Digital Villages Initiative (DVI) in Asia and the Pacific

The FAO Regional Office in Asia and the Pacific (FAO RAP) implements the DVI through technical assistance to Member Countries by supporting digital agriculture strategies and rural digitalization initiatives following country-led, user-centered, bottom and flexible solutions to the digitalization of rural areas. Under DVI, FAO contributes to knowledge sharing via an annual Digital Agriculture Solutions Forum (DASF) for Asia and the Pacific and through the Digital Villages Initiative Knowledge Exchange (DVI-KE), a regional platform and database of digital solutions for agrifood systems in Asia and the Pacific.

The Digital Villages Initiative Knowledge Exchange (DVI-KE) is a regional platform and database of digital solutions, initiatives, and villages covering the entire agrifood systems in Asia and the Pacific. Version 1.0 of DVI-KE covers 500 digital solutions from 20 Asian and Pacific countries. The DVI-KE offers a searchable database by country, digital solution theme, type of developer, primary beneficiaries or delivery modality. Learn more how to use the platform with this video tutorial. 

 

 

Upcoming Event The Thirty-seventh Session of the Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (#APRC37) will be held as a high-level Ministerial in-person event in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 19 – 22 February 2024. It will be preceded by the Senior Officers Meeting (SOM) to be held virtually from 31 January to 2 February 2024. The state of food and agriculture in the region; agrifood systems transformation; and solutions particularly for smallholders and family farmers will be discussed.

Digital Agriculture Solutions Forum for Asia and the Pacific (DASF 2023)
27-28 September 2023 | Bangkok, Thailand

Co-organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), The DASF 2023 overall theme was: “From solutions to ecosystem development: “From solutions to ecosystem development: Scaling up promising digital innovations and lowering barriers to deployment and to persistent digital divide”.

Pacific Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Solutions Forum
28 November 2022 | Apia, Samoa

Under the theme “Working together to leave no one behind” the 2022 Pacific SIDS Solutions Forum is organized to follow up and build on the global SIDS Solutions Forum of 2021 through identifying country-specific and regional successes (good practices), challenges and next steps within the context of advancing the achievement of the SAMOA Pathway and 2030 agenda in the context of COVID-19 and the 5F crisis (food, fuel, feed, fertilizer, and financing) recovery.

Digital Village Initiative in Asia and the Pacific: Country experiences in agrifood digital transformation
18 October 2022 | Bangkok, Thailand | Online

As part of the FAO Science and Innovation Forum, This side event present FAO DVI experience in Asia through 4 country experiences including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam.

Other Regional DVIs

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• DVI in Africa
• DVI in Central Europe & Asia
• DVI in Latin America & the Caribbean

DVI Related

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• FAO Agro-informatics
• e-Agriculture Community of Practice
• Global Network of Digital Agriculture Innovation Hubs
  
• FAO Flagship Hand-in-Hand Initiative
• Regional Technical Platform on Green Agriculture

Contact us

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Aziz Elbehri
Senior Economist & Digital Agriculture Lead
FAO Regional Office for Asia & the Pacific
[email protected]