The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) sponsored the WSIS Forum Session entitled, ‘Building a Framework for Digital Innovation in Agriculture’ under the WSIS Action Line C7-ICT Applications (e-Agriculture).
The session advocated for the enhancement of digital innovation for the poorest within agriculture through developing a framework of application to support them. Digital innovation and ICTs have a great potential to transform the approach in 17 SDGs, yet within FAO scope also particularly 1, 2, 8, and 13.
Mr. James AzevedoGorgen, from the digital innovation team in FAO facilitated this meeting, which had remote participation announced on the e-Agriculture platform, had also ITU participation stakeholders in E-Agriculture present at WSIS 2018
The following presentations were held :-
Read the session published summary here
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