IW:LEARN ICT Showcase
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IW:LEARN ICT Showcase
- 1. IW:LEARN ICT Showcase • Information and Communication Technology – What is it? Benefits to the GEF community • Current ICTs – International Waters Resource Center – UNEP/IW:LEARN Eco-Insights Database – Knowledge Products from the GEF iW Community – Other ICT Tools for IW Projects
- 2. The GEF International Waters Resource Center (IWRC) • http://www.iwlearn.net • International waters thematic website • Contains a wide variety of resources pertinent to transboundary water resource management • Developed by GEF IW:LEARN, with GEF projects, its implementing and executing agencies, and other IW partners • Accessible both on- and off-line • Based on metadata standards
- 3. The Resources • Project Profiles: GEF IW project summaries, contact information, and internet links • Knowledge Products: project documents, TDAs and SAPs, project guidance, event presentations, distance learning, interactive web resources and datasets • Events: Events of interest to the international waters community and proceedings • Distance Learning: Catalogue of courses on water management and technology training, financial aide resources and teaching tools for program & content developers • Forums: Electronic forums addressing a range of IW issues, sorted by theme and region • News: Newsletters and articles of interest to the IW community • Organizations: Profiles of organization engaged in the IW community, their websites and contact information
- 5. Navigating the IWRC • By resource • By theme • By region
- 6. Locating resources on the IWRC • Thematic Hierarchies • Tools • Ex. Management-Assessment • Issues • Fisheries • Systems • Aquifer • Waterbody • GIWA water system hierarchy • Region (Coverage) • AIDA regional definitions
- 7. Searching the the IWRC • Basic keyword search • Advanced searches
- 8. Updating and Adding Content to the IWRC • Data Input Forms • Account creation
- 10. Plans for the Future • Adapt and replicate across an international “cloud” of related resource centres, e.g., – Interconnected Regional Water Portals • E.g., UNESCO’s “Water Portal of the Americas” – Individual GEF IW Projects’ Web sites • E.g., Benguela Current DLIST (Angola, Namibia and South Africa)
- 11. UNEP/IW:LEARN Eco-insights Database • http://www.eco-insight.org • Contact Info: –Sean.Khan@unep.org –UNEP/GEF Co-ordination Office PO Box 30552, Nairobi Kenya
- 12. Knowledge products from the GEF IW Community Offline Websites •Implementation of the Strategic Action Programme for the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden (PERSGA) •Lake Tanganyika Biodiversity Project Films and Interactive Presentations •Joint Danube Survey •Protecting Water Quality and Ecosystems in the Danube River Basin Datasets, GIS based Maps and all encompassing knowledge products •Caspian Sea Environment Programme; Data and Information Management •Gulf of Guinea Large Marine Ecosystem Multimedia CD •Black Sea Geographic Information System •Tumen River Strategic Action Program Interactive Environmental Mapping System Project Implementation Tools (coming soon) •GIWA Environmental Assessment Tool •Rio San Juan (PROCUENCA) Institutional mapping tool
- 14. PERSGA: Key Points • Fully navigable offline website • Describes: – The project and its activities, focal areas and participating countries – geographic area of focus – plans for Information Management System (IMS) – available publications (paper format only) • Contact Info
- 15. PERSGA: Screen 2
- 16. PERSGA: Screen 3
- 17. PERSGA: Contact Info • Street Address: PERSGA 7th floor - Baroom Center, Hail street, Al-Ruwais, Jeddah Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Post address: PERSGA P.O. Box 53662 Jeddah 21583, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Tel: 00966 2 6573224 Fax: 00966 2 6521901 Email: information@persga.org
- 18. LTBP: Key Points • Fully navigable offline website • Provides: – 30 minute Web film on the Lake – project and programme info. – administrative support documents – Information and links to several project databases containing information on biodiversity, sedimentation and other project foci – calendar of progress – metadata database to access maps for Geographic Information System (GIS)
- 19. LTBP: Main Page
- 20. LTBP: Screen 2
- 21. LTBP: Screen 3
- 22. LTBP: Contact Info • http://www.ltbp.org, ltbp@mac.com • Head office: – Life house, Sokoine/Ohio P. O. Box 5956, Dar es Salaam, TANZANIA Tel: +255.51.118201 Fax: +255.51.118202
- 23. Danube Films: Key Points • Joint Danube Survey – Film on efforts to manage the resource • Protecting Water Quality and Ecosystems in the Danube – Film on transboundary water resource management strategies – Available in multiple formats
- 24. Danube Films: Contact Info • http://www.icpdr.org, icpdr@unvienna.org • Vienna International Centre, D0419, P.O Box 500 Austria Vienna, AUSTRIA A1400 Tel: + 43.1.26060.5738 Fax: + 43.1.26060.5895
- 25. BSEP: Main Page
- 26. BSEP: Key Points • GIS based mapping tool • Offers: – A design that allows: data input, storage, analysis and processing, user interaction, output and presentation – Seven thematic blocks representing different aspects of the Black Sea ecosystem, where each block contains a set of map layers – Two methods of analysis: overlay and correlation – For some maps, a relational database
- 27. BSEP: Screen 2
- 28. BSEP: Screen 3
- 29. BSEP: Contact Info • Black Sea Environmental Programme Coordination Unit Dolmabahce Sarayi II Harekat Kosku 80680 Besiktas Istanbul, Turkey FAX: +90.212.227.9933 EMAIL: blacksea@dominet.in.com.tr
- 30. Tumen: Screen 1
- 31. Tumen: Key Points • CD-ROM based interactive mapping tool • Includes – several GIS datasets and includes free software to interact with them – copies of the map based on PDF format
- 32. Tumen: Screen 2
- 33. Tumen: Contact Info • http://www.tumennet.org • 5-2-42 Tayuan Diplomatic Compound, 1 Xindong Road, Chaoyang District, 100600 Beijing, China E-mail: atkalin@public.un.org.cn Phone: (86-10)-6532-6467 Fax: (86-10)-6532-6146
- 35. GOGLME: Key Points • CD-ROM based interactive resource includes: – A film about efforts to manage the resource – Extensive set of different types of resources including documents, overviews – Several GIS datasets on different aspects of the project
- 36. GOGLME: Screen 2
- 37. GOGLME: Screen 3
- 38. GOGLME: Contact Info • The Regional Coordination Centre c/o Centre de Recherches Oceanologiques (CRO) B.P. V18 Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire Tel: (225) 35 00 82/25 73 69 Fax: (225) 25 73 69 Email: gog-lme@africaonline.co.ci • Project Manager GEF/GOG-LME Project Cleaner Product and Environmental Branch United Nations Industrial Development Organization Vienna International Centre P.O. Box 400, A-1400 Vienna, Austria Tel: (431) 26026 3895 Fax: (431) 26026 6819 Email: postmaster@unido.org
- 39. CEP: Main Page
- 40. CEP: Key Points • CD-ROM based fully navigable website • Includes: – CEP Web site (truncated) – Caspian Sea Data Inventory (draft) – Base map of the Caspian Sea GIS – Caspian Sea Bibliography (draft) – CEP Data and Information Management presentation – Biodiversity database – Contact Info
- 41. CEP: Screen 2
- 42. CEP: Screen 3
- 43. CEP: Contact Info • http://www.caspianenvironment.org • 14 Uzeyir Hadjibeyov, Room 108, Government Building Baku, AZERBAIJAN 370016 Tel: + 994.12.971785 Fax: + 994.12.971786
- 44. GIWA: Contact Info • http://www.giwa.net • Kalmarsund Laboratory, Barlastgatan 1 Kalmar, SWEDEN 39182 Tel: + 46.480.447.351 Fax: + 46.480.447.355
- 45. COMING SOON: SAN JUAN… • Presentation to be given on a new institutional mapping tool developed by the Rio San Juan project
- 46. Other Information and Communication Technology • GEF IW MGRS • D-LIST
- 47. GEF-IW-MGRS: Screen 1 GEF-IW-MGRS
- 48. GEF-IW-MGRS: Key Points GEF-IW-MGRS • Electronic forum • Focuses on: – coordination and discussion solely among GEF IW managers – Offering various ways to interact including chatting
- 49. GEF-IW-MGRS: Screen 2 GEF-IW-MGRS
- 50. DLIST 1: Home Page Distance Learning and Information Sharing Tool
- 51. D-LIST: Key Points Distance Learning and Information Sharing Tool – Interactive knowledge sharing tool
- 52. DLIST 2: Course Modules Distance Learning and Information Sharing Tool
- 53. DLIST 3: Discussion Areas Distance Learning and Information Sharing Tool
- 54. DLIST 4: Discussion Area Distance Learning and Information Sharing Tool
Editor's Notes
- -THE IWRC represents a concentrated effort to develop a thematic website for GEF IW projects -It also represents an ongoing effort to design a database which can interact with other databases on a variety of international waters issues through a set of metadata fields
- The iwrc stores a variety of resources…our focus constiuency is the GEF iw community, so we store a range of information on current, former and pending GEF IW projects. -We are also building catalogues of other kidns of resources pertinent to the GEF community…we now have the largest collection of GEF project documents…as well as products of the various GEF projects…
- -this is our start page -From here you can navigate to the various resource types…or choose geographic regions and see resources appropriate to those regions…you can also do a simple keyword search from the start page, and/or choose an advanced search
- We want to make the resources on the IWRC as accessible as possible…Of course there is a growing number of resources stored in the database…we have developed and are still developing thematic hierarchies…at the moment we have identified different types of thematic hierarchies…problems or issues…tools, or the types of resources that address the problems…as well as the systems in question, which cover the various parts of the hydrologic cycle…from terrestrial to freshwater to marine… In addition, following the AIDA standard, we established a list of regions and subregions…the resources are keyed to regions, not necessarily by their physical location, but by their coverage…
- In addition ot a standard keyword search…users of the IWRC can experiment with advanced searches…using set of five limiting fields…the user can control the kinds of resources they want a search engine to return…he or she can use the familiar thematic hierarchies…or search by water body…and resource type…and of course by region… The power here of course is that the user can determine his needs and find more appropriate resources… The thematic hierarchies go down three levels…and although resoruces may be keyed to lower level entries in the hierarchy…a more general search (of higher level terms) will still uncover them…
- The IWRC was always itnend to be a sustainable project…IW:LEARN hopes that projects, and other such ‘resoruces’ will be inclined to update their profiles and other information…attach new documents and so on. We’ve designed a capability for users to submit records to IW:LEARN. Of course, there will be a quality control program…not just any old record change will be approved…to avoid storing bad data…
- Users can view current reocrds, submit changes, delete records and so on…of course all changes must be submitted to the webmaster
- IW:LEARN is currently engaged in a few projects to normalize databases around the world, based on a set of accepted metadata standards like Dublin Core. More importantly, we are actively engaged in developing the water portal concept for North and South America…we hope to replicate this concept for other regions…