ICT Basics: Fundamentals of ICT in Agriculture!

Introduction


Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become fundamental to the functioning of our society, quite like electricity and roads. There are a variety of ways agriculture domain harnesses the power of ICT. In order to appreciate how ICT can be used in agriculture, it is important to understand the basic concepts in this space, their functionality and their limitations. This course on ICT Basics will cover the fundamentals of ICT. It will deal with how information is gathered from the real world, stored in the machines, transmitted from machine to machine. It will talk about how the system figures out your location and your identity. Management of servers and services over the Cloud is another fundamental ability, which will be discussed. This course will be followed by advanced courses, which will take you further into ICT applications in modern agriculture.
Who should attend this course?


Being a basic course this should be of interest to everybody who use Cellphones, Computers and various computer based services. In particular, they should be useful to

  • Students of Agriculture Universities
  • Faculty of SAU
  • Agriculture Scientists in ARS
  • NGOs in Agriculture
Course content


Voice and Data Communication Data and Content Management
Location Recognition Knowledge Representation
Identity Management Data Analytics
Parameter Sensing Social Networking
Internet Technologies Cloud Computing
At the end of the course, a participant should know about


  • Website, Web Application
  • Read/write Web, Semantic Web
  • Server Side: Web servers, Search Engines
  • Client side: Browsers, Apps
  • Basics of Cloud Computing
  • Access Devices: Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Smart Phone
  • Communication Technologies: Voice and Data, 2G, 3G, 4G, GSM, CDMA
  • Identity and Location: Who are you and where are you, GPRS, Cell towers, Wifi
  • Data Storage: BMS, Content management, Knowledge representation and storage
Certificates


agMOOCs are offered under the umbrella of NPTEL. Participation certificate and Competency certificate will be given to qualifying students based on their involvement and performance.
For more Information visit:  http://www.agmoocs.in/
Copyright © 2015, agMOOCs.

Documentary Photography: Photos of the Week

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Check out what PJ students at the International Centre of Photography were up to this week.


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Light and Shadow/Soumita Bhattacharya

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Light and Shadow/Soumita Bhattacharya

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Light and Shadow/Soumita Bhattacharya

Grand Central TerminalGrand Central Terminal/Yolande Daeninck

Grand Central TerminalGrand Central Terminal/Yolande Daeninck

Grand Central TerminalGrand Central Terminal/Yolande Daeninck

7PlayingPortraitCamilaSvensonPlaying with Portrait – Camila Svenson/Griselda San Martin

8PlayingPortraitCJPlaying with Portrait – Shih-Chieh Wei/Griselda San Martin

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Playing with Portrait – Fabiana Sala/Griselda San Martin

sara frisby - montauk end of the world-1Montauk End of the World/Sara Frisby

10sara frisby - montauk end of the world-2Montauk End of the World/Sara Frisby

11sara frisby - montauk end of the world-3Montauk End of the World/Sara Frisby

12sara frisby - montauk end of the world-4Montauk End of the World/Sara Frisby

13sara frisby - montauk end of the world-5Montauk End of the World/Sara Frisby

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Portrait – Esteban Kuriel/Shih-Chieh Wei

15Wei_portrait02_20150310Portrait – Esteban Kuriel/Shih-Chieh Wei

16Wei_portrait03_20150310Portrait – Griselda San Martin/Shih-Chieh Wei

New York 14 Arrival on Staten Island/Gareth Smit


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New Theme: Lingonberry

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It’s Theme Thursday, and we’re happy to present a brand new free theme for your enjoyment.

Lingonberry

Lingonberry WordPress theme

Lingonberry is a bright, personable blogging theme by Anders Norén with bold colors and accents and a playful, modern twist. Formatted posts stand out from the rest, space for your site logo adds a personal touch, and footer widget areas for additional content give your posts and pages plenty of room to shine. Lingonberry also adapts to your device, for a flawless reading experience no matter the screen size.

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Football as a Barometer of Italian Society

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“Football is a very simple barometer of a society,” says Paddy Agnew, an Irish Times correspondent and former RAI television commentator who has covered Italian soccer since the 1980s. “And if the red light is flashing in society, the red light is flashing in football. That’s what it is here, they’ve run out of petrol. This is a society — and it is not just football — that has stood still for 30 years.”

You can see many the troubles of Italian life through a lens of Italy’s favorite sport. A struggling economy exerts pressure on the country’s social fabric. High unemployment means plenty of young men living in their parents’ homes with little to do. To cope, many simply dive deeper into their calcio [Italian for football].

Peter Simek, writing in SB Nation about Italian football culture and the Rome-based football club A.S. Roma.

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