Empowering Smart Communities: Electrification, Education, and Sustainable Entrepreneurship in IEEE Smart Village Initiatives

Anderson, Alexander; Loomba, Paras; Orajaka, Ifeanyi; Numfor, Jude; Saha, Shammya Shananda; Janko, Samantha; Johnson, Nathan G.; Podmore, Robin; Larsen, R.

doi:10.1109/mele.2017.2685738

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“…Furthermore, it is noteworthy to state that existing smart village projects also have unique challenges. Notable amongst the challenges faced by smart villages within the IEEE project is the issue of maintenance and repairs [ 96 ]. Although as part of the project framework, two individuals are often selected and trained within the villages to fix damaged smart inputs, when demands for these inputs become high, the number of technicians might no longer be sufficient to cater for repair and maintenance needs.…”

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Smart and Climate-Smart Agricultural Trends as Core Aspects of Smart Village Functions

Adesipo

Fadeyi

Kuča

et al. 2020

Sensors

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Attention has shifted to the development of villages in Europe and other parts of the world with the goal of combating rural–urban migration, and moving toward self-sufficiency in rural areas. This situation has birthed the smart village idea. Smart village initiatives such as those of the European Union is motivating global efforts aimed at improving the live and livelihood of rural dwellers. These initiatives are focused on improving agricultural productivity, among other things, since most of the food we eat are grown in rural areas around the world. Nevertheless, a major challenge faced by proponents of the smart village concept is how to provide a framework for the development of the term, so that this development is tailored towards sustainability. The current work examines the level of progress of climate smart agriculture, and tries to borrow from its ideals, to develop a framework for smart village development. Given the advances in technology, agricultural development that encompasses reduction of farming losses, optimization of agricultural processes for increased yield, as well as prevention, monitoring, and early detection of plant and animal diseases, has now embraced varieties of smart sensor technologies. The implication is that the studies and results generated around the concept of climate smart agriculture can be adopted in planning of villages, and transforming them into smart villages. Hence, we argue that for effective development of the smart village framework, smart agricultural techniques must be prioritized, viz-a-viz other developmental practicalities.

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Smart and Climate-Smart Agricultural Trends as Core Aspects of Smart Village Functions

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Fadeyi

Kuča

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Sensors

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“…Planning (Kumar, 2019;Prinsloo et al, 2018), intervention and government concern contribute to the attainment of smart village (Kumar, 2019). Consideration process on rural authenticity of prod-uct, consumption, practices, software, intra-and inter-coherency or how village represents their originality (Frisvoll, 2013), social as well as environment analysis (Anderson et al, 2017) and growth evaluation process (Edwards & Haines, 2007) are several forming process towards sustainable rural development. Sustainability of rural environment should also become main concern along the process towards smart village.…”

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Community-based development and collective learning: How does a local community engage and learn to initiate a smart village development?

Suryani

Soedarso

2021

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The aim of this study is examining learning process undertaken by Klagen, Nganjuk local community in their journey to transform their rural area into a smart village ad what they need to promote their collective learning. The data are collected through two main methods: community dialogue and direct participant observations during village visits and business training, particularly for Klagen’s youth. Thematic analysis, which is grounded on empowerment steps, is performed to interpret the gathered data. Many previous studies examine the outcome of smart village, as the end product. Differently, this study aims to explore the process to develop a smart village, especially at the initial stage and presents development-community education interfaces. The study indicates that to transform their village into a smart village, Klagen community should collaboratively engage in community sharing in which they build shared vision to change, integrate ideas, thinking and social-cultural analysis, observational learning in which they learn from neighbor village model, partnership seeking in which they explore potential networking outside their village area and business-entrepreneurship learning in which the young people learn how to initiate and manage local business. Klagen community needs to integrate their local knowledge, self-building capacity-resources with the empowered skills and knowledge. This study provides an integrated knowledge on education, particularly community education and smart village development, which is a proliferated rural development approach in Indonesia context nowadays. The discussion in this paper is limited to the initial stage of Klagen continuing journey to be a smart village. In this initial stage, the process is focusing on exploring socially and culturally relevant smart village (finding smart village identity), planning and preparing Klagen’s human resources through education.

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“…The initiative of smart village which rapidly flourishes and becomes a new trend in Indonesia is relevant to the new paradigm of integrated rural development. A smart rural is not only relying its' growth on agricultural commodities, but also multidevelopment activities on the basis of agriculture/farming, for instance entrepreneurship, technology, business, energy, tourism (Anderson et al, 2017;Fennell et al, 2018;Prinsloo et al, 2017;Shukla, 2016). A smart rural is associated with both community as agricultural producers and community as entrepreneurs, innovators, selfempowered and resilient people (McManus et al, 2012;Phahlamohlaka et al, 2014;Ristianti, 2016).…”

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Why We Should Talk? The Potentials of Community Dialog in Grounding an Integrated Rural Development

Suryani

Soedarso

Endarko

et al. 2020

J. Asian Rural Stud.

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Rural development is a social process. It involves local community in all stages of development. Community dialog is a means for facilitating community involvement in determining a development direction, potential development plan and development sus-tainability in the future. Frequently, local community is considered as the development target. This position puts them just being development watchers, spectators, silent and passive recipients. Moreover, these silent roles make them remain unempowered since they do not know how to determine their future, how to take part in collective decision and feel being neglected. This study examines potentials of community involvement in dialog. A qualitative research paradigm is adopted. The data are collected byrecording, transcribing and analyzing community dialog at Klagen, Nganjuk, Jawa Timur. The study finds that community dialog offers considerable potentials. The first potential of community dialog is generating local community commitment, awareness, sense of belongingness and supportive character to build their own homeland. These positive development psychological states,characters and ethos are soft human dimensions which can be critical drivers in rural development. The second is creation of local knowledge and scientific knowledge joint enabling innovation and collective learning process. This joint-knowledge allows the combination of local wisdom and scientific insight. The third is building shared or collective development vision and plan. This plan and vision allow the development prioritizing process and development of rural strength, potential competitive advantage and resource building. The fourth is expanding rural networking and exercising rural people capacity to build wider internal and external social relationship.

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Empowering Smart Communities: Electrification, Education, and Sustainable Entrepreneurship in IEEE Smart Village Initiatives

Cited by 45 publications

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Smart and Climate-Smart Agricultural Trends as Core Aspects of Smart Village Functions

Smart and Climate-Smart Agricultural Trends as Core Aspects of Smart Village Functions

Community-based development and collective learning: How does a local community engage and learn to initiate a smart village development?

Why We Should Talk? The Potentials of Community Dialog in Grounding an Integrated Rural Development

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