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| Title: | Does the environment in which ICT-based market information services (MIS) projects operate affect their performance? Experiences from Kenya |
| Authors: | Okello, Julius Juma
Ndirangu, Lydia K. |
| Authors (Email): | Okello, Julius J. (jjokello@gmail.com) |
| Keywords: | ICT-based MIS projects
the DrumNet model
operational environment
performance
Kenya |
| Issue Date: | 2010-09 |
| Abstract: | The need to provide agricultural information to farmers has led to emergence of numerous ICTbased
MIS projects in developing country. These projects aim at promoting commercialization of
smallholder agriculture and subsequently their welfare. This study examines the how the
environment in which such ICT-based MIS affect their performance. It specifically uses the
DrumNet project, an ICT-based MIS, to assess how the socio-economic, physical, political and
physical environment in the project areas affected its performance. The study finds that those
transaction-related problems, especially strategic default, deriving from these environmental
factors greatly undermined the performance of DrumNet forcing it to relocate severally. It
discusses policy implications of these findings. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/96193 |
| Institution/Association: | African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE)>2010 AAAE Third Conference/AEASA 48th Conference, September 19-23, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa |
| Total Pages: | 19 |
| To Page: | 18 |
| Collections: | 2010 AAAE Third Conference/AEASA 48th Conference, September 19-23, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa
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