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Rinfo1- a One Stop Information System for Rural Development– a Prototype

Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org

Citation:  7th World Congress on Computers in Agriculture Conference Proceedings, 22-24 June 2009, Reno, Nevada (electronic only)  711P0409e.(doi:10.13031/2013.29100)
Authors:   Adinarayana J , Sudhrsan D , Amiya Kumar Tripathy
Keywords:   Information Communication Technology, Geographical Information and Communication Technology, Open Source Geographical Information System

The proposed paper focuses on developing a new approach to provide rural information service with experts interactive system, to the rural extension community. The proposed portal tentatively we named as Rinfo1, which is using open source/free, tools such as PrimaGIS, GRASS, OpenJUMP, MapServer and GeoVISTA Studio for Geovisualization of sensor data and Plone as a Content Management System (CMS) and Skype for Interactive Voice System (VIS). Our aim is to give a cost effective, robust rural information system with expert interactive service to the rural extension community to assist for better and mutual decision making in omnipresent manner.

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