My Living Environment

Atlas of My Living Environment&

Environment Aid

Two dutch initiatives to present at the

Workshop on Electronic Information Tools to Support the Implementation of the Aarhus Convention

in South-Eastern Europe

2010 november 26th

Corine Quarles van Ufford

Introduction

http://nl.linkedin.com/in/cquarles

http://nl.linkedin.com/in/cquarles

Topics to discuss

- the idea/thoughts which lead to the application   - technical profile of the application- citizens reactions and intensity to use- participation options provided- impact, results so far- cost- benefits in comparison with the traditional ways of

disseminating information- obstacles and challenges

Where are we on the E-PRTR-map?• E-PRTR http://prtr.ec.europa.eu/• http://prtr.ec.europa.eu/AreaOverview.aspx

Where is Gelderland?• Right now I’m skyping from Winssen, a little village in

the Nijmegen area. Later on I will zoom in on the city triangle of Apeldoorn Zutphen Deventer.

My living environment: Gelderland

• The only thing you need is a postal code and you get information on your environment www.mijnleefomgeving.nl

Gld.My Living EnvironmentComplaints and frequently asked questionsHandling of complaints and questions in backoffice of appropriate authorities

Gld.Mijn Leefomgeving

air pollution in the Nijmegen region

Permits on the internetUsing dublin core metadata standards File with current and future permits

Acces to justice

Permit: open document

Acces to justiceopen to participation and appeal

Atlas of the Living Environment• National atlas is currently in development• Atlas uses a virtual office to share documents

www.atlasinfo.nl

Why participate in national Atlas?

• We only show our provincial information • Data about the environment come from a lot of partners.• Citizens go to their local government first• Atlas uses modern open source technology• Efficient to work together• Harmonisation• •

Innovation Power City Triangle

• The project regional atlas city triangle is a pilot project in the national programme “atlas of the living environment

• Data of two provinces and 7 municipalities are assembled, using the national atlas open source toolkit

Structure of the regional Atlas

► Every municipality has to publish its own GIS-data (‘data at the source’)

► Municipalities have the choice to use commenrcial software or open source software to publish their GIS-data.

► For the municipalities and provinces that want to connect with the national environmental Atlas a toolkit has been developed.

► This toolkit contains free open source software so WMS, WFS and CSW be published (Geoserver) and maps can be presented on websites (Flamingo).

► The toolkit also contains a manual and there will be support (helpdesk).

Discussion with Skopje

Environment aid • At www.milieuhulp.nl you can ask questions about

the living environment. The answers come from a lot of organisations, governments and businesses.

Water management search

• Although not multilingual (yet), Bart found some english results on my question (water management)

Options for individual citizens/experts:

http://wikis.irion.nl/milieuhulp/index.php/Wat_kunt_u_op_Milieuhulp

What can you do on environment aid? • I want information about… • I want to do something for the environment • I want to do something against nuisance • I want make a complaint • I want to write the answer to a question • I want take part in a discussion• I want to help an individual citizen • I want a role as an expert editor • I want to add information • I want to give a donation

Participation options

Dialogue Eastern Europe• I want to help someone with waste and water

management in Eastern Europe

Pomoć za potrebe zaštite i očuvanja okoliša• Translation of the dutch “milieuhulp” into kroatian by my dear

collegue Petar Opić, who is working on a Twinning Project between the Waterboard Aa and Maas with the Bosilovo

Municipality and the region Strumica – Republic of Macedonia

Where is Bosilovo?

Topics to discuss

- the idea/thoughts which lead to the application   - technical profile of the application- citizens reactions and intensity to use- participation options provided- impact, results so far- cost- benefits in comparison with the traditional ways of

disseminating information- obstacles and challenges

Discussion with Skopje