There seems to be a lot of potential in the use of mobile phones for ‘communication for development’
ICARDA KSinR Project uses mobile phones for knowledge sharing. Nadia Manning-Thomas posted on the KS Blog about a Pilot Project run by The International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas

[by way of Christian Kreutz on Del.icio.us]

Additionally the conference organizers uploaded small story clips onto mobile phones of farmers present and showed them how to send these to other farmers with mobile phones. This was done to stimulate some knowledge sharing and a sort of farmer-to-farmer extension system to help facilitate the spread of useful ideas, techniques and knowledge around agricultural activities, specifically plant breeding.