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UK NORDIC BALTIC SUMMIT: 19-20 JANUARY 2011
DENMARK FINLAND UNITED
KINGDOMLITHUANIA SWEDEN
ESTONIA ICELAND LATVIA NORWAY
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Practical solutions for environmental challenges: using GIS as action tool for civil society
Synopsis: Environmental problems reported daily to the initiative “Guarding Earth” reminds that despite existing laws and requirements a lot of challenges demands stronger initiatives to deal with them. Environmental NGO with help of GIS technology provides opportunity for everyone make a practical change for cleaner environment. Solution for environment - opportunity for business, civil society and public sector.
Presenter: Mr. Žymantas Morkvėnas
Short Biography: Biologist. Active in the environmental field since 1995, have been recognized within leading environmental community as initiator and nominated leader of environmental NGO Coalition. Since 2003, leading environmental NGO - Baltic environmental forum, which is proactive and recognised as leading environmental NGO in Lithuania.
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“Obvious - that’s not a holy water!”reports Ms. Laima
350 m2 “oil lake”“Globe Assimi” oil tankercrash in the Baltic sea November 1981
Dumped 600 000 tones of contaminated soilSoviet environmentalmanagement remains
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The TOOL
Simple to report
Advisor to environmental management
Efficient to solve
“Everybody can make a change” in practice
“Magic recipe” workflow
Transparency & feed backing on geospatial data
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Effective public response to environmental challenges
Power of public monitoring
Geo-spatial data brings benefit for public administration
NGO arguments based on data
Involved business: image and contributionto practical initiative of public
Benefit Before
After
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55,8% 21,8% 2,9% 19,5%
1300 reports received
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Vision for futureInternational scale
Guarding Earth on mobile devices
Technology and geo-spatial data facilitates social networking
Žymantas MorkvėnasE-mail: [email protected]: +370 614 725 97 www.bef.lt