Transforming Livelihoods: Ensuring Equity and Sustainability Through ICT
- DOI
- 10.2991/ahsseh.k.220105.010How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Sustainable livelihoods; dairy intervention; digital technology; empowerment; equity; sustainability
- Abstract
Enhancing livelihoods of rural poor is crucial for poverty reduction. Livelihood perspectives started influencing development thinking in the last couple of decades and were considered to provide a holistic understanding of poverty. Sustainable livelihoods concept is built on the notion of capability, equity and sustainability where all of them are considered both ends as well as means. Globally and in the Indian context a number of programmes are getting implemented to enhance the livelihoods of rural poor. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) started playing a pivotal role in implementation of these livelihood programmes. This paper looks at the case of implementation of ICT in a dairy intervention, under Indira Kranthi Patham (IKP), a livelihood enhancement programme. The progamme is implemented by Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP), Government of Telengana. The introduction of digital technologies like Smart Data Processor Milk Collection Unit (SDP-MCU) and Smart Automatic Milk Collection Unit (SAMCU) helped in building trust among dairy farmers and maintaining transparency in the dairy intervention. This also helped in ensuring equity and sustainable livelihoods where rural women from low income households were the primary members in the intervention. Technology coupled with strong community based organizations like Village Milk Producers Organization (VMPO), Mandal Mahila Samakhya (MMS) and ZilaSamakhya (ZS) led to sustainability of the intervention.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press International B.V.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Nirmal Kumar Mandal AU - Srilata Patnaik PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/18 TI - Transforming Livelihoods: Ensuring Equity and Sustainability Through ICT BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability and Equity (ICSE-2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 79 EP - 88 SN - 2667-128X UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsseh.k.220105.010 DO - 10.2991/ahsseh.k.220105.010 ID - Mandal2022 ER -