The K-AGRINET management team - from DAP, PCARRD, PhilRice, and DAR in their last meeting for December 18, 2006 held at the DAP, Ortigas Center. In the background in the Pinoy Farmers’ Mobile Internet Bus (MIB) a mobile internet training facility to bring internet in agricultural extension workers and farmers in the remote areas of [...]
This custom built mobile internet training facility is operated by the Open Academy for Philippine Agriculture (OPAPA), a component project of the K-AGRINET project. It is an old 1991 Mitsubishi Rosa microbus, converted into a mobile internet training center - complete with 10 notebook computers with WeRoam internet, LCD projection system, surround-sound audio speaker system [...]
Open Academy for Philippine Agriculture area managers meet at the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI), Elliptical Road, Diliman, Quezon City last December 19, 2006 during the final Advisory Council meeting for the year. L-R Dr. Virgilio Gonzales of PAC, Dr. Danilo Pacoy of USEP, Mr. Virgilio Oliva of USM, Jr., Roger Barroga, program director, Dr. Orlando [...]
ICRISAT Director General Dr. William Dar (in pink shirt and jacket) got onboard the Pinoy MIB to see firsthand the first mobile internet training facility for agricultural extension workers. He was here to attend the final meeting for 2006 of the Advisory Council last December 19, 2006. The Open Academy for Philippine Agriculture project is [...]
