Can the net transform the world's fishing industries?
by Guardian Staff from on (#W52C)
A New York company is providing Indonesian fishermen with a cheap mobile network solution it believes could bridge the digital divide globally.
Local fishing communities in Indonesia are beset by a multitude of connected challenges, from illegal fishing to declining fish populations to their own personal safety in the country's turbulent seas.
But a New York based telecoms company called Tone believes mobile network technology can solve these problems by getting fishermen in remote communities connected to the Internet through an initiative called mFish. Scaled up, they believe their model could address the problem of unsustainable and illegal fishing globally, as well as being applied in many other contexts.
