Agricultural Statistician Network (ASN)

Abstract

Agricultural Statistician Network provides dynamic working linkages among the statisticians with emphasis on research information exchange, resource sharing and optimizing response time for addressing methodology related problems and foster fellow feelings among the group with cost effective communication media. The website is accessible across the world at the address www. iasri.res.in/asn/ and provides an opportunity to enhance the image of organizations and the statisticians at the international platform. It lays emphasis on providing a unified base on various professional activities of the agricultural statisticians. Individual’s research expertise is exposed to the international community thus providing opportunity for global collaboration. System has features like chat, discussion group, notice board, search, online registration and online data management for effective communication. Web site has been designed and developed using standard three-tier architecture. Site has been developed using Active Server Pages (ASP) for server side programming, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) and VBScript for client side interface and validation and Microsoft Access for Database management.