This work was conducted by the Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy (ENB) Global Practice (GP) with financing from the Digital Development Trust Fund.

This BlueTech Final Report was developed by the task team led by Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep (Harsh), Global Lead (Disruptive Technology), ENB Global Practice with input from several specialists involved with the BlueTech activity.

Special thanks go to the Disruptive Knowledge, Information & Data Services (KIDS) Helpdesk (including Hrishikesh Patel, Isabel Maria Ramos Tellez, Kavita Kapur Macleod, Afua Owusua Oguah, Shaffiq Somani, Akash Mehta, Hak Joo Song, Aminul Islam, Marcel Giovanni Prieto Castellanos, Alain Robinson, Yolande Munzimi, Mi Lin Luke Gates), TMA Blue Tech (Michael Jones, Matt Classen, and Danielle Muller), and other specialists (incl. Ranjan Bose) for their inputs into the overall activity. Many thanks to Valerie Hickey, Global Director, ENB GP and Angela Armstrong, Coordinator SENCR, ENB GP for their management guidance and support and to the Digital Development GP colleagues for their financing and support (especially Oleg Petrov, Elena Babkova, Kitty Halpern, Rami Amin and Ram Sarangan Sundaram).