Project Summary
The GAIA INCO-DC (Technological Cooperation with Developing Countries)
Project is a collaboration of ESS-ACA with partner
institutions in the UK, Italy, Argentina, China, Egypt, Mexico,
Thailand, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
ESS-ACA is the lead contractor and project coordinator.
Overall, GAIA aims to provide innovative tools and methods to promote the
conservation and the sustainable use of natural resources, compatible with
long-term equitable economic growth and enhancement of productive capacity
which is environmentally acceptable. At the same time, and through the
methodology used to address the first objective, it aims to integrate
developing countries, in particular those which have attained a higher
level of development, into the global information society; to combine
research skills established in developing countries institutions with their
EU counterparts and to facilitate the growth of an information and
communications area allowing developing countries to participate in solving
their regional problems with regard to development.
The primary vehicle of GAIA is information technology, and in particular,
a multi-media information system accessible through the Internet.
Designed to support both classroom teaching as well as distance learning,
the system combines a workstation based server part with a WWW information
system, addressing environmental issues and problems both at a global
scale as well as through a number of local and regional
case studies .
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