4.2.2. Approach

Approaches with participatory elements offer multiple potential benefits over purely top-down approaches. Where individuals can share their own information with others and/or feedback with AGI initiative developers they may feel their input is more valued and subsequently more interconnected to build community resilience [86]. Partnering with existing community groups can be a useful approach to increasing community participation. Digital Green leveraged community groups, such as women's self-help groups or farmers' groups by actively partnering with government, non-government, and private agencies with strong integration and relationships with communities, and cites these partnerships as critical to their success. Whilst having users involved in initiative development is beneficial, requiring registration for participation is seen as a limiting factor. Registering and then subscribing to content causes confusion with some users and has deterred people from using AGI services ([59]; e.g., CROPROTECT).
