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COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGIES
(ICT)
IN
ADDRESSING WATER RELATED IMPACTS OF
CLIMATE CHANGE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The input in this evaluation was obtained from the procedures that were
provided during the perform shop whose idea was Innovative use of ICTS:
Connecting the gap between information creation and end customers for
atmosphere strength developing in Africa. The perform shop was structured
by MAKERERE UNIVERSITY GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
CENTRE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE IDRC-ICTWCC PROJECT
BASED AT UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, KENYA on Twelfth Dec 2014. This
was in collaboration with the IDRC financed project on impressive applying
ICTs in dealing with regular water relevant results of climatic change in
African-american, Japan and Latina The united states. Recognition goes to
IDRC-ICTWCC project group, grantees, organizers, companiens, keynote
sound system and members. Unique acknowledgement is prolonged to Ritah
Nakanwagi a Experts student from School of Queensland Australia for your
time and attempt put in compiling this evaluation.
1.0 Release
This evaluation introduces the procedures that took position during the
perform shop that was organised at Makerere University-Kampala on Twelfth
Dec 2014 in the Greater education of Technological innovation, Style, Art and
Technological innovation. The perform shop idea was Innovative applying
ICTs: Connecting the gap between information creation and end customers
for atmosphere strength developing in Africa. It was structured by Makerere
School Regional Details Techniques Middle in collaboration with the IDRCICTWCC project based at the School of Nairobi, South africa under the
guidance and host of Dr. Barasa Bernard. Primary of the perform shop was to
offer the grantees from African-american an opportunity to spread their
research results aimed at influencing strategy formulations. About 170
members attended the perform shop and among these were the worldwide
and nationwide grantees from Ethiopia, South africa, Malawi, Uganda and
Cameroon. From Uganda , the members included: Member of Parliament for
Bufumbira Eastern, seen in Western Uganda and Chairperson of the
Parliamentary Community forum on Climate Modify, different Ministry
associates in Uganda who involved Secretary of state for regular water and
Environment, NWSC and lands and Survey, Learners and lecturers from
Dr. Venney
The globe has come to terms with the reality that our atmosphere and
atmosphere is modifying at an unprecedented amount. The weeknesses and
effect due to climatic change varies in space and time. Technological
innovation has also confirmed that much of the changes in worldwide
atmosphere are majorly due to individual activities or what is generally termed
as climatic change.
How did we get there?
There are two elusive technological innovation whose definitions and
interpretation have kept modifying to suit different interests and they seem to
be the resource of complication. Environment has been variously defined to
the level that it is sometimes amorphously described to exclude humans.
Environment has been considered a constant and taken for granted no matter
what occurs in the interest of man. The other is financial growth which is so
wide to determine but we acknowledge that the economic system of the globe
has typically grown depending on exploitation of organic sources. After
decades of ecological deterioration due to rampant organic sources
exploitation and contamination all in the name of monetary growth, the globe
embraced maintainable growth which has mostly remained governmental
jargon rather than practical undertaking especially in the third globe.
I sincerely thank the various students who are going to see us their medical
results in the perform shop. Iam informed that medical results to be shared
involved various topics ranging from use of ICTs to improve the potential of
insecure places to deal with stress triggered by atmosphere change;
integration of natural information with modern ICT to deal with the hazards of
climatic change and water; developing relationships , systems and
stakeholder collaboration through use of ICT; creating more beneficial
government systems to handle restricted and modifying regular water
resources; to applying of regular water sources and tracking climate
predictions.
I wish to extend a vote of thanks to the International Development Research
Middle (IDRC) for the generous financial assistance towards these studies
agenda and for assisting graduate training. IDRC assistance has helped to
groom a new creation of scholars in the Eastern Africa position and I hope
that the collaborative academic links will proceed to thrive. I thank the
organizers of day and I is my sincere hope that the perform shop will lead to
more impressive use of ICTs and promote further methodological
developments in your field of research.
With these few comments, I wish you an engaging and successful perform
shop and a pleasant and interesting stay in Makerere School.
As we create for the long run. Thank You.
Key observe deal with from Hon. Kwizera Eddie Wa-Gahunga- Member of
Parliament Bufumira Eastern and Chair of the parliamentary forum on climatic
change in Uganda.
Protocol
Distinguished grantees, members, Ladies and Gentlemen
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the organizers of the perform
shop for the trust put in me to deliver this keynote document.
Introduction
At worldwide stage, climatic change is centered on regular water by either
having too much or too little of it.
Another critical facet of climatic change is improve in worldwide temperature
ranges which has a direct keeping on regular water through evaporation. The
cause of climatic change is mainly attributed to atmosphere individual
activities.
Africa
Apart from Cameroon, the rest of the nations represented here nowadays are
either within or neighboring the Nile sink, which is an important regular water
catchment for many Africa nations. According to forecasts by the
intergovernmental board on climatic change, improve in temperature ranges
and great rainfall fall variation are predicted in the sink by years
2030.Underground aquifers position also a big resource of regular water for
African-american at huge and Uganda in particular but either lowering or
drying up of regular water tables has also been predicted by experts.
Uganda
Changes in rainfall fall regimes, (i.e. prolonged draughts and unusually very
great rainfall fall intensity) and rising of regular temperature ranges have
already been projected and observed in Uganda. A lot of uncertainties in
forecasts about the predicted degree of change under different climatic
change circumstances still remain.
Such doubt can easily result into maladaptation and therefore JIAYU S3
phone demands immediate, incorporated low regret reactions which are
capable of developing strength among the entire regular water dependent
industry and at different stages of society.
The impressive strategy of using ICT in dealing with regular water relevant
results of climatic change is one of such strategy which should be supported
in efficiently disseminating atmosphere information and developing updated
information bases that will facilitate quick reactions to the results of climatic
change at various stages.
By using different ICTs atmosphere designs should be created under different
circumstances in order to reduce the possibility of maladaptation.
Use of impressive ICT resources (e.g. smartphones, maps) to help places in
Uganda change and mitigate regular water relevant results of climatic change.
1.Use of ICT resources such as radios and DOOGEE X5 Pro mobile phones
have been used to spread climate predictions and atmosphere tracking to
cultivators and pastoralists during droughts and periods of intense rainfall fall.
2.Empowerment of such insecure places to deal with regular water extreme
conditions (drought, flooding etc.) through regular communication and
awareness development has increased the ability to implement localized
variation activities. For example farming places across the nation are now
practicing ground and regular water preservation activities.
3.By the use of ICTs choice creators have been able to coordinate initiatives
during excessive atmosphere activities and strengthened community
networking sites, inclusiveness and processes of learning. A very good
The overarching purpose of this treatment program's to make sure that all
stakeholders
deal with climatic change results and their causes through
appropriate activities while advertising maintainable growth and a green
economic system. Support to on-going initiatives to make sure that climatic
change concerns are included in nationwide initiatives for maintainable longterm preservation, access and effective utilization and control of regular water
sources is one of the variation strategy priorities.
Basing on the above purpose and priority, synergies can be established with
the nationwide ICT power and other stakeholders to make sure that
distribution of variation information is given the utmost importance. PFCC for
example is working around the corner to secure funds for distribution of
atmosphere information to the common populace using different ICT channels.
It is also possible to create the overarching purpose to advertising the use of
ICT in dealing with the results of climatic change on regular water sources.
Within the structure of climatic change strategy, Use of ICT may be used for
the following areas:
i.Development of acting resources for the regular water industry as an
appropriate evaluate to analyze the results of climatic change on regular water
resources;
ii.Estimation of upcoming regular water availability to guide regular water
resource preparing and control.
iii.Estimation of climatic change effect on ground regular water sources
iv.Development of regular water use scenarios; acting the effectiveness of
regular water control variation techniques under different atmosphere
circumstances and
v.Quantifying hydrologic sensitivity to atmosphere (rainfall-temperature runoff
relationship etc.)
The Uganda National ICT strategy 2012
The strategy articulates the need to use ICT in minimizing ecological
deterioration, handling mishaps as well as in establishment of tracking
systems to prediction and monitor the effect of organic and man-made
mishaps. Under this treatment strategy, ICT can be used on analyze predict
and spread details about regular water sources under a modifying atmosphere.
i.Review increase the National Climate change Policy to determine precise
activities of strengthening the use of climatic change variation and
minimization strategies; including potential developing.
1.Political-Institutional transformation
Ministry of regular water and atmosphere
i.Climate change Unit-Climate change Department
ii.Department of meteorology-Uganda National Metrological Authority (UNMA)
iii.Water for production-rehabilitation of irrigation schemes
iv.GIS
OPM
Disaster preparedness
NDP
2.Policy : NWP,NCCP
3.Strategic framework: NAPA,IWRM, REDD+ DRR, Shrub growing act
IWRM is dependant on two principles:
i.Fresh regular water is a finite and insecure resource, essential to maintain
life, growth and the atmosphere.
ii.Water growth and control should depend on participatory strategy, involving
customers, organizers and strategy makers at all stages.
iii.Women play a primary part in the provision, control and safeguarding of
regular water.
iv.Water has an financial value in all its competing uses and should be
recognized as an financial good.
4.Projects: Associates, NGOs, CBOs and locally based innovations for
adaptation
5.CHAI: Climate change variation using ICT-Enhancing variation potential of
places to climatic change induce regular water relevant difficulties using ICT in
Uganda.UCH,FHI-360,MWE,MAK,LGs financed by IDRC.
A research based lead project on group variation to CC in 3 regions of the
cattle corridor (Nakasongola, Soroti and Sembabule) with Rakai as a control.
The perform studied historical rainfall fall information to comprehend famine
circumstances using standardized precipitation index (SPI).
i.Trained climate and industry information collectors
ii.Installed Linux web server at UNMA
climatic change but one of the means to spread details about CC. It should
not be treated as superior but complementary to the existing means. Given
our low degree of computer literacy, prior training to the use of ICT equipment
for this purpose should be embedded in any variation program. Use of ICT in
ICT variation comes to bridge the gap between the evolving perform of
atmosphere researcher and the user places.
It is therefore crucial that the effect of ICT mediated variation in helping the
potential and strength of other places is assessed over a many years. While
the causes of CC originate from regional/global sources, REAL activity to
reduce the severity of results is essentially rooted at local stage with such
methods like tree growing, effective use of energy, reducing, reusing and
recycling of materials. Climate science should be handled by the technological
group while the critical mass consuming and applying the information/
information should be devoted to activities at local and local stages in order to
reverse the existing trend; like the EIA practice, it should become a
requirement to mainstream climate and atmosphere evidence all our sectoral
growth financial commitment. We need to upgrade enhance our climate
tracking systems. Limited financial commitment in atmosphere science:
Weather and atmosphere information and information selection, research,
distribution and action; the lack of adequate information and information to
completely comprehend the changes and trends. We have huge gaps in
information and information to create a situation at nationwide and local
stages which in turn affect s preparing and creating decisions. For example,
only 1/10th of met channels are functional.
Strengthen the potential of authorized institutions-out of time frame and
inadequate processing systems and equipment: Increasing the accuracy of
predictions needs helping the quality of the designs, which in turn needs
higher processing energy.
Poverty is risk factor to atmosphere change;
There continues to be a great need to identify information organised by
natives. Although in the face of a modifying atmosphere it is not certain that
existing variation techniques will be sufficient in the long run, yet they must be
the position to start on the which to begin. Local technological innovation that
aid places to deal and adjust to excessive climate activities but do not
advance well on the ground and may even lead to violation of basic individual
rights. Time-after it is discovered that places which discuss their guidelines,
techniques and techniques are those that can improve their strength to modify
and challenges;
Sustainable variation to climatic change is not possible without use of climate
and climatic change information in variation strategies;
Question 5: Mekonnen what is the take home message for researcher since
all your suggestions are for government?
Question 6: David Ilima there was restricted knowledge of hydrological
circumstances.
Response: There are suggestions in my research for strategy creators for
example on hydrological circumstances. True there are bore holes available
but I considered why they fail? I thought there are hydrological circumstances
which is roofed in my objectives.
Question 7: Francis Smell you stated much about climatic change variation
and forgot about variation. How do you look at the two issues? Can we use
others other than monetary systems?
Response: Without ICTs it would have been impossible for this research.
There are some imperatives about climatic change especially during the dry
season individuals line up till afternoon. But the crucial within design and style
not actually due to climatic change is useful.
Question 8: Barasa Bernard, year 2014 has not ended, what is your view time
frame?
Response: I Used Landsat to evaluate lake regular water level and to
discover the amount on monthly and every week foundation using measured
information. This technique can be used on every week foundation in
catchment places. In regards to famine, there is a lot of literature about
climatic change results and aspects accountable for climatic change but to
what level they can achieve this each month is what I considered.
Question 9: David illima, I suggest you add on the issue of agroforestry as a
evaluate which should be tackled particularly in towns.
Question 10: Mekonnen there is need to have a further knowing about the
yearly repercussions of climatic change. You need to consist of aspects
contributing to those changes. Go further to discover the about river. That
position has a lot of industrialization. This is an position that can go to strategy
creators.
Question 11: Farmers invest to adjust climatic change variation because many
of natives are stuck and have no knowledge of climatic change but have
always had dependency syndrome. May be it can be the increment of money.
You can come up with a great perform strategy which contains interest
amount of 1o% but they go for the loan that carries 20%.
Response: A cultivator sometimes needs external influence and therefore
govt and community collects what is called community goods.
With
of places and durability and some of the perform for standard interval.
Mapping the regular water aquifers and regular water flows is a necessity in
the use of ICTS in atmosphere resilient developing in African-american.
5.0 Ending remarks
Closing comments were provided by Dr. Gidudu Anthony who mentioned that
there are so many Africans methods to climatic change and some of them can
be seen in many publications. He stressed that the system that has been
established between different stakeholders is very crucial in solving the
problems triggered by climatic change. He thanked the group innovator of
ICTWCC whose attempt was evident by the demonstrations from various
students. He mentioned that at the GIS centre they will be able to system with
different organizations that consist of UBOS, NARO, IUCN and other partners
from different nations.