From Community Networks to Community Data: The AppLea Farming Mobile App

We present AppLea, an open source farming Android application that aspires to become the online assistant of farmers and stock-farmers with their daily activities. The app has been developed in close cooperation with the farming community of fourteen villages in Thessaly, Greece, which have access to the Internet thanks to the Sarantaporo.gr community network. Its goal is two-fold: (a) to serve as the online logbook of daily activities in the farm, easing their planning, recording and reporting to agronomists and cooperatives; (b) foster the sharing of data about good (and bad) farming practices, thus fostering the provision of advanced smart farming services to them. We describe the main capabilities of the app, which aims to multiply the value of the local community network for the local economy and actively contribute to the sustainability of both.