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SEAplant.net as a metamediary platform

 Eucheuma Seaplant Value Chains and SME Alliances
 SEAPlant.Net Technical Monograph No. 0804-6a
SEAPlant.Net as a metamediary platform

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SEAPlant.Net is building www.seaplant.net as an Internet-based interface for the tropical Asian seaplant industry. This website is the interface for SEAPlant.Net tools and solutions. Please drop in to the site from time to time and stay connected with SEAPlant.Net communities.

Initially SEAPlant.Net is mainly providing intermediary and infomediary tools and information. In the long run it is developing as a metamediary (see diagram below).
 

Value-chains are series of value-adding functions that connect through governed transactions and result in the supply and sale of products.
 
Examples of the types of tools and solutions being developed by SEAPlant.Net are shown in the diagram below and are described in the list opposite.

1.

 Information

The SEAPlant.Net™ News service will be online by Q4 2004. Useful directories concerning seaplant value chain participants, goods and services are in preparation. Our links section is already online and is steadily being updated and expanded. By mid-2005 our “Quarterly Eucheuma Seaplant Review” will be commence publication. For subscribers this will tie in to our online GIS service and our Seaplant SourceNet™.

2.

 Knowledge

A series of technical monographs is being made available in both English and Bahasa Indonesia during the fourth quarter (Q4) 2004. Check for free downloads. Reprint services and links to sources of technical literature are being arranged.

3.

 Technical assistance

SEAPlant.Net™ has already commenced working with farmer groups under our “farmer cooperator” program. Initial projects include the introduction of better cultivars to some areas and the introduction of improved agronomy protocols.

4.

 Networking

Farmer-to-farmer links have been established by personal visits and ten Seaplant SourceNet™ terminals will soon be going online.

5.

 Geographic Information System (GIS)

Seaplant SourceNet™, data from our field personnel and a considerable repository of content being obtained from SuriaLink and other providers are the core of a SEAPlant.Net™ GIS that will be a “must” for any serious participant in eucheuma seaplant value chains.
6. Industry standards
  Standard laboratory test procedures are online and available as a free PDF download as Monograph 0804-7a. Other standards will soon be published.
7. Value chain verification
  We have already connected some buyers and sellers and looks forward to facilitating many more transactions in future months.

8.

 Transaction settlement

SEAPlant.Net™ is forming an alliance with a first-class “many-to-many” platform and will soon be in a position to facilitate procedures such as document tracking, transaction settlement and risk management.