Special #AgEvents Twitter Chat: Low-Cost Video for Ag Development
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At this month's Special Twitter Chat we discussed the use of low-cost video to promote agricultural development, food security, and nutrition. The chat featured experts from Digital Green, Feed the Future KDAD Project, FHI 360, and OMPT all of whom are using video as a tool for agricultural extension and development. The experts shared their experiences and lessons learned with integrating low-cost video. Experts answered questions from the audience on ways low-cost video can benefit them.
This Twitter Chat was a continuation of the webinar, hosted by the USAID SPRING project, which happened the morning of December 17. This webinar can be accessed through Community Video for Agriculture and Nutrition Behavior Change. Click here to find out more about this webinar.
Twitter Accounts to Follow:
| Experts | Featured Contributors |
| • Rikin Gandhi: @DigitalGreenOrg | • SPRING Project: @SPRINGProject2 |
| • Maciej Chmielewski: @Maciej_Chmie | |
| • Josh Woodard: @ICTforAg | |
| • Matt York: @OMPT |
Guiding Questions:
- How are you using video to promote Agricultural Development and improve Nutrition?
- What are some examples of effective agricultural development and nutrition videos?
- What makes a video program sustainable & what partnerships should be in place to ensure it continues?
- What resources do you find most useful in creating your video strategy?
How to participate:
- If you are new to Twitter, visit Twitter.com to sign up for an account. (For more tips on getting started, check out our Twitter training.)
- Explore the guiding questions that will be discussed during the chat.
- Join us for discussion by using the hashtag #AgEvents and by following @Agrilinks.
- You can also follow on Twubs or through the livestream below.
What's a Twitter Chat?
Watch this video to learn about Agrilinks Twitter chats and learn the basics of Twitter through our Twitter 101 & 102 trainings.
Speakers
Rikin Gandhi
Digital Green
Rikin Gandhi is chief executive officer of Digital Green, which he co-founded as a research project while with Microsoft Research India's "Technology for Emerging Markets" team. He now leads the Digital Green spin-off that partners with government and non-governmental agencies to amplify the effectiveness of agricultural development efforts around the world. Rikin’s interests include sustainable agriculture and technology for socioeconomic development, and he has received patents for linguistic search algorithms he helped develop at Oracle. He holds a Master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Maciej Chmielewski
Insight Systems Corporation
Maciej is an international development practitioner working in the field of digital communications. He has more than three years’ experience implementing social media strategies and other digital initiatives. As the communications specialist for the Feed the Future KDAD Project, he helped implement and expand the #AskAg Twitter Chats for USAID’s Bureau for Food Security. He is also responsible for piloting USAID KDMD Project’s digital media strategy which enhanced the curation and dissemination of knowledge for USAID and other implementing partners.
Josh Woodard
FHI 360
Josh is the author of Integrating Low-Cost Video into Agricultural Development Projects: A Toolkit for Practitioners. He has designed and facilitated technical workshops on low-cost video for staff from over 75 different agriculture and health organizations, government agencies, agribusinesses, farmers groups, and schools from over a dozen countries in Africa and Asia. He previously managed USAID’s FACET project, which focused on helping practitioners to more effectively use information and communications technologies to improve agricultural development outcomes. Currently he is the technical manager on USAID’s Mobile Solutions Technical Assistance and Research (mSTAR) project. He has been experimenting with low-cost video and other ICT tools for more than a decade.
Matt York
One Media Player per Teacher
Matt graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in Communications (TV and Film) and English in 1978. In 1986, he founded Videomaker Inc., a leading publisher on video production. With a magazine readership of over 64,000 and the web site's 500,000 monthly visitors, Videomaker Inc.’s mission is to empower individuals to make video through a monthly magazine, website, DVDs, books, and hands-on workshops and conferences.
Branching out of Videomaker Inc., Matt founded OMPT because of his genuine passion to make a difference in the developing world by bringing change through video. OMPT helps organizations accelerate behavior change and knowledge transfer in low-resource environments using simple video production techniques and cordless projectors. Since 2008 Matt has been able to harness his 25 years of expertise in the video consumer electronics industry to grow OMPT from an idea to a thriving nonprofit organization.
Matt's inside knowledge about consumer electronics gear, his tracking of up and coming technologies, and his seasoned relationships with many top decision makers in the major consumer electronics manufacturing firms contribute to his ability to fulfill the mission of OMPT.
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