The idea was created during GIS capacity building workshops organized by local authorities, NGOs and the Universities of San Francisco de Quito, Salzburg and others, during 2013 and put into a workplan at the first Geocommunity GALAPAGOS workshop in February 2014 at San Cristobal, Galapagos.

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Pushing forward - next steps towards a geoCommunity Galapagos

After gathering at GI-Forum Salzburg and discussing the preliminary findings of the first phase of the initiative, the project team agreed upon following areas of actions that will be tackled in the second half of 2014 in order to meet the project goals:

  • establishing stable and continuos communication channels between project members in Galapagos and the participating (inter-)national institutions
  • Prototyping of easy-to-use ArcGIS Server/OpenSource Applications as pilot projects of the proposed GSDI Galapagos
  • Dissemination of preliminary results amongst all project members and the GIS-community at Galapagos
  • Preparation of follow-up capacity building at Galapagos with long-term project partners such as WWF and the Galapagos National Park
  • Connecting Schools and Citizen Initiatives at Galapagos with similar partners in Ecuador and Austria
With this framework we hope to establish tight relations between project partners and other (GI-)stakeholders fostering exchange of know-how and building up capacity and providing ready-to-use GI-applications for and with Galapagos.
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