RAIN-HARVEST POEM

1. Rain Rain fall on us

Fall on us while we play

When you rage and dull our day

We’ll go indoors to safety

2. Rain Rain fall on us

Now we need you in great quantities

To mitigate water  shortages

Rain Rain fall on us

3. We really seek you for storage

To keep our plants green when it’s dry

We’ll treat and drink you when need be

 Thus we’ve got to store you safely

4. Mum and Dad Store the Rains

Store the rains into tanks

From our roofs underground

Store the rains in poly tanks

5. Rain  Rain l need you,

God has blessed us seasonally

Yet we can store you till you’re due to use

To use you when need is due

6. Rain Rain come again

When the season is patchy and dry

Season’s sweet gives us sleep

 Refresh and sooth us on our sleepless nights

7. Rain Rain cooling down

Give us water to wash us down

Our hands off the dirty dust

Our hands off the shop of bugs 

That we’ll eat in health and live

Nay we’ll drink in health and live

Rain rains wash us clean

8. Dad and Mum store the rain to prevent the flowy floods

From drowning us on our way to school

 Though we fault by building in your pathway

Mum and Dad store the floods.    

THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION THEORY AS POSITED BY EVERETTE ROGERS

THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION THEORY AS POSITED BY EVERETTE ROGERS

In Diffusion of Innovations, Rogers teaches us that knowledge acquisition, risk evaluation, value acceptance, social/economic/political constraints, adaptation to specific situations, time, money, and the expertise of change agents all influence the adoption of an innovation.

 Diffusion of Innovations seeks to explain how innovations are taken up in a population. An innovation is an idea, behaviour, or object that is perceived as new by its audience.

Diffusion of Innovations offers three valuable insights into the process of social change: Diffusion of Innovations takes a radically different approach to most other theories of change. Instead of focusing on persuading individuals to change, it sees change as being primarily about the evolution or “reinvention” of products and behaviours so they become better it’s for the needs of individuals and groups. In Diffusion of Innovations it is not people who change, but the innovations themselves. Reinvention is a key principle in Diffusion of Innovations. The success of an innovation depends on how well it evolves to meet the needs of more and more demanding and risk-averse individuals in a population (the history of the mobile phone is a perfect example).A good way to achieve this is to make users into partners in a continuous process of redevelopment. Computer games Companies, pharmaceutical corporations and rural research institutes are examples

Of organizations that seek to make users active partners in improving innovations by supporting user communities or by applying participative action research techniques.

The concept of reinvention is important because it tells us that no product or process can rest on its laurels: continuous improvement is the key to spreading an innovation.

The second important insight is that impersonal marketing methods like advertising and media stories may spread information about new innovations, but it’s conversations that spread adoption. Because the adoption of new products involves the management of risk and uncertainty.