Dileepkumar, G and Nagarajan, R and Rao, A V R K and Balaji, V (2007) Village Knowledge Centers and the Use of GIS-derived Products in Enhancing Micro-level Drought Preparedness: a Case study from South Central India. In: Proceeding of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication , 5-16 December 2007, Bangalore, India .
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Abstract
Drought affects hundreds of millions of people in the developing world and causes serious disruption of social and economic activities. Preparedness is better than relief and information is the backbone of drought preparedness. In this paper we report the results from a study in the use of GIS- derived products to assess micro-level drought vulnerability, taking a cluster of 17 villages in the South Central India as the study area. An internet-connected rural information center, linked to village knowledge centers, played a key role in testing the utility of this product, and the associated local-level predictions for seasonal rainfall.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | Others > Information Science |
| Depositing User: | Mr Sanat Kumar Behera |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Dec 2011 06:17 |
| Last Modified: | 05 May 2015 07:45 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/4854 |
| Acknowledgement: | We are grateful to Mrs Vimalamma, Mrs Narmadamma, Mrs Chandrakala and Ms Madhavi of the AMS for the guidance they have given and for their participation. They deserve to be co-authors of this paper. We are also grateful to Mr V Ramnaresh, Mr G Venkat and Mr Gaurav Mishra. The study was supported by both the institutions |
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