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<p>Dear colleagues<br>
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I have started a wiki at <a href="http://dewa03.unep.org/sdi-ea">http://dewa03.unep.org/sdi-ea</a> (that's in Nairobi, but mirrored on <a href="http://www.ungiwg.org/sdi-ea">http://www.ungiwg.org/sdi-ea</a> in New York) wherein the goods tested and developed during the current SDI-east Africa axercise will be posted. <br>
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This is very much a work in progress and only sparsely populated so far. I hope that what it lacks in polish it will make up for with practical utility. It will have all the training materials and installation kits that we use during SDI-EA capcity building, plus (I hope) later on the documents underpinning the evolving institutional framework needed to keep SDI-EA hanging together (let alone interfacing with international efforts like GEOSS and the UNSDI).<br>
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If nothing else you might ens up with a handy reference repository. You might also see this site become useful as a forum for exchanging experiences and bug fixes in implementing this stuff, but that'll depend on how much common experience we have.<br>
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We are going to need developing and maintaining this site. I hope to encourage enough of you to register to the site so that we split the tasks. Some immediate needs I know of are:<br>
- developing installation guides for the "toolkit" - maybe some of our alumni can at least proofread stuff and help us refine the readability<br>
- training notes (pedagogical version of the above)<br>
- descriptions of architecture, from isntitutional, data and technical posints of view.<br>
I'm sure there'll be lots more. <br>
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Feedback and advice are surely welcome. Meanwhile, I figure that the nairobi site will become meaningfully useful when the Un finally gets connected to the local internet exchange point in Nairobi (KIX) and can server local users without going to Italy and back on skinny satellite links.<br>
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Cheers<br>
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Mick Wilson<br>
Division of Early Warning and Assessment (DEWA)<br>
United Nations Environment Programme<br>
PO Box 30552 - Nairobi 00100, Kenya<br>
Tel: +254 20 7623436<br>
Fax: +254 20 7624315<br>
Email: mick.wilson@unep.org <br>
Web www.unep.net, www.unep.org<br>
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