SIC ICWC PARTICIPATES IN AN ONLINE WORKSHOP “DIGITALISATION: SUPPORTING INCLUSIVE, SUSTAINABLE, AND EFFECTIVE WATER DIPLOMACY PROCESSES”
The Women in Water Diplomacy Network organized a workshop on 16 June 2023. This workshop sought to elaborate and discuss the 2023 International Women’s Day theme, “DigitAll: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality.” This theme is particularly significant for transboundary water cooperation processes – enabling transboundary water dialogues and supporting data sharing among other applications.
The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption and adaptation of digital pathways for dialogue and decision making across many transboundary basins. However, in many parts of the world – including transboundary basins in conflict sensitive areas – those that need support the most have the least access to online tools putting at risk particularly marginalized stakeholders.
This knowledge and experience sharing online workshop aimed to elevate lessons learned and good practices for the adoption of digital processes and tools with focus on eroding barriers to inclusive participation and supporting effective water cooperation.
Director of SIC ICWC, Dr. Dinara Ziganshina presented the digitalization processes and mechanisms in a transboundary context of Central Asia. The water agencies of the five Central Asian countries have been closely cooperating through the ICWC and under umbrella of the IFAS as long as over 30 years.
As part of its mandate, SIC ICWC develops and maintains different information tools, including the CAWater-Info portal, which integrates in its body a set of databases, knowledge base, and analytical tools and models. In addition, the remote sensing and GIS technologies applied there help to increase transparency of decision making, improve water use efficiency and raise economic benefits.
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