Title :
Information and communication technology policy framework for improving rice farmers in Thailand
Author :
Sangbuapuan, Norrasing
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng. & Technol., Asian Inst. of Technol., Pathumthani, Thailand
Abstract :
This paper presents the ICT policy framework to enhance the farmers´ knowledge, which leads to the better cropping yield and strengthen the rice production yield through Community Rice Centers. This also leads to the development of research methodological framework and design to support the topic, as a useful guide and helpful contribution in accomplishing the ICT management processes. This framework includes details about the required ICT & human infrastructure and human capital problems solving, as well as the best practices model. Finally, we are attempting to develop the ICT policies framework in order to address these issues.
Keywords :
crops; farming; government data processing; government policies; labour resources; Community Rice Centers; ICT management processes; ICT policy framework; Thailand; cropping yield; human capital problems; human infrastructure; information and communication technology policy framework; research methodological framework development; rice farmers knowledge; rice production yield; Agriculture; Communications technology; Communities; Economics; Government; Meteorology; Production; Community Rice Centers (CRC); ICT Policy; ICT Policy Framework; ICT Policy Implementation; Rice Farmers;
Conference_Titel :
Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT), 2013 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baku
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6419-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICAICT.2013.6722688