Digital Farmer Program (DFP)
Philippines
Developed by a private company, Probe Media Foundation, Inc., the Digital Farmer Program (DFP) is a nationwide program in Philippines that strengthens relationships between the youth (potential farmers) and the aging population of farmers. DFP provides farmers and youth with training on new technologies and help them to adopt them in their daily farming practices or livelihood activities. It's a ladderized learning program for small scale-farmers on mobile and internet literacy specifically on teaching basics of media literacy, scriptwriting, digital content creation, multimedia platforms, and the art and ethics of communications. It provides digital literacy for farmers on new farming techniques through technological solutions to boost agricultural productivity and marketability. The program also encourages Filipino youth to pursue agriculture as a career or future profession.
Lead (category)
Private company
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
Probe Media Foundation, Inc.
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Technology-neutral supporting services (incubation, finance, training, etc)
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)
Business and governance structure
Nationwise initiative being implemented by a private company.
DI ICT-deliverables format
Interactive data exchanges
Digital education
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
General public/rural areas populations
Youth networks
Village/community leaders
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place
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 Philippines
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution