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Tune in tomorrow at 3pm GMT to BBC Oxford Radio for an interview with Plantwise knowledge bank‘s Holly Wright talking about her experiences in Kenya piloting the new Plantwise Factsheet Library Mobile App.  She will be joined by the app’s developer, White October Director Chris Jones.

 

2 Comments

  1. Brie on 28th March 2014 at 4:42 PM

    Sounds great! I’ve just come back from doing a training with 60 plant doctors in Uganda. I noticed that a lot of them have android phones, so showed them the app during the training, and loads of them pulled out their phones and started installing it right there during the workshop. Staff from the Department of Crop Protection were particularly excited to have it, saying that now when people call them with problems, they’ll be able to just look up the answer right on their phones!

    • Abigail Rumsey on 28th March 2014 at 4:45 PM

      That’s great to hear, you should write a blog post about it 😀

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