INVESTIGADORES
ROBERT Veronica
capítulos de libros
Título:
ICTs and information management (IM) in agriculture: Contributions from an evolutionary approach
Autor/es:
GRACIELA GUTMAN; VERÓNICA ROBERT
Libro:
Information and communication technologies for agricultural development in Latin America: trends, barriers and policies
Editorial:
CEPAL
Referencias:
Lugar: Santiago; Año: 2013; p. 157 - 204
Resumen:
The central aim of this chapter is to present a preliminary outlook on the applications of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the agricultural sector in Latin America (LA) and their impact on farmers? information management (IM). We focus the analysis on the assessment of impacts on learning processes related to data and information accumulation, organization and dissemination. We also considers how these technologies modify, or could potentially transform, the way farmers organize and manage their production and marketing processes. Agriculture is considered in a broad sense ?farmers, agricultural producers and other organizations involved in these activities? as part of agro-industrial systems. The analysis is focused on commercial farms, where ICTs currently have a larger degree of diffusion. The central thesis of this chapter is that in the modern productive and technological context of LAC agriculture the diffusion of ICTs impacts mainly on the information management (IM) of the farm. ICTs work as enabling technologies, improving the possibilities for gathering, processing and transferring information. ICTs do not represent by themselves codified scientific or technological knowledge which demand the application of tacit abilities to be useful; neither do they enhance the farmer?s knowledge capabilities. Rather, ICTs accelerate the farmer?s learning and management processes because they give access to a set of specific techniques for the administration and recombination of information.