ICT FOR AGRICULTURALICT FOR AGRICULTURALCO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIESCO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES

TEACHER AND SERVICE TEACHER AND SERVICE PROVIDER SEMINARPROVIDER SEMINAR

Industry ExperienceIndustry Experience

Nairobi, 7Nairobi, 7thth December 2010 December 2010

Rop KiplagatRop Kiplagat

Fear of ICTFear of ICT

Leads to slow up-take

of ICT

We Tell them We Tell them

ICT Pays for it self

ICT Skills managementICT Skills management

ICT literate commitee embrace ICT

For Successful ICTFor Successful ICT

•Involve staff - ownership•Assure staff of their jobs•Staff training•Work-flow•Success stories•ICT Plan

ICT PrioritizationICT Prioritization

Coops have money ICT low priority

unscrupulous ICT Vendorsunscrupulous ICT Vendors

-Unplanned -no end result-Involve all

-SAD

Scale of computerizationScale of computerization

-modular-SLA

Debate

• Budget a bottleneck of Computerization?