La Réunion island The Plant Protection Platform Center (3P Center) is CIRAD's largest laboratory and hosts and manages most of the technical IT resources for the entire island. The IT infrastructure includes all that is necessary for high level science activities: virtualized datacenter, high bandwidth networks, high performance workstations… Since 2003 the 3P Center has been involved in several regional programs and projects in which it has taken the lead in IT activities, especially the creation and development of a Web portal for biodiversity and sustainable agricultural production. The 3P Center has also helped to develop a database of regional pests and diseases that contains a visual inventory of plant pests and diseases in the Indian Ocean area. Another project involves innovative applications for smartphones that can automatically recognize plants from pictures, or observation statements and visual diagnosis of plant diseases on the spot.