WATER RESOURCES INFORMATION PLATFORM

SEMIDE, HISPAGUA and SIAGUA

Leticia MARTINEZ ETAYO

Centro de Estudios y Experimentación de Obras Públicas

CEDEX

WATER RESOURCES INFORMATION PLATFORMPARTICIPATED BY SPAIN

Euro-Mediterranean Platformof Water Information

http://www.semide.net

Latin American Platform ofWater Information

http://siagua.org

Spanish Platform of WaterInformation

http://hispagua.cedex.es

Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector

International portal

SEMIDE/EMWIS

EMWIS is an initiative of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. It provides a strategic tool for exchanging information and knowledge in the water sector between and within the Euro Mediterranean partnership countries

All the countries involved in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership are concerned:

The 27 EU member states The 10 Mediterranean Partner Countries

At the conference of the Euro-Med Water Directors (Rome, Nov. 2005), it was decided to open EMWIS to the Mediterranean countries.

COUNTRIES

PARTNERS

DECISION MAKING

LEBANON

TURKEY

ITALY

SPANISH NATIONAL FOCAL POINT:

IN THE EURO MEDITERRANEAN NETWORK SEMIDE/EMWIS

IN THE LATIN AMERICAN NETWORK SIAGUA

SPANISH PLATFORM OF WATER INFORMATION HISPAGUA

COVER

CONTENIDOS HISPAGUA

78,0%

1,8%

4,8%

0,9%

0,1%0,6%

8,5% 5,1%0,1%

NOTICIAS CURSOS CONGRESOS LEGISLACIÓN DOCUMENTOS

MONOGRÁFICOS REVISTAS PROYECTOS PATENTES

PERCENTAGE OF DOCUMENTARY REGISTERS

PRESS NEWS

DOCUMENTS

WATER CULTURE

DOCUMENTS OF STATISTICAL DATA

NATIONAL, AUTONOMIC and EUROPEAN LEGISLATION

HISPAGUA UPDATE

Continues up-dating

Search, selection, documentary analysis

of the resources

Creation and update of data bases

Digital edition of contents. Design and publication of

Web pages

Users Website

Hispagua visibilitywithin access statisticsSAT COUNTER Application

As specialized platform in scientific and technical documentary subjects, we have reached a maximum value

which we maintain in a constant form

Latin American Information System on Water (SIAGUA)

TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM OF KNOWLEDGE TO THE SERVICE OF COOPERATION

SIAGUA is an information network supported by a national focal point (NFP) that act like national information systems andwith an international focal point (IFP) that coordinates and integrates the network.

SIAGUA is a virtual community that organizes itself

Without hierarchies, opened and decentralised With a responsible institution and a coordinator in each NFPWith a general system coordinator (NFP of Spain, Hispagua)With a guide of style to harmonize contents, designs technologies and software toolsFinanced in each NFP by its respective country

Participants:Member countries of the Latin America head of states and Government Summit;

Argentine HondurasBolivia MexicoBrazil NicaraguaColombia PanamaCosta Rica Paraguay Cuba PeruChile PortugalDominican SpainRepublican UruguayEcuador VenezuelaEl Salvador

www.siagua.org

International Focal Point

What contents has SIAGUA? (in NFP)

Being an open system, the contents depend largely on the profile of the organization that has taken the National Focal Point

We recommend the following contents for each NFP:

Description of the institutional organization’s competence on the water sector in the countryTechnical documentation, legal, economic and administrativeInstitutions and actors involvedTraining: courses, conferences and events, virtual forumsResearch & Development. Local experiencesLinks to websites and virtual networks of interestWater data (alphanumeric and graphics)Water culture

ARGENTINE BOLIVIA

COLOMBIA

BRAZIL

COSTA RICACHILE

CUBA

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

ECUADOR

MEXICO

NICARAGUA

PANAMA

PERU

PORTUGAL

URUGUAY

SPAIN

SIAGUA has to initiate a new phase, renovating the:

How?

With a new design and new organization of information

What?

Renewed contents adapted to interests and actualized current demands

Who?

Widening participation and the co-responsibility of the NFP

Renewed contents and the co-responsibility of the NFP

BrazilWater Networks

Brazil, Chile, Guatemala and HondurasWater Culture

Spain and MexicoInnovation and Best Practices

Argentine, Cuba and PanamaGroundwater

Argentine, Costa Rica and ChileLegislation

Paraguay and UruguayIndicators and Statistics

Nicaragua, Peru y Dominican RepublicExtreme Events

Main topics

The coordinators will prepare a working program distributed among the network members SIAGUA for information and to solicit suggestions, setting deadlines for each activity and proposed objective.

SIAGUATECHNOLOGY PLATFORM AND KNOWLEDGE AT THE

SERVICE OF COOPERATION

Training Plan 2007/2011 on the Conference of Water General Directors

Forum on National Dialogue (D.N.)

Virtual Space to meet all Ngo. Cooperation of Entities Operating in the World of Water and Sustainable Management of Water Resources