agMOOCs ICT Basics Introduction Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have become fundamental to the functioning of our society, quite like electricity and roads. There are a variety of ways agriculture domain harnesses the power of ICT. In order to appreciate how ICT can be used in agriculture, it is important to understand the basic concepts in this space, their functionality and their limitations. This course on ICT Basics will cover the fundamentals of ICT. It will deal with how information is gathered from the real world, stored in the machines, transmitted from machine to machine. It will talk about how the system figures out your location and your identity. Management of servers and services over the Cloud is another fundamental ability, which will be discussed. This course will be followed by advanced courses, which will take you further into ICT applications in modern agriculture. COURSE NAME ICT Basics START DATE March 17, 2015 DURATION 6 Weeks PRE-REQUISTES None REGISTRATION Open and free of charge Faculty Incharge Who should attend ICT Basics course? Being a basic course this should be of interest to everybody who use Cellphones, Computers and various computer based services. In particular, they should be useful to     Students of Agriculture Universities Faculty of SAU Agriculture Scientists in ARS NGOs in Agriculture Prof. T.V. Prabhakar IIT Kanpur Course Team Ms. Revathy KT Mr. Ankur Mishra Course content The course content will cover the basic aspects of ICT, especially with a view to their application in agriculture. Voice and Data Communication Data and Content Management Location Recognition Knowledge Representation Identity Management Data Analytics Parameter Sensing Social Networking Internet Technologies Cloud Computing Mr. Sunil Kumar Singh Mr. Ravi S Mula Mr. Gaurav Shukla Ms. Neha Anand Dr. Neeta Singh Dr. Sharwan Shukla At the end of the course, a participant should know about          Website, Web Application Read/write Web, Semantic Web Server Side: Web servers, Search Engines Client side: Browsers, Apps Basics of Cloud Computing Access Devices: Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Smart Phone Communication Technologies: Voice and Data, 2G, 3G, 4G, GSM, CDMA Identity and Location: Who are you and where are you, GPRS, Cell towers, Wifi Data Storage: DBMS, Content management, Knowledge representation and storage Dr. Kiran Yadav Mr. Deepak Kumar Mr. K.K. Dubey Ms. Helen Askounis Ms. Michelle Gruda powered by Certificates agMOOCs are offered under the umbrella of NPTEL. Participation certificate and Competency certificate will be given to qualifying students based on their involvement and performance. REGISTER AT http://agmoocs.in Contact for more information: [email protected] http://mookit.co