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Text & photo by
Maricar Reyes-Hina
The
Bataan Provincial Government in cooperation with the Bataan Coastal Care
Foundation and the UNOPS/ PEMSEA Resource Facility, implementing the Bataan
Integrated Coastal Management Program (BICMP), conducted a three-day training/
workshop on integrated information management system or IIMS on 16-18 June 2008
in Balanga City.
The IIMS for Coastal and River Basin
Management is a desktop database application, which manages a relational
database of environmental data. It will provide timely data recording and
updating of information for management and technological intervention, and to
facilitate date sharing via the internet. The software also enables storage,
display, query and report generation of environmental data and is capable of
viewing and producing graphical presentation.
Participants of the workshop include
the staff of the Project Management Office (PMO), representatives from the
PPDO, PG-ENRO, OPA, PENRO-DENR and MISO.
The computer unit is housed in the PMO
and supported by the server from MISO. The IIMS will be linked with
geographical information system (GIS) and will also be web-based.
Data collection is the most tedious
part of creating an IIMS database because of its accuracy, accessibility, and
availability. One must consider the quality, reliability and timeliness of
data.
We are targeting the end of October
2008 for the completion and operation of IIMS in the province. Updating and
maintenance of the system will be done by the PMO and MISO.
A similar system is already in place
at the Environmental Management Bureau for Manila Bay.
You can check out their website at http://iims.emb.gov.ph
for more information.
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Ms.
Bresilda Gervacio of PEMSEA giving a lecture on the dynamics of IIMS.
Participants
got busy on their laptops doing query exercises during the IIMS training.
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