Presented by Haruni Krisnawati, Lead Coordinator of ITPC Secretariat and Principal Researcher at BRIN in national workshop on the Role of Science in the Development of Forest Reference Emission Level on 13 June 2022

2. The effectiveness of Knowledge
platform in the ITPC related initiatives
Haruni Krisnawati
Lead Coordinator, ITPC Secretariat
Principal Researcher, BRIN

3. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
• Launched by 3 governments (Republic of Indonesia, RoC, DRC) in Jakarta on 30 October 2018
• Coordinated by MOEF, Republic of Indonesia
• 5 July 2021, Peru joined the ITPC
Joint Declaration :
✓ Acknowledging the important role of peatlands at global,
regional, and national levels in addressing climate change,
protecting biodiversity, environment, and contributing to the
social economic welfare of people,
✓ Recognizing the need to increase respective capacity through
collaboration to promote best practices for conservation and
sustainable management of peatlands,
✓ Committing to common interests in tropical peatland and
ongoing efforts by governments and partners to conserve and
manage tropical peatlands in a sustainable manner.
✓ Committing to strengthening networking and collaboration

4. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Roles of ITPC
• Serve as a go-to space for South-South cooperation which will support
the dissemination of strategies and practices for tropical peatland
management, through coordinating and supporting collaborative
international relationships and connecting different stakeholders.
• Conduct and disseminate scientific research on tropical peatland
management for sustainable development.
• Become a center of excellence for tropical peatland research to support
policy development.
• Provide capacity building and technical services.
The Center brings cross-cutting collaboration and innovation to study and preserve tropical
peatland ecosystem – the importance of South-South exchange

5. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
ITPC Knowledge platform – connecting knowledge and research to people
• Synthesize widely dispersed
knowledge of peatland
• A tool for knowledge exchange
and capacity building
• Interconnect individuals
through the expert directory.
• A one-stop knowledge shop
A go-to place for information on
peatlands and provide space for
users to browse, search and
contribute a variety of knowledge
products

6. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Objectives of Knowledge Platform
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
To provide a platform on which
to list, capture and showcase all
relevant and publicly available
knowledge relating to peatland
information
A tool for knowledge exchange
and capacity building
To enable secondary use by
disseminating and
communicating available
knowledge
Act as media for a community of
practice on sustainable
peatlands
Help disseminate policy and best
practice experiences on
sustainable tropical peatland
management
To increase awareness and
discoverability of peatland-
related open data
To promote the birth of new
knowledge on peatlands
Knowledge
Platform

7. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
The architecture
Knowledge Repository
•Repository of all outputs and
activities related to the
peatland information
•Covers metadata on
publication, datasets,
audio/video, photos,
presentation, blogs and news,
and projects related to the
peatlands
•Lesson learned information
systems (Best practices
database)
Expert Directory
•Subject expert database
providing profile of the expert
and links to their works
available online
•Expertise group per subject
and sub subject, classified and
index to enable the retrieval
•Act like LinkedIn, but on a
specific subject
•Tools to enable people to
reach out to the expert(s)
Collaborative Platform
•Community of Practices forum
•Maintain log of discussion for
future reference
•Access privileges
•Tools to enable people to
discuss, consult and share
information, ideas and
thoughts.
1 2 3

8. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
more than 2,000 experts

9. International Tropical Peatlands Center (ITPC)
Current development
▪ Static. Act as a metadata harvester .
▪ Current features is to encourages outputs
discovery, expert finding, and network
analysis.
▪ Dynamic. Additional function and feature that made the
static directory becoming more interactive
▪ Inviting data providers to submit their work and make it
available to the public under agreed data-sharing protocols
▪ Development of collaboration platform
What next?

10. Thank you