The Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH) in collaboration with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and other national and international partners have developed an online information tool to support policy and decision making process on biodiversity.
The informatics tool named TanBIF-GIS enable analysis and modelling of primary biodiversity data to support (biodiversity related) decision-making activities such as land use planning, design of protected areas, impacts of invasive species, weeds, pests and diseases on agricultural production and human health among others.
The tool allows users to perform meaningful analysis by integrating and using biodiversity data (including occurrence data, species-level data/ecosystem data) in combination with other type of data (geospatial, climatic, demographic, economic datasets). At this juncture, COSTECH calls for interested experts to develop “Show cases” on the application of TanBIF-GIS Tool for Biodiversity Policy/Decision Making, Management, Research and Education in Tanzania.
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Most of us do not have skills on TanBIF-GIS. I think the first thing could be to diseminate the skills to as many stskeholders as possible. Then stakeholders will see how they can apply the tool in their proposals.
ReplyDeleteMimi ni mmojawapo nisiyekuwa na knowledge ya hiyo tool.
IN addition to my forower i too doesnt undestand the meaning of such tool and how it works too thou it seams to have so many advantage so i kindly ask them to provide the training to some member like me!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks for being so innovative that is what we expected to get to some important isttition like COSTECH as to differ it with UTAFITI so keep it up becouse our technogy still uderdeveloped one.
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