e-Chautari initiative (Geokrishi)

e-Chautari initiative is a community-based initiative for training and advisory services for farmers. The initiative, managed by Pathway Technologies and Services Pvt Ltd., serves as a hub equiped with internet connectivity that provide bundled solutions and services to smallholder farmers. e-Chautaries are housed in municipality and ward offices, cooperatives and farmer based organisations allowing an easy access to timely and contextualized information and knowledge products. Each e-Chautari has an assigned progressive farmer to facilitate its activities and serve as digital champions.

Lead (category)

Private-public partnership

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

Pathway Technologies and Services Pvt Ltd.

Categories of Digital initiative deliverables

Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery

ICT products/solutions and services by category

Digital Agriculture

Digital Social Services (Education, Health, Skills)

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

Farmers training in ICT solutions

Business and governance structure

Private developer working within local government structure (municipality)

DI ICT-deliverables format

Mobile applications

Web-based platform

Interactive data exchanges

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Farmers

Farm organizations

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

Digital Initiative development Stage

Fully operational - Growing and expanding stage

Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries

Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)

National

All over Nepal

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DI webpage

Other useful link

Other useful link

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution