Farmers and Virtual Communities in Rural Australia
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چکیده
The business and technological environment in which the farming community in Australia must operate is undergoing significant change. Pressures of the land care, demography, globalisation, and technology are exerting themselves on the farmer who must to adapt to survive. In this paper we set out a proposal to explore these influences with the final objective of building a computing framework as the basis of a virtual community. Finally, we introduce a planned programme of research which will evaluate some of these ideas in a real-world setting.
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