Nicaragua Creates Innovative Agricultural Information System With Open Source

johanneswilm writes "Nicaragua is the second-poorest country of the Americas. It is now also the Latin American country with the most capable web-based information system for agriculture, thanks to open source software. ALBAstryde itself is open source, and it is based on Django and jQuery. It allows the user to play with the data, and its reach is further extended by a net of radio stations which are broadcasting the numbers to remote peasants, who thereby, for the first time ever, get up to date data on prices and general production levels in the country. The implementation for the ministry of agriculture of Nicaragua already contains live data."

Comments

hmmm.

[gandhi_2]

$('plant .coca').harvest('fast');

Good Job

[royallthefourth]

So Nicaragua comes out and does something really interesting and in response we subject their 400 mhz K6-2 server to the Slashdot Effect. Whose idea was this? Henry Kissinger?

Re:Good Job

[jedidiah]

Geeks are a scary lot when they hate you.

They're even a scarier lot when they LOVE you.

So...

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

How long before Microsoft announces "Microsoft Hinterland ShareCrop Server 2010" to compete?

Re:North America Ag systems

[BJ_Covert_Action]

...of various local markets for everything from cattle to hay to everything in between....

I didn't realize there was a market for bovine stomachs and intestines....then again I don't really eat at McDonald's....

Re:Vaporware

[hyades1]

Yeah, those hurricanes never do as much damage as those Third World socialist creeps try to claim (cough) Katrina (cough). If they weren't socialists, there wouldn't be a problem.