Transforming human-nature relations through mobile information services (C04)

• Subject Area: Human Geography
• Term: from 2018 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 328966760

This project studies how ‘smart’ technologies in agriculture form a decisive part of futuremaking in rural Africa today. Focusing on mobile information services in the Kenyan Rift Valley and the Kilombero Valley in Tanzania, the project (1) puts the visions that guide the practical field of ICT4D into their historical context, (2) follows the translation of future-related knowledge into concrete information and advice, and (3) investigates how m-services actually inform local agricultural practices and thus contribute to socio-ecological transformation.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 228: Future Rural Africa: Future-making and social-ecological transformation
• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Julia Verne