ICT success stories

20 ICT success stories are presented on the site Regional Initiative on Information and Communication Technology and the Environment: Promoting e-Sustainability in Asia-Pacific (ICTEAP).

Two of them are on water:

Jal-Chitra software: keeping track of water in villages, India

Jal-Chitra, a software, basically creates an interactive water-map of the village, enables the community to keep records of the amount of water available from each water source, can record water quality testing, lists maintenance work done and required, estimates water demand, generates future monthly water budgets (based on past records), and shows the amount of community need met through rainwater harvesting systems.

Jal-Chitra is currently being tested in two villages of Rajasthan - one near Tilonia by Social Work and Research Center (SWRC), and another in Todd garh by Mazdoor Kissan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS).

Human Resources Building for Water Resource Management, China

From 2000 - 2005 a training management system utilizing ICTs is being introduced.

The objective is to prepare educational materials and to carry out training programmes for water resource management and dam construction management in China to meet local demands for water experts.

The system will provide trainees with curricula and learning materials through the Internet and enable trainers to know the levels of understanding of the trainees.

Environment stories

Other interesting stories on this site include:

• Farmers in Rajasthan learn innovative farming techniques through e-networking
• ‘Information villages’ of Pondichery in southern India where easy access to information are shaping daily livelihood activities of the rural poor
• The Industrial Waste Exchange Programme in The Philippines
• The success stories also include the ‘Gyandoot’ Internet and voice connectivity system in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh in India, the SIDSnet (Small Island Developing States Network) that connects 43 states across the globe, the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network that operates in 80 countries in six regions including South Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific, and many more such cases.

Last updated: 21 February 2003