Digital Initiatives
Digital Initiatives (DI) enable interventions, programmes or actions supporting targeted digitalization objectives. They sit somewhere between policies and strategies and specific digital innovations (or solutions). DI can be either led, co-led, or endorsed by government agencies or through multi-actors. DI can target specific digital solutions or promote enabling conditions for digital ecosystem development covering technical, financial, governance, or capacity needs of innovation developers and users and beneficiaries.
| NAME | Country | Lead developer | Primary beneficiaries |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAM-Science Initiative (Smart Irrigation System) |  Cambodia |
Private enterprise (Agritech startup) | Farmers |
| Digital Mapping System (DMS) |  Philippines |
Government agency | Farmers, Community-Based Organizations (CBOs), Farm organizations |
| Digital soil-health cards |  India |
Government agency | Farmers |
| Direct Benefit Transfers of Fertiliser subsidy - AeFDS (Aadhaar enabled Fertilizer Distribution System) | India |
Government agency | Farmers, Agribusiness / private organization |
| Drones for Mongolia's agriculture |  Mongolia |
Multi-partners | Farmers, Government |
| e-Chautari initiative (Geokrishi) |  Nepal |
Private-public partnership | Farmers, Farm organizations |
| e-choupal | India |
Private company | Farmers, Traders (or marketing agents), Village/community leaders, General public/rural areas populations |
| E-Mongolia Initiative | Mongolia |
Government agency | General public/rural areas populations, Government |
| E-Zaraat by CABI Centre Pakistan (E-Agriculture) |  Pakistan |
Multi-partners | Farmers, Extension agents, Village/community leaders |
| Electronic Voucher System for Cyclone Recovery |  Samoa |
Private-public partnership | Farmers, Fishermen |
To contribute new digital initiatives download the template and mail it back to RAP-DVI@fao.org