The 21st to the 23rd of October 2014 a workshop on data sharing was held at the Giraffe Ocean View Hotel in Dar es Salaam. It was organized by NEMC Tanzania in collaboration with the Norwegian Environment Agency. A representative from the Environmental Protection Agency in Ghana also contributed to the workshop. The activity was funded by the Norwegian program Oil for Development.
My role in this workshop was to contribute to this process throughout facilitation of discussions, presentations and dialogue with the participants. The participants were representatives from owners and users of environmental data in Tanzania. The workshop was funded by the Norwegian Oil for Development initiative.
This blog posting has been written to make information about the process available for the workshop participants as well as prospective stakeholders, researchers and for our own reference on the process.
You will find the workshop report attached as well as the executive summary in the distributed report. Continue reading