Published
2023-01-18

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Cárdenas, M. . (2023). Development Of An Accesible Functional Prototype, Associated With A Smart Farming Type Technology, In User Layer, Applied To Digital Illiterates In A Region Of Colombia. Documentos De Trabajo ECBTI, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.22490/ECBTI.6609
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Development Of An Accesible Functional Prototype, Associated With A Smart Farming Type Technology, In User Layer, Applied To Digital Illiterates In A Region Of Colombia.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22490/ECBTI.6609
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Mauren Cárdenas Universidad Nacional Abierta y Distancia - UNAD

This project focuses on the analysis of the implementation of Smart Farming technologies, in a region of Colombia based on the impressions that this has with respect to farmers, its main users, who present some type of intellectual disability, mainly illiteracy. digital or functional illiteracy. According to figures presented by the Ministry of Education of Colombia, the largest number of illiterates in the country is found in rural regions and aged over 60 years, which allows including in this characterization farmers who have agricultural vocation and empirical training mainly associated with agricultural practices, it is this type of user who will find it very difficult to adapt to new technologies that seek to systematize the field, unless these are first adapted to their special needs regarding their digital knowledge. Taking into account the challenge of the adoption of technology by the population with digital illiteracy in the field, the importance arises that the aforementioned technologies are accessible to people who are part of the agricultural workforce in Colombia.