievements - CSI-Nihilent e-Governance Project Award 2005-06 (overall winner) - Manthan Award 2007-India's best e-Content Development - Finalist in the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008.
In this project,
by exploiting advances in Information Technology (IT), we are making an
effort to build a cost-effective agricultural information
dissemination system to disseminate expert agriculture knowledge to the
farming community to improve the crop productivity.
To improve the
performance of agricultural education, research efforts are being made to
exploit ICT -developments such as database/data warehousing
technologies to develop an education methodology to impart practical skills
to agricultural graduates regarding aforesaid farming situation problems in
an effective and efficient manner. As a result, an initiative has been taken
to introduce an inter-disciplinary post-graduate diploma in Applied
Agriculture and Information Technology (PGDAAIT) from the academic year
2009-10.
Trends in wireless technology have resulted in most of the commuters owning cell phones. By providing timely bus route and arrival information to these cell phones, it is possible to improve the bus occupancy. We have taken an initiative in this direction by building an automated bus information system for Hyderabad (India) city, which gives optimal paths given source and destination information.
In this project we are making effort to design the
recommendation system to meet the requirements of Innts of Indian movie scenario.
For more information, please contact:
Dr. P.Krishna Reddy
Professor,
ICTs for Agriculture and Rural Development (ICTARD),
International Institute of Information Technology,
Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Pin: 500019, India.
Phone: 91-40-23001967 Ext: 131
Fax: 91-40-23001413
E-mail: pkreddy AT iiit DOT ac DOT in
Homepage: http://www.iiit.ac.in/~pkreddy