27 May 2007

Water-related Information System for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong Delta (WISDOM)
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Supplied note:
"Joint German-Vietnamese Research Program 'WISDOM' (Water-related Information System for the sustainable Development Of the Mekong Delta)
The approach is to design an information system that integrates multidisciplinary expertise of research institutes, universities, state agencies and small medium enterprises. This information system will integrate existing and newly generated data and enable more efficient analysis and distribution of water-related information. The objective of WISDOM is to enable stakeholders to build-up, maintain, use and extend their capacity for processing, modelling and analysing spatial and statistical information with respect to sustainable natural resource management and water-related development in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.
The provision of water related data and information, such as hydrological, climate and socio-economic data constitutes the core aspect of the project. Nevertheless, the provision of data and information itself does not automatically lead to a more efficient and sustainable water resources management. Before knowledge can be used it must not only be generated but also represented and disseminated. Capacity building and research in Knowledge Management will therefore be carried out in the first phase of the project 2007 to 2010.
The program will be a joint effort of The Southern Institute of Water Resources Research Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology - Division of Remote Sensing and GIS Southern Institute of Social Sciences Can Tho University German Aerospace Center (DLR) - German Remote Sensing Data Center Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn United Nations University - Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bonn, and other institutions in Vietnam and Germany. The research program will be jointly financed by the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). - hde."
URL http://www.zef.de/1052.0.html
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Link reported by: Hans-Dieter Evers (hdevers--at--uni-bonn.de)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30