ICT and Ag Profile: Community Knowledge Worker

This profile discusses The Grameen Foundations work almost 200 Community Knowledge Workers (CKWs) in Uganda who provide free agricultural information and advice to rural farmers (including crop information, market prices, weather information and inputs) on their smartphones. Trusted community members are identified and trained as CKWs to disseminate and collect agriculture-related information via Android phones. Under USAID’s Fostering Agriculture Competitiveness Employing Information Communication Technologies (FACET) project under the Financial Integration, Economic Leveraging, Broad-Based Dissemination and Support Leaders with Associates award (FIELD-Support LWA), this profile focuses on farm extension services in Uganda.

The FACET project aims to help USAID missions and their implementing partners in sub-Saharan Africa use information and communications technology in sustainable and scalable approaches to improve the impact of their agriculture-related development projects.