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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Dutch website to come on line to consolidate information on water technology


The Netherlands wants to make all knowledge related to water technology more accessible to all users.

A Wikipedia-like open source website has been developed for this purpose. The site - www.akvo.org - was launched last week at the World Water Week in Stockholm.
Director Jeroen van der Sommen of the umbrella organisation Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP) says the English-language site Akvopedia - 'akvo' means water in Esperanto - will become a centre of knowledge for financing and communication.
At Akvopedia, scientists, development organisations and private individuals can exchange information. The site will also be a virtual meeting place for donors and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Mr Van der Sommen says,
"You can compare it to a community on the web.
By Willemien Groot*
*RNW translation
26 August 2008
Radio Netherlands
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1 comment:

Thomas Bjelkeman said...

Akvo.org is also a project market place to quickly match projects to funds, as well as a place to enable simplified reporting for these project, through Akvo Really Simple Reporting (RSR).

August 27, 2008 at 4:52 AM

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