The parlous data situation for artisanal tuna fisheries in tuna commissions, including the IOTC, is due in part to reliance on technology that is literally thousands of years old - handwriting on paper - to record data. Fisheries management bodies (business, national and inter-governmental, including in IOTC) are transitioning to electronic fisheries information systems. However, the IOTC data holdings and management are reliant on actions taken by Parties to the Commission (CPCs). Primary data recording for logbooks, monitoring or catch documentation schemes remains overwhelmingly paper-based. Information on paper must be captured into an electronic system by CPCs before it can be shared or used for national reporting purposes. This is a cumbersome, expensive and error- strewn process. Furthermore, paper-based systems are highly scale-dependent, meaning that as the scale of the data requirements grows (more fishing operations, more volumes and types of information), so too does the effort to meet those requirements. Not all coastal CPCs consistently meet their data submission and reporting obligations to the IOTC. ABALOBI is a social enterprise working with artisanal fisheries, and has developed a suite of electronic tools for fishing data recording, including for monitors recording catch information at landing. Its systems are fully digital, but are designed to work with paper information sheets if needed, and can be configured to work without an internet connection, making this the ideal electronic system for the vast numbers of widely dispersed and often remote artisanal fishing communities that catch tuna in the Indian Ocean. While ABALOBI’s e-logbook and other apps are also available, we believe that the ABALOBI MONITOR platform, constituted by a smartphone application feeding a secure data warehouse via cloud-based tools, together with the suite of analysis, visualisation and access-management tools, can provide multiple benefits to both meeting CPCs’ data submission and Regional Observer Scheme obligations, and to artisanal fishers. It can further substantially strengthen governments’ capabilities to detect and address illegal activities while transforming the provision of data from artisanal fisheries to the IOTC. For the latter, obvious benefits extend to a wide range of IOTC activities, most pertinently stock assessment and scientific advice. ABALOBI invites any interested party to explore a joint program of work, and proposes to collaborate closely with the IOTC Secretariat to develop heuristics and Standards for electronic systems in and use of digital data from artisanal fisheries.