IIT Kanpur has a project of a Personal Knowledge Manager. A kind of Knowledge Napster, that will make it possible to exchange information between all users of the PKM. Has to be programmed from scratch to give meat for the students.

The will send us a Project note and I promised a problem statement, set of users and set of requirements

I think that we arrived in a situation where we have to learn also IT from the Indians.
Prof. J.Adinarayana presented a Decision Support Systems, GramyaVika s with openSOURce cms, openGIS, local language querying...
email:adi@csre.iitb.ac.in

I heard a very interesting presentation about an Agro Advisory system.Farmer Advice system, called e-Sagu.
P. Krishna Reddy, International Institute of Information Technology, pkreddy@iiit.ac.in.
https://www.esagu.in

A new AGRIS initiative will be AGRIS South to South exchange with Country portals for India and China directed mainly to Africa

THE CHINA PROJECT

We have to exploit the reestablishing of the Chinese AGRIS centre. We must do now the

CHina Portal (Agricultural Knowledge from China for the World) - should this be a series

of Portals Title AGRIS South-South. We have now the Chinese references and we should

organize them in a easy to use way. We could also go for ads from Chinese AGRO TechnoFirms

I am at the moment at the inaugural session of the 5th Asian conferencen on Information Technology in Agriculture. I am listening to the speech of the Chief Secretary of the Government of Karnataka, who started his words with a hinduist prayer.

On the 6th and 7th November the first AGRIS workshop on Open Access in Agricultural Science and Technology took place. The workshop was organized by a group of engaged Indian Agricultural Information Specialists and coordianted by Dr. Jai Haravu. The workshop was sponsored by ICRISAT and FAO.

I had a meeting this morning at the Italian Ministry of Agriculture, in which participated the Undersecretary Stefano Boco, Paolo Dini from the London School of Economics, Francesco Nachira Section Head (Digital Ecosystems) from the European Commission and representatives di T6, an Italian non for profit private company,

The Egyptian NARIMSteam succeeded today to import more than 38.000 records into they system. These 38.000 records contain information about Egyptian Agricultural publications and they were available for decades only through AGRIS. This is a major success in using the AGRIS systems for national capacity building!

But when politicians look only one or two weeks ahead, we, the citizens, should compel them to look one or two years ahead. When they raise their sights to one or two years, we should insist on ten or twenty. We should not demand the impossible of them; just the nearly impossible. Demand it of them and of ourselves. For we are the thousand million, that never have spoken yet.