Activity Description: Developed by PEOPLink, CatGen enables a worldwide network of enterprises, handicraft producers, artists, exporters, designers, importers, wholesalers, retailers, and other experts to interact via the Internet. The CatGen platform is an end-to-end e-commerce solution reaching from buyers and consumers in Europe and North America to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and all the way down to the "poorest of the poor," artisan groups and farmer co-operatives in the developing world. It will include cost-effective Web hosting and shipping and payment services, initially from Ecuador and India to the US.