From 2003-09-09 to 2003-09-12

Venue: Delft, the Netherlands

Summary:

Good and accessible information is the basis for making decisions about water resources. The Water Information Summit will focus on strategies to overcome the "digital divide" between North and South and within the South and to share knowledge and information in support of the management of the water sector.

WIS-6 brings together communication specialists, information managers, web site managers, academics, scientists, policy-makers, and other water information users and providers and will provide a forum to discuss the state of the art and trends in knowledge management, the application of web-based technologies and the formation of partnerships. One focus for the Summit will be the future of water portals - web based interactive sites which make it easy to search water related web sites.

Small working groups will deal with topics, such as e-learning, water portal development, adoption of metadata standards, and water information assistance services (help desks).

Organizers: IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre
Water Web Consortium
Contact Name: Ms. Ingeborg Krukkert (IRC)
E-mail: wis6delft@irc.nl
URL: http://www.irc.nl/news/wis6.html