A social networking platform for augmenting precision agriculture

Finding answers to the question “How do communities likely to be imperiled by agro-forestry transformations arising from climate change respond proactively to that change", is a timely investigation, that can benefit agro-forestry industry as well as the lives and livelihoods of people in the neighborhoods. Ajimu-Project aims to investigate the above question with its focus on climatic change effects on taste of wine in the vineyards of Ajimu farm village, in Oita Prefecture in Japan. This paper presents the rationale of design and implementation of a community-wide information sharing platform: Ajimu Information Sharing Platform (Ajimu-ISP) that intends to enhance communicability among multiple stakeholders in sharing information across the agro-forestry value chain in which enhancing information visibility and facilitating user friendly interface are major system design concerns. ISP will inherit the salient features of social networking systems while addressing the specific needs of the stakeholders of Ajimu-Project. The system provides an array of functions that range from real-time monitoring of climatic information to mining of implicit knowledge acquired from the users. URL: http://www.ajimu-project.org.