Abstract
There is a mismatch between research output and farmers' ICT practices. In this case study in the former Transkei and Ciskei Homelands, 48 small-scale farmers were approached to understand the factors that impede ICTs use to access agricultural information. The farmers were found to use and see the usefulness of ICTs basically in terms of social interactions and the most frequent used ICTs by respondents are mobile phone (100%) followed by radio (58.3%), Television (18.8%), Internet (10.4%) and news paper (6.3%). There is a need to do an in-depth research about e-skills of the farmers and other factors that may be causing hindrance to the usage of other recent advances of Internet and ICTs for seeking information.
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Fosu, A., & Van Greunen, D. (2020). ICTs usage among rural communities in the information age: A case study of small scale farmers in eastern cape province South Africa. In Proceedings of the 13th IADIS International Conference ICT, Society and Human Beings 2020, ICT 2020 and Proceedings of the 6th IADIS International Conference Connected Smart Cities 2020, CSC 2020 and Proceedings of the 17th IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities and Social Media 2020, WBC 2020 - Part of the 14th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, MCCSIS 2020 (pp. 73–80). IADIS. https://doi.org/10.33965/ict_csc_wbc_2020_202008l010
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