E-Geo Library

August 1, 2024

Key Facts

Category / Services

Innovation

Web Applications

Quality Control Tools

Location

Ethiopia

Timeframe

March 2024

Ongoing

Tools

DMS

Map/Data viewer

Synchronization & spatial management tool

Volume

Challenges

Reestablishing the scientific community and information exchange after the war.

Centralizing water sector data in a digital repository accessible to all stakeholders.

Training local staff to effectively use modern GIS and IT systems for better collaboration.

Solutions

Implement robust digital communication tools to reconnect the scientific community.

Develop a centralized, user-friendly digital repository for water sector data.

Conduct comprehensive training programs on modern GIS and IT systems for local staff.

Results

Reconnected scientific community with improved information exchange.

Centralized and easily accessible water sector data for stakeholders.

Enhanced local staff capabilities in using modern GIS and IT systems for collaboration.

E-Geo-Library for Mekelle university in Ethiopia

The project is partly funded by the Czech AID/UNDP and partly co-financed by the implementers, which are Ircon, Yungo, Digitální strážce and the University of Mekelle. The project beneficiary is Mekelle University, College of Natural and Computational Sciences.

Due to the recent war, the university is suffering from disconnection of the scientific community as well as being limited to exchange information or provide relevant data to its students, public/private sector. Creating E-Geo-Library aims to gather all relevant information regarding the water sector and keep it under one system in digital form available for all stakeholders. This will result in the development of new knowledge, improvement in communication and providing available data.

The objective of this project is to create E-Geo-Library as a new IT platform to be implemented by Mekelle University for centralized data storage, facilitating collaboration in data sharing and providing a user-friendly environment for searching among data based on keywords, abstracts, authors, as well as geospatial information.

The architecture of the system has been designed, resulting into three components – Document management system (DMS) for data sharing, Map/Data viewer for data access via map and Synchronization & spatial management tool keeping the DMS aligned with the map viewer.

The whole system will be hosted on the MU server accessible via MU websites from where it will encourage MU staff, students, and partners to explore and further collaborate in the use, collection and sharing of data.

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Yungo's role in this project is not only to develop and implement the information system, the main objective of the project is to support the local partner, especially through sharing GIS and IT knowledge and opening a new channel, but also the mindset of local staff to collaborate in a modern and efficient way. Therefore, the project also includes several workshops and trainings that are organized directly at the university.

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**Figure 3 – Initial Workshop for project co-investigators and researchers, Mekelle university, Ethiopia**

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A demo version of the application is accessible at the following link:

https://demo.yungo.eu/me/

If you are interested in more details, please contact us. We offer the development of a similar platform and web applications directly for you, according to your data and your needs.

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