(Coming Soon) Digital Transformation for Coastal & Riverine Communities

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Commencing this crucial initiative involves educating stakeholders on Digital Transformation for Coastal and Riverine Communities. E-learning modules offer a comprehensive platform for efficient knowledge enhancement in tropical waters.
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Fisheries and Aquaculture in Indo Pacific Region
This module explores the Indo-Pacific's fisheries and aquaculture sector, highlighting its global significance, India's strategic role, and emerging challenges. It examines sustainability, economic opportunities, and digital transformation while addressing geopolitical and environmental concerns. The focus is on enhancing resilience, governance, and technological advancements via suitable digital transformation for sustainable marine resource management in the region.

  • Importance in the global order
  • The role of India
  • Opportunities, threats and the digital transformation

Global Regulations and Laws
This module examines the EU's stringent approach to aquaculture regulation, focusing on the IUU Regulation's role in combating illegal fishing. It explores the regulation’s significance, history, and global influence, including ASEAN and SIMP frameworks, addressing challenges, and outlining strategies for sustainable marine resource management and lawful fishing practices worldwide.

Tropical Challenges and Opportunities
This module covers the unique climatic, political, and economic characteristics of Indo-Pacific tropical waters. It examines climate zones, the impact of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture, and the challenges of technology transfer. It also identifies local challenges and opportunities, suggesting ways on to how to adapt to best practices to develop region-specific governance and sustainable solutions.

Traditional Knowledge and Practices
This module identifies the deep-rooted traditional knowledge of Indo-Pacific fisheries and aquaculture, emphasizing centuries-old sustainable practices. It examines how modern tools can enhance, rather than replace, traditional methods. A digital transformation technique is also discussed at the end as a strategy to integrate tradition with innovation, addressing challenges, and leveraging opportunities for sustainable and community-driven development.

Small Scale Enterprises (SSE) vs Large Scale Enterprises (LSE)
This module explores the contrasting roles of Small-Scale and Large-Scale Enterprises in fisheries governance within a globalized world. It examines SSE’s sustainability and localization challenges, LSE’s efficiency and political influence, and policy interventions. The module covers these disparities through real life scenarios documented through the case studies, explore governance strategies, and assess digital transformation for empowering SSEs.

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
This module studies the impact of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in fisheries and aquaculture, focusing on its role in balancing economic growth, environmental sustainability, and community well-being. It covers fundamental concepts, EIA methodologies, and evaluation parameters while addressing the benefits, challenges, and future pathways for responsible aquaculture in tropical waters.

APY Tool
This module explores the APY (Area, Productivity, Yield) tool as a digital innovation for fisheries and aquaculture management. It covers the fundamentals of APY analysis, its technological applications, and its role in enhancing governance. The focus is on optimizing productivity and sustainability of the aquaculture operations. The work discussed is a recognized work, solely developed by Maritime Research Center (MRC) and presented in World Fisheries and Aquaculture Conference 2023 and also accepted in Indian Journal of geo-marine sciences (IJMS) 2024.

Modelling and Simulation (M&S)
This module teaches about Modelling and Simulation (M&S) as a crucial tool for fisheries and aquaculture. The modelling and simulation framework developed by MRC is a low-cost framework for high acceptance rate in Indian waters. It covers foundational concepts, the modelling of biological processes, and the role of simulations in addressing data gaps. Challenges, opportunities, and the future of M&S in optimizing aquatic resource management and governance are discussed.

Shrimp Farming
This module explores shrimp farming as a major economic activity in tropical waters, highlighting its profitability and sustainability challenges. It examines disease risks, high feeding costs, and environmental concerns while showcasing digital transformation’s role in improving management practices, enhancing sustainability, and empowering coastal communities for a more resilient future.

Seaweed Farming
This module explores the role of digital transformation in scaling seaweed farming in tropical waters. It introduces seaweeds, their commercial and sustainability benefits, and India's production challenges. The module will provide an excellent opportunity to learners to analyse opportunities and threats in seaweed farming while examining how digital tools can bridge the gap between targets and current output.

Integrated Multi Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA)
This module dives into Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) as a sustainable alternative for shrimp farming. It starts with the fundamentals of IMTA, highlighting how integrating shrimp and seaweed can balance nutrient cycles. It will also explore the challenges of implementing IMTA in tropical waters and assess its potential to drive a seaweed revolution.

Common Carps in Freshwaters (Carp Farming)
This module focuses on enhancing Common Carp farming through digital transformation. It begins with an introduction to Carp farming, followed by an in-depth look at production methods. The viewers will examine the key challenges and opportunities in the industry and assess how digital tools can improve productivity for riverine communities.

To See, To Understand and To Share
The module explores the indigenous framework To See, To Understand and To Share to design and develop feasible solutions in the field of Aquaculture and ocean engineering. It focuses upon the integration of IoT in the field of ocean engineering to collect enough data that can be processed using AI/ML Techniques for providing valuable insights to the stakeholders via smartphone solutions.

Digital Transformation and Marine Spatial Planning (MSP)
This module introduces Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) as a governance tool for marine and freshwater systems. It covers the foundational principles of MSP, its evolution over time, and the increasing role of digital transformation. Learners will assess the challenges and opportunities of implementing MSP in tropical waters and its impact on coastal communities.

Freshwater crisis and management
This module examines freshwater resources in the Indo-Pacific, addressing over-extraction, pollution, and climate change. It explores classification, case studies of crises, and socio-economic impacts. While the sources of freshwater withdrawals are taught which will help learners gain insights as to why the freshwater crisis is an alarming situation, it also analyse sustainable management strategies, including community-driven initiatives, traditional practices, and digital transformation, with a focus on freshwater fisheries and aquaculture as key solutions.

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