SIMES: Système d'information multimédia pour l'environnement sub-saharien

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 96.0267

Key words (English)

Information technology; multimedia systems; environment monitoring; know-how transfer

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: IP: 961620

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 4. Frame Research Programme - 8.1 Cooperation with 3rd countries & intern. organisations

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Universität Bern
Institut für Informatik und angewandte Mathematik

Partners and International Organizations (English)

Coordinator: INRIA, (F)

Abstract (English)

The project objective was to bring together African and European partners of the IT and environment fields in a collective endeavour to find the most relevant applications of the latest IT techniques to handle typical African environmental issues. In order to reach a good level of synergy and to obtain comprehensive results, several complementary domains of IT were selected for investigation, and two representative environmental pilot operations were chosen.
The project was also organised so as to achieve a sustainable technology and know-how transfer to the African partners, particularly through the involvement of African institutions from both IT and environment background and through the recruitment and on site training of young African specialists. From the technical point of view the project was organised around an open common platform based on standard Web technologies, able to integrate the various software tools developed, and to be replicated in the two and further pilot operations, so as to gradually build up a network of compatible informations systems, offering a global approach of African environment issues, accessible through a common Web gateway.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 96.0267