Gansu Internet-plus Based Socialized Agricultural Service System Project

Agriculture in Gansu is going hi-tech. An ADB project is developing inclusive IT-based agricultural service systems in the People’s Republic of China’s north-central province.



ADB’s Gansu Internet-plus Based Socialized Agricultural Service System Project is supporting the application of ICT solutions in the agriculture sector. ADB’s Jan Hinrichs presents the project’s objectives, target outputs, and implementation plan.

Data-driven Agriculture: Empowering Smallholders via Technology

Data is defining is the future of agriculture. Discover the work of Pessl Instruments in using data to improve agricultural production.

Pessl Instruments’ Vishnu Nair presents state-of-the-art, climate-smart technology for gathering and processing field and weather data that can be useful in the agriculture sector, particularly for small farmers and small-to-medium enterprises. Pessl Instruments has been producing reliable and inexpensive measuring instruments for more than 30 years.

Agricultural Transformation: The Evolution of Knowledge-Intensive Agriculture

Discover how knowledge innovations and solutions, especially ICTs, are transforming the agriculture sector.

Knowledge-intensive agriculture is the wave of the future. ADB's Mahfuz Ahmed, in this keynote address at ADB's Knowledge-Intensive Agriculture Workshop on 15-16 June 2017, traces the major historical shifts that paved the way for the emergence of knowledge-intensive agriculture and how technological innovations are charting the future of the industry. Ahmed concludes with implications and challenges such developments bring and how these may be addressed.

ICT in Energy - Conference Proceedings

ICT can play a vital role for energy sector development. For universal energy access, ICT is transforming the business models to connect those unconnected to the traditional energy grid. For renewable energy growth, ICT is vital to manage the distributed nature of renewable energy sources. ICT can play an important role in energy conservation and efficiency through controlling and monitoring of the information on energy demand and supply.

Information and Communication Technology for People

Information and communication technology (ICT) for people can help end poverty and hunger, ensure healthy lives and quality education, achieve gender equality, and provide water and sanitation for all.

Sustainable Development Goals 1–6 see to people: they mean to end poverty and hunger, ensure healthy lives and quality education, achieve gender equality, and provide water and sanitation for all. ICT can quicken upscaling; cut deployment costs; augment awareness, inclusiveness, and engagement; stimulate connectivity, productivity, efficiency, and innovation; and raise quality.