E-Agricultural Systems Adoption and Transfer amongst Rural Communities: Expanding the Tacit Dimension

Abstract

This paper proposes findings to validate a new systems framework of e- Agriculture adoption and innovation that will open new avenues of research for control and automation systems theory and practice informing policy in respect of e-readiness of rural communities. It presents one dimension of the new model that of expanding the tacit dimension as to enlighten and deepen systems designers to utilise social networks that exist with all communities as too aid design and development of new technologies that combines with the working lives and add values to the working lives of individuals.