26c87dba-74db-40f3-b23d-e960487cb607 eng Govinda Joshi MENRIS, ICIMOD Sr. Cartographer/GIS Analyst 977-1-5003222 977-1-5003299 Khumaltar Lalitpur Kathmandu 3226 Nepal metadata@icimod.org 2008-05-09T15:29:55 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 Everest 1830 Regional Spatial Data Infrastructure (RSDI) for Sustainable Mountain Development in the Hindu Kush-Himalyan (HKH) Region First Poverty alleviation and sustainable development of the mountain people in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region have been the main agenda of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). Realizing the potential of geographic information (GI) for sustainable mountain development, ICIMOD through its Mountain Environment and Natural Resources Information Systems (MENRIS) programme, has been working on promoting the use of GIS and related technologies in the HKH region. To this end, MENRIS is operationlising its strategy with four programmatic components, namely - capacity building and networking, integrated GIS data management, applications and spatial decision support systems, and metadata clearing house, which are essential elements of Regional Spatial Data Infrastructure (RSDI). Partnerships among the national and regional institutions and their capacity building have been the major strategies of MENRIS for the development of RSDI. The partnership initiative was designed to extend the full functional capabilities of national institutions by developing mutually supportive relationships with a focus on training and dissemination of geo-information technology and its applications. This paper describes the continuing efforts of ICIMOD to develop a sound RSDI to attain the common goals of an accurate geo-information base, which can then be used to support varieties of mountain specific applications. The paper also describes the current initiative in developing a network based architecture called Mountain GIS Portal. The Portal is aimed at leveraging the vast geographic resources that MENRIS developed over the years, such as metadata, spatial data, application methodologies, publications, educational and training materials and other GI related resources. The portal provides a platform for both ?user? and ?provider? of information in a distributed network environment. ICIMOD is working with its national partners to develop national GIS portals in a similar framework, which will be a part of the larger network at the regional level. In this way, ICIMOD envisages to create a distributed mountain geographic network in a building block approach, which will ultimately contribute to attain the goal of RSDI in the region. Basanta Shrestha MENRIS-ICIMOD MENRIS, Division Head 977-1-5003222 977-1-5003299 Khumaltar Lalitpur Kathmandu 3226 Nepal metadata@icimod.org Geographic Information; Mountain environment; Regional Spatial Data Infrastructure; Decision support system; Mountain GIS Portal; Mountain Geography Network The content of this website can be accessed, printed and downloaded in an unaltered form (altered including being stretched, compressed, coloured or altered in any way so as to distort content from its original proportions or format) with copyright acknowledged, on a temporary basis for personal study that is not for a direct or indirect commercial use and any non-commercial use. Any content printed or downloaded may not be sold, licensed, transferred, copied or reproduced in whole or in part in any manner or in or on any media to any person without the prior written consent of the ICIMOD eng environment -180 180 -90 90 Mr. Govinda Joshi MENRIS-ICIMOD Sr. Cartographer/GIS Analyst 977-1-5003222 977-1-5003299 Khumaltar Lalitpur Kathmandu 3226 Nepal metadata@icimod.org http://arcsde.icimod.org.np:8080/geonetwork/srv/en/resources.get?id=1565&fname=GSDI_Paper_2_Jan_2004.pdf&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download GSDI_Paper_2_Jan_2004.pdf From Various Sources