ICRISAT with The Adarsha Mahila Samaikhya, IIT-Bombay and ISRO

Use of open learning methods and ICT in content exchange

Virtual Academy for the Semi Arid Tropics

Mobile phones

Two-way video conference

Community radio

trials in micro-level

drought vulnerability

assessment using GIS

The VASAT is a virtual

coalition of experts,

rural families and their

organizations who accept

that knowledge is at the core

of drought preparedness

Who counts?

Mobile phones

Two-way video conference

Community radio

trials in micro-level

drought vulnerability

assessment using GIS

The VASAT is a virtual

coalition of experts,

rural families and their

organizations who accept

that knowledge is at the core

of drought preparedness

Nov 2009