SEAFDEC, an Inter-Governmental Organization plays an important role in promotion of sustainable development of fisheries and aquaculture in the Southeast Asian Region for more than four decades. Cooperation with other regional and international organizations have been recognized through several important events such as Millennium Conference in 2001 and ASEAN-SEAFDEC Conference in 2011. Since 1990s, internet have been introduced worldwide, where information technology becomes important as a part of human life including education, economic, social and politicsand so on. Development of high speed internet creates a new communication system and support living style including works and activities such as public relations, multi-media production, publication etc., especially information dissemination and website which are technologies for communication between internal and external organization as well as in developing management system for efficiencies. The objective of this paper is to enhance SEAFDEC visibility by developing the information and dissemination system which developed new TD website in 2017.

In this regards, TD established Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Training Department Institutional Repository (STIR), which is the official digital repository of scholarly, research and technical information of the Department to download all information materials using open source software named the DSpace.

In this paper, author considers the importance of information technology for introducing SEAFDEC/TD activities and improving access to SEAFDEC/TD technical/scientific articles was expressed via the website. In this regards, the author introduced for developing of the TD website and Repository to increase public relation and increase TD’s visibility as well as point out constrains of its development that requires the strengthening and cooperation within the Training Department of SEAFDEC.

Imsamrarn , N. (2017). Development of TD Website and Repository . SEAFDEC Technical Seminar 2017 (pp. 18-23). Samut Prakan: Training Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center.