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    How to Create Vibrant Smart Villages in the World
    How to Create Vibrant Smart Villages in the World
    How to Create Vibrant Smart Villages in the World
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    How to Create Vibrant Smart Villages in the World

    By Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka

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    Smart village is the most decentralized system which would empower people to efficiently use various services and systems. Enable communities to address the challenges in their respective occupations and daily life. Accessing and using technologies in their respective work makes a person smart.
    Farmers are the main stakeholders in the villages, who manage their livelihoods through mitigation, adaptation or through traditional sustainable practices. Several technologies developed in recent times are adopted by farmers in rural areas.
    In a smart village, people use technologies, adopt practices, do networking, use communication technologies and are innovative. The smartness will reduce the hard work of farmers and have a better chance to reduce vulnerabilities in the present scenario.
    With increased mobile smartphones usage and access to cheap broadband internet connectivity, there are many possibilities for smart monitoring and management of things. The people have access to information and are also able to communicate across.
    Especially in the farming sector, the factors and the associated uncertainties are more. The decision making is based on controlled and uncontrolled factors. Understanding the uncontrolled factors using technologies is smartness.
    The monitoring systems are becoming cheaper and reliable. The data collected is huge. The Big-Data processing for decision making is becoming a huge task. Where Artificial Intelligence based on the empirical data, learning models and belief systems are being developed. Although initially, the decision support systems could be discrete, over a period there is a need to integrate the systems for aggregate decision making.
    Working hard with smartness empowers people and communities towards sustainable development.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka
    Release dateDec 17, 2019
    ISBN9780463848142
    How to Create Vibrant Smart Villages in the World
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    Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka

    I am involved in Environment and Development work for the past 25 years. Contributing to Climate Resilience, Environmental Sustainability, Disaster Risk Reduction, Rural Energy - good stoves, biochar, Water Resources, and Agriculture. An innovator, writer, podcaster, lecturer, presenter, and development professional.

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      How to Create Vibrant Smart Villages in the World - Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka

      Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka

      How to Create Vibrant Smart Villages in the World

      For a Sustainable Future

      Copyright © 2019 by Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka

      Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet Websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

      This is a concept document on the issue of making villages and communities smart. All the information presented in this book is declared as Open Knowledge, except the photos and information referenced from other sources and acknowledged in the book. Contact: saibhaskarnakka@gmail.com

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      Contents

      Preface

      I. NATURAL

      Water Management

      Soil Management

      Recycle and reuse

      Spatial Knowledge

      Weather and Climate Change

      II. PHYSICAL

      Greenhouse and polytunnel

      Vertical Garden

      Hydroponics

      Floatigation

      Sewagigation

      Rootigation and Sapigation

      LED Crops

      Urban integrated farms

      Services

      Living Habitats

      Smart storage systems

      Non-conventional and renewable energy

      III. HUMAN

      IT enabled decision support

      Learning

      Rural services

      IV. FINANCIAL

      Institutional support

      V. SOCIAL

      Health services

      Healthy Kitchens by Farmers

      VI. INNOVATIVE INITIATIVES

      School Labs as facilitating hubs

      References

      Preface

      Smart village is the most decentralized system which would empower people to efficiently use various services and systems. Enable communities to address the challenges in their respective occupations and daily life. Accessing and using technologies in their respective work makes a person smart.

      Farmers are the main stakeholders in the villages, who manage their livelihoods through mitigation, adaptation or through traditional sustainable practices. Several technologies developed in recent times were also adopted by the farmers in rural areas. Farmer tries all means and experiments to reduce the vulnerability.

      In a smart village, people use technologies, adopt practices, do networking, use communication technologies and are innovative. The smartness will reduce the hard-work of farmers and have a better chance to reduce vulnerabilities in the present scenario.

      With increased mobile smartphones usage and access to cheap broadband internet connectivity, there are many possibilities for smart monitoring and management of things. The people have access to information and are also able to communicate across.

      Especially in the farming sector, the factors and the associated uncertainties are more. The decision making is based on the controlled and uncontrolled factors. Understanding the uncontrolled factors using technologies is the smartness.

      The monitoring systems are becoming

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