Virtual Academy For The Semi-Arid Tropics (VASAT)
Virtual Academy for the Semi-Arid Tropics (VASAT)is a strategic coalition for information, communication and capacity building, operating in South Asia (SA) and West and Central Africa (WCA) . VASAT links and mobilizes stakeholders for drought mitigation in the semi-arid tropics. It is an innovative and cost effective medium to educate and support a critical mass of rural women and men spread across vast geographical areas by informing them about drought and desertification.
VASAT ingrains a triple-helix approach in all its activities. Source of Agricultural Information, Innovative ICT4D delivery mechanisms. VASAT focus on the need to build advanced online content organization for agricultural sciences has led to the development of a semantically-enabled Mediawiki service by ICRISAT. It also contributed to the design and development of the Agropedia by a team of computer scientists and engineers at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
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