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IW:LEARN ICT Showcase

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.

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IW:LEARN ICT Showcase

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  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 • 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 • 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

  4. Navigating the IWRC • By resource • By theme • By region

  5. 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

  6. Searching the the IWRC • Basic keyword search • Advanced searches

  7. Updating and Adding Content to the IWRC • Data Input Forms • Account creation

  8. 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)

  9. UNEP/IW:LEARN Eco-insights Database • http://www.eco-insight.org • Contact Info: • Sean.Khan@unep.org • UNEP/GEF Co-ordination OfficePO Box 30552, Nairobi Kenya

  10. 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

  11. PERSGA: Main Page

  12. 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

  13. PERSGA: Screen 2

  14. PERSGA: Screen 3

  15. PERSGA: Contact Info • Street Address:PERSGA7th floor - Baroom Center, Hail street, Al-Ruwais, JeddahKingdom of Saudi ArabiaPost address:PERSGAP.O. Box 53662Jeddah 21583, Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaTel: 00966 2 6573224Fax: 00966 2 6521901Email: information@persga.org

  16. 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)

  17. LTBP: Main Page

  18. LTBP: Screen 2

  19. LTBP: Screen 3

  20. LTBP: Contact Info • http://www.ltbp.org, ltbp@mac.com • Head office: • Life house, Sokoine/OhioP. O. Box 5956, Dar es Salaam, TANZANIATel: +255.51.118201Fax: +255.51.118202

  21. 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

  22. Danube Films: Contact Info • http://www.icpdr.org, icpdr@unvienna.org • Vienna International Centre, D0419, P.O Box 500 AustriaVienna, AUSTRIA A1400Tel: + 43.1.26060.5738Fax: + 43.1.26060.5895

  23. BSEP: Main Page

  24. 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

  25. BSEP: Screen 2

  26. BSEP: Screen 3

  27. BSEP: Contact Info • Black Sea Environmental Programme Coordination Unit Dolmabahce Sarayi IIHarekat Kosku 80680 Besiktas Istanbul, Turkey FAX: +90.212.227.9933 EMAIL: blacksea@dominet.in.com.tr

  28. Tumen: Screen 1

  29. 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

  30. Tumen: Screen 2

  31. 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

  32. GOGLME: Main Page

  33. 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

  34. GOGLME: Screen 2

  35. GOGLME: Screen 3

  36. 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

  37. CEP: Main Page

  38. 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

  39. CEP: Screen 2

  40. CEP: Screen 3

  41. CEP: Contact Info • http://www.caspianenvironment.org • 14 Uzeyir Hadjibeyov, Room 108, Government BuildingBaku, AZERBAIJAN 370016Tel: + 994.12.971785Fax: + 994.12.971786

  42. GIWA: Contact Info • http://www.giwa.net • Kalmarsund Laboratory, Barlastgatan 1Kalmar, SWEDEN 39182Tel: + 46.480.447.351Fax: + 46.480.447.355

  43. COMING SOON: SAN JUAN… • Presentation to be given on a new institutional mapping tool developed by the Rio San Juan project

  44. Other Information and Communication Technology • GEF IW MGRS • D-LIST

  45. GEF-IW-MGRS GEF-IW-MGRS: Screen 1

  46. GEF-IW-MGRS GEF-IW-MGRS: Key Points • Electronic forum • Focuses on: • coordination and discussion solely among GEF IW managers • Offering various ways to interact including chatting

  47. GEF-IW-MGRS GEF-IW-MGRS: Screen 2

  48. DLIST 1: Home Page Distance Learning and Information Sharing Tool

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