1. Crowd Sourcing to Mitigate the Climate Change effects on Small Scale Fisheries in Sri Lanka
Achini De Silva
Dept. of Agribusiness Management
Faculty of Agricultural Sciences,
Sabaragamuwa University

2. Index Focus Concept Conceptual frame work Crowd sourcing platform
Concluding remarks

3. Key focus
Role of imagining adaptations for small scale fisheries that would contribute to minimizing the negative impacts of climate change on employment, income, food security, health and safety

6. Crowd sourcing
Crowd sourcing is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology

7. External support: Who are they? What do they support? How?
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Idea
Generation
Idea
selection
Fishing
commun ities
Idea
Development
Idea
implement ation
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Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3

8. Method Identify the global stake holders of small-scale fishery
Who are they???????
Develop the web portal and invite external crowds to contribute ideas into it
Refine the ideas
Select best alternatives which will cater to mitigate the impacts of climate change

9. 1. The first part of the study focused eye on collaborative design 2
1.The first part of the study focused eye on collaborative design 2.Randomly selected stakeholders were involved in designing process 3.The design considerations: weather forecasting, weather warnings, craft and gear design, postharvest handling, designing landing sites and markets, distribution systems, training programmes for crew members, and financial management to imagine adaptations scenarios. 4.Crowd sourcing approach forwarded to measure the feasibility and social acceptability of the design and visualization strategies

10. Crowd sourcing platform

11. Concluding Remarks Crowd source model allows:
Access to particular knowledge which empowered uses to make changes best fit to their locations
Inform general public about the climate change including both negative and positive aspects

12. Thanks