Planting the knowledge seed: Adapting to climate change using ICTs Concepts, current knowledge and innovative examples

This publication (2009) takes you on a journey to explore the practical linkages between climate change, access to and sharing of information and knowledge, communication for development and ICTs in general. More specifically, it considers how everyday information and communication tools such as radios, mobile phones, personal computers, the internet and interactive media can help reduce the risks of climate change faced by the most vulnerable segments of the global village through providing access to and the sharing of timely information and critical knowledge.
The target audience of this publication are not experts on ICTs or climate change, but rather development practitioners and policy makers overall: those who will be faced with the need to interpret the demands of climate change, and apply these to their work in the context of the possibilities afforded by ICTs.

More specifically, the publication aims to:

• Provide an overview of linking the strategic use of ICTs to climate change

• Summarise the discussions and conclusions of the BCO Learning Day on ICTs and Climate Change held in December 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa

• Demonstrate innovative applications through concrete project examples

• Start a dialogue and stimulate a debate about the added value and applicability of ICTs in climate change programmes.

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• Preface
• 1. Overview of publication
• 2. Including the excluded: Connecting climate change and ICTs
• 2.1. Introduction
• 2.2. What is at stake?
• 2.3. Using ICTs as an enabling tool for more effective development programmes
• 2.4. The role of ICTs in meeting the climate change challenge
• 2.5. ICTs, climate change adaptation and development
• 2.6. Beyond access: The role of voice, communication and the interactive media
• 2.7. Awareness raising and capacity development of all development stakeholders
• 2.8. Conclusion
• 3. Innovative approaches and examples: Working close to the ground
• 3.1. Africa: Building bridges through community radio and ICTs for development
• 3.2. India: “Knowledge connectivity”: The Integrated Knowledge System on Climate Change Adaptation
• 3.3. Peru: ICTs and food security: The case of Huaral Valley
• 3.4. Madagascar: Survival strategies: Participatory video project
• 3.5. South Asia: Online Media Campaign on Climate Change: Notes towards an intervention
• 3.6. Ecuador: First steps: Information and knowledge advocacy for climate change amongst small-scale farmers
• 4. Report back: BCO Learning Day on ICTs and Climate Change
• 5. Conclusions and recommendations
• 5.1. General conclusions
• 5.2. Specific conclusions from innovative examples for practical application
• 6. About the organisations
• 7. About the contributors
• 8. Annexes to Section 2: Including the excluded
• 9. Abbreviations and selected links