1 / 28

Système Euro-Méditerranéen d’information sur les savoir-faire dans le domaine de l’Eau

Join us at the EMWIS Data Manager Seminar to review progress, exchange information, and discuss the implementation of the Open Archive Initiative protocol in the water sector. The seminar will also cover updates on EMWIS national and international websites and the evolution of national portals.

pmorris
Download Presentation

Système Euro-Méditerranéen d’information sur les savoir-faire dans le domaine de l’Eau

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. SEMIDE EMWIS http://www.emwis.net http://www.semide.net Système Euro-Méditerranéen d’information sur les savoir-faire dans le domaine de l’Eau Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know how in the water sector النظام الأورو- متوسطي للإعلام حول المعرفة في ميدان المياه EMWIS Data manager seminar Eric Mino EMWIS Technical Unit EURO-MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP

  2. Logistic / Logistique Working languages: English, French and Spanish Participants list to be signed Boarding pass + Flight tickets Please no cellular phones Social event: Dinner on Tuesday night Departure 20h45 from hotel Complementary perdiem for Med Partner Countries

  3. Targets and objectives of the seminar • Progress review and next year activities • Information on: • Spanish water information systems • Med network of basins organisations • Feed back from the Euromed water directors meeting and last Steering Committee meeting • Review of EMWIS national and international websites content • Individual themes • Water projects database • Exchange information within EMWIS • Metadata and Syndication, • Implementation of the Open Archive Initiative protocol (OAI) for the documentation • Progress and update procedure for the multilingual water thesaurus • Evolution of national portals

  4. Presentation content • Progress on EMWIS phase II • Activities planned for 2007 (transition period) • Action plan 2007-2010 • Outcome from the Euromed Water Directors meeting 6-7 Nov. 2006 Athens

  5. Main EMWIS milestones • Nov’96 – Decision to initiate Euromed water cooperation by the exchange of information (Ministerial conference) • Dec’96 – Dec’97 EMWIS feasibility study • Dec. 1997 – Decision of Euro-Med water directors to implement EMWIS • July 1998 – Creation of the EEIG EMWIS TU • July 1999 – EC grant signature for Phase 1 • Nov. 1999 – T.U. operational • Nov. 2001 – Phase 2 strategic plan approved by Euro-Med water directors • Dec. 2002 - End of phase 1 • Dec. 2003 - EC grant signature for Phase 2 (Dec. 2003 – Nov. 2006) • Nov. 2005 – Validation of achievements and 10 years strategy by Euromed Water Directors • Nov. 2006 – One year extension of the EC grant for phase 2 (Dec. 2003 – Nov. 2007) • Nov. 2006 – Strong support from the Euromed water directors for next phase and the 2nd study phase of the Med water information partnership

  6. Second phase: enhancing and consolidating the achievements(Dec. 2003 - Nov. 2007) • Maintaining a strong co-ordination with political structures • Reinforcing the NFPs • Expansion and development of services • Review of the technical architecture (XML based) • Operating information existing services • Fostering the promotion of the system • Development of topical activities • Information clearing house for International actions: • E.C. MEDA – Water programme • MED component of the EU water initiative • Liaison with international initiatives Incl. Analysing the set-up of a WaterML initiative to harmonise information exchange

  7. 1. Co-ordination activitiesOverview and status • Annual Steering Committee meetings • May 2004, Malta • June 2005, Athens side by side with Med-EUWI meeting and MCSD of UNEP-MAP • May 2006, Nice • November 2006, Athens • April or May 2007 • Annual Coordination Committee meetings • July 2004, Rabat • Sept 2005, Amman • June 2006, Algiers • September 2007 • Liaison with the partner countries, the European Commission, the main international initiatives • Technical Unit co-ordination and reporting • Conference of the 35 Euromed Water Director Generals • 24-25 November 2005, Rome • 6-7 November 2006, Athens • Autumn 2007

  8. 2. Reinforcing NFPsStatus overview (1/2) • Annual training seminars for data managers • November 2004, Madrid • November 2006, Madrid (water glossaries) • Annual training seminars for IT managers • March 2005, Sophia Antipolis • September 2006, Sophia Antipolis (New EMWIS portal tool kit) • Remote and ad-hoc support • On request • Technical and financial feasibility studies of National Water Information Systems • Final report delivered in January 2006 and presented at a regional conference in June 2006, Algiers • Country reports delivered to the NFP

  9. 2. Reinforcing NFPsStatus overview (2/2) • Examples of NFP good practices (available online) • NFP workprogrammes, • Promotion: brochures and seminars, • Metadata management for web sites • User surveys • Partnership agreements • Development of work programme for each NFP • Templates (English and French) sent to the NFP • Direct support to NFP • Equipment and software fully delivered • Web site translation costs - to be finalised in 2007 See NFP status • Local services - to be finalised in 2007 See NFP status

  10. 3. Expansion and development of servicesOverview & Status • Integration of the Arabic language for international access • Monthly news flash produced in Arabic • Arabic access included in the new web portal • Sharing calendars of events • Based on the meta-data to be defined with NFPs • Tested and prototyped with a small group of NFPs • Integrated into the new web portal • Development of a Water meta-crawler • Specifications defined • Simple version integrated in the new web portal (limited to networked websites, not multilingual) • Requires additional software components from ALMA project presented at the Coordination Committee in Sept’05 • Other services: • Multilingual water thesaurus (incl. Analysis of existing water glossaries) • Mediterranean water projects database

  11. 4. Review of the technical architecture Overview & status • Improving flexibility: • Publication of same content on several web sites • Better integration of heterogeneous resources • Better decentralised management of content • Common structures for content using XML • Main components agreed with NFP: • Common meta-data • Multilingual Water Thesaurus • Overall technical architecture • New technological platform for the TU • Web Content Management System developed for the European Environment Agency also used by the SMAP-RMSU • Open Source software • The solution includes a web portal builder for NFP or other organisations • The portal is multilingual: Arabic, English and French. But open to other languages

  12. 5. Animation and operation of information servicesOverview & Status • Operation of current services • On going • Re-design of services • See new web portal • Up-dating and extending of the thematic directory • Updating and consultation application improved • New thematic forums • Water glossaries, satellite images, etc. • Monthly eNews Flash in Arabic (86), English (5898) and French (2479) • On going

  13. 6. Fostering the promotion of the systemOverview & Status (1/2) • Definition of a promotion plan • Electronic marketing • eFlash, cross-links, directories, crawlers • Developing promotional media • Updated brochures in Arabic, English and French • Brochures files available for customisation by NFP • EMWIS design rules and EC visibility guidelines available for national products • Press releases and articles for the specialised magazines • Press releases for Promotion events and Steering Committee meetings • Press book online, under development

  14. 6. Fostering the promotion of the systemOverview & Status (2/2) • National promotion seminar held • Cyprus, October 2004 • Rabat, April 2005 • Beirut, November 2005 • Ankara, December 2005 • Algeria, June 2006 • National promotion seminar planned • Cyprus, 23 March 2007 • Jordan, 28 January 2007 • Palestine, February 2007 • Tunisia, April 2007 – to be confirmed • Taking part in national and international events • Medwet regional workshop, 2004 • Hydrotop 2005 • EMPOWER symposium, 2005 • World water forum, March 2006 • ….

  15. 7. Development of topical activitiesStatus

  16. 8. Information clearing house for MEDA-WaterOverview • Dissemination of project findings • E-flash in Arabic, English and French • Presentation of the programme and projects on EMWIS website • Presentation during EMWIS conferences • Information to EMWIS NFP • Publication of results in electronic format • Diary of events • Support for projects • Identification of contact persons: projects, Water Directors, etc. • Electronic discussion forum, mailing lists: Exchange of information and know-how from projects • Access to existing information resources (e.g. water legislation)

  17. 8. Information clearing house for EU Water activitiesStatus • EMWIS new web sections on initiatives • EU: MEDA-Water, Med-EUWI, INCO-MED, LIFE, MEDSTAT, SMAP • MEDA-Water projects presented: • EMWIS National seminars • Coordination Committee seminars • EMWIS portal, e-Flash • International water projects database: • Starting with water projects funded by the EU in MPC

  18. 9. Liaison with international initiativesOverview &Status (1/2) • Co-ordination of activities and agreement preparation • Mediterranean Water Institute: agreement to be extended for the MEDA-Water RMSU • Med-EUWI • MoU agreed • Groundwater & water scarcity working groups of the Joint Process using EMWIS as a facilitating platform • Global Water Partnership Med • EMWIS Technical Unit membership • International Network of Basin Organisations (Med network) • Agreement renewed in 2005 • SMAP-RMS (APAT, IT) • Agreement signed for the provision of information the water section of the SMAP clearing house • EXACT – water WG of the Middle-East Peace process • OSS – Sahara and Sahel Observatory • European Environment Agency (web portal technology, thesaurus, water monitoring) • FAO, IPTRID • Discussion on the future EMWIS technical architecture • Other relevant initiatives: • BALWOIS: involvement of Balkan countries, preparation of a MoU • Med Water information partnership study • MAP-RAC, Medpol, Eurostat/MEDSTAT environment, EEA, WHO/UNICEF JMP, Unesco-WWAP, etc.

  19. Activities planned for 2007 (transition period) • Organisation of a Steering Committee meeting and a NFP coordination seminar • Complementing the implementation of local services and web content translation by EMWIS NFP • Maintaining the EMWIS websites and monthly e-news flash, including the dissemination of MEDA-Water results • Complementary feasibility studies with voluntary countries on the regional water observation mechanism

  20. Action Plan 2007-2010

  21. Working groups objectives • Objectives: • To get knowledge on other countries experiences • To prepare pilot experiences based on the lessons learnt from other countries • Preparatory work already carried out: • Identification of existing experiences that may lead to exchange of know-how with other countries • Countries priorities for which exchange of know-how could be valuable • Joint activities with other existing initiatives (when relevant) • Joint Process between the EUWI and the EU Water Framework Directive

  22. Participative approaches in Integrated Water Resources Management • Potential leader country: • Algeria • Potential member countries: • Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Italy, Lebanon, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey • Potential topics: • Concertation mechanism, Participative approach in managing agricultural water, involvement of the private sector, NGO and local authorities, participative approaches for waste water reuse

  23. Risk prevention and management of extreme phenomena: Water scarcity (JP) and Floods • Potential leader country: • Morocco (Water scarcity) – Tunisia (Floods) • Potential member countries: • Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey • Potential topics: • Floods: prevention, alert systems and management • Drought: prevention, Early warning & proactive measures to alleviate effects of droughts, water savings, awareness campaigns

  24. Non conventional water resourcesDesalination and Waste water re-use (JP) • Potential leader country: • Spain (Desalination) – Jordan/Malta (Waste water reuse) • Potential member countries: • Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Italy, Lebanon, Jordan, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Spain, Tunisia • Potential topics: • Envirnonmental impact, Management of waste water reuse (applications, quality standards), low cost desalination technologies, artificial rain

  25. Local management of sanitation services and Prevention of domestic pollution • Potential leader country: • France • Potential member countries: • Algeria, Cyprus, France, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Spain, Tunisia • Potential topics: • Access to sanitation, small communities, legislation, location of sewage stations, governance of services, pollution prevention, delegation of service, monitoring/benchmarking of service delivery

  26. Euromed Water Directors meeting 6-7 Nov. 2006 AthensMain result • Need for better coordination of all processes related to water in the region, particularly within the framework of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) • Continuation of Forum of the Water Directors of the Euro-Mediterranean and Southeastern European Countries • Proposal for a Euro-Mediterranean and Southeastern European countries’ Ministerial Conference on Water

  27. Euromed Water Directors meeting EMWIS outcome • Reminder on the key role of information systems on water, aquatic environments and their use was highlighted for better governance and integrated water resources management. • Major EMWIS contribution to the improvement of NWIS in several countries of the region. Request for co-funding from the EC for NWIS and EMWIS Action Plan 2007-2010 • Synergy developed between EMWIS and the MED EUWI / WFD Joint Process working groups. • EMWIS working group on ‘Water Monitoring’ with interested countries within the MED EUWI / WFD Joint Process. • Synergy developed between the EEA together with EMWIS and MedPol for the monitoring of the Horizon 2020 Initiative. • Agreement to conduct the 2nd phase of the study related to the water observation mechanism with • further analysis and first tests of a proposed regional water information partnership with linkages with related regional initiatives.

  28. Comments and Questions

More Related