The Agritools project is a virtual center where people can exchange information and make contact with other ICT users working in the countryside. Agritools is the first multimedia research project that tries to explain how innovative African technologies and technology-based start-ups are revolutionizing the agri-business sector and promoting the development of rural cultural and political values.
The overall objective of Agritools is to investigate the resulting impact that this digital revolution is having on the lives of local people and their relationship to land, nutrition and traditions.
The secondary objectives are:
-To educate, inspire and encourage youth to contribute to the growth of the primary sector through ICT innovation.
-To give a voice to the local population, offering them an opportunity to share their experience and knowledge to a wide audience (local, global).
-Stimulate curiosity about Africa by deconstructing stereotypes in the international media.
Agritools is creating a new model for sustainable agricultural development by facilitating innovation in the agricultural sector, networking farmers using technology to change primary sector practices and telling the story of how digital innovation is transforming agriculture.

http://www.agritools.org/le-projet

• Ghana
• Italy
• Kenya
• Netherlands
• Senegal
• Uganda

• Remote and rural communities
• Young entrepreneurs, start-ups, organizations and business incubators.

The Agritools project is replicable in two (02) steps :

a) A group of people, a planter or an organization that leads an ICT project in the primary sector (Agriculture, fishing, livestock) should write a story and send their experiences to be published in the Agritools charter and in the e-agriculture platform, with the possibility of making an innovative network and give visibility to their project.

b) The next step is the creation of local centers for young people interested in the subject, who will be able to explore the sector and sensitize other young people to work in agriculture.

Agritools is open to welcome people from across Africa interested in starting a local group and replicating Agritools in their country.

The Agritools project offers future generations (younger generations) a huge opportunity to create new ways of doing business, giving them the need to reclaim their land, give value to that land, and help enhance local development, where technologies and innovations are able to offer new and fun solutions as opposed to the older generation where farming was generally considered an occupation with little possibility of success.

The Agritools project promotes WSIS values through e-agriculture with cell phone applications that improve agricultural services provided in rural and remote areas. Also, the Agritools project has opened several Facebook groups where organizations and young people involved in the sector can exchange information, discuss how ICTs and agriculture meet and work together to solve agricultural problems on the ground.