Well managed seaweed production is unique in its capacity to deliver impact and positive outcomes across socioeconomic and environmental metrics. The Indonesian seaweed sector has been well established for decades, but during that time little has changed in its operation. With few inputs required to grow tropical red seaweed, its production has historically been viewed as an alternate or supplementary livelihood to fishing. MARI Ocean‘s vision of a community-owned and -organised seaweed farming cooperative for Indonesia creates structure for underserved and fragmented industries.
Sea Green’s vision of a blockchain-based digital ecosystem platform for seaweed aquaculture brings together service components to baseline commercial infrastructure for one of Southeast Asia’s most underserved and fragmented industries tropical seaweed farming. Sea Green delivers transparency and utility by reimagining traceability as a platform upon which services can be based. Considering seaweed product growth as a progressive “state model”, overlaid along the stages of seaweed primary production allows integration of in demand tools commercial infrastructure and environmental monitoring and simultaneously creates links to financial services.
