Rinfo 1- a One Stop Information System for Rural Development- a Prototype

摘要

The proposed paper focuses on developing a new approach to provide rural information service with experts' interactive system, to the rural extension community. The proposed portal tentatively we named as Rinfol, which is using open source/free, toolssuch as PrimaGIS, GRASS, OpenJUMP, MapServer and GeoVISTA Studio for Geovisualization of sensor data and Plone as a Content Management System (CMS) and Skype for Interactive Voice System (VIS). Our aim is to give a cost effective, robust rural information system with expert interactive service to the rural extension community to assist for better and mutual decision making in omnipresent manner.Rinfol provides (1) Land Information (LI) which will give both on parcel and non-parcel basis information, (2) Agriculture Information (AI) about crop and pest management aspects at different levels of admissible spatial limits and (3) Watershed Information (WI) to support in thematic information raster and vector modes, on watershed basis.It is also proposed to utilize Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) for providing online information service on dynamic weather, agriculture and its related information to the rural community as a part of Indo-Japan GeoICT and Sensor Network project. Based on the WSN entity, plan to generate the sensor database and its corresponding thematic maps to monitor/mitigate/protect abrasive weather/agriculture systems.Rinfol integrating with Multi Evaluation Decision Support System (ME DSS) for enhances judicial decision making spatial and non-spatial querying entity. Plans are also afoot to provide rural information service through Village Resource Centre (VRC) in atypical semi-arid tract in India.