Meeting details

Start: 0900 Monday 2 November 2015
End: 1700 Friday 6 November 2015

Location: Kenya Meteorological Department Institute for Meteorological Training and Research (IMTR)
This workshop will be held in English.

Objective

RTH Nairobi, will play a central role in partnership with GISC Pretoria and GISC Casablanca in the exchange of information across central, eastern and southern Africa and in supporting the new WIS infrastructure and capabilities for the Region. The workshop aims to bring WIS/GTS experts from RA I up to date on the new functionality of WIS, the staff competencies required by Members to be able to implement and use WIS, and to clarify the role of the RTHs and GTS within WIS.

Participants will then refine the WIS implementation plan with a focus on GISC services in central, eastern and southern Africa.

Information for Participants

• Information note for participants prepared by Kenya Meteorological Department.

Reference Material

• RA-I WIS Implementation Plan
• Links to Manuals, Guides and other guidance material
• WIS Centres
• national WIS Focal Points
• Information to support metadata editing exercises
• Registering a WIS centre

Meetings of the RA-I Task Team on WIS Implementation

• Meeting of ad hoc RA-I Task Team on WIS Implementation, 21-26 September 2014.

Documents specific to the meeting

T	Name	Last Modified	Hits
	WIS-RA-1M2-Report.docx Report of the workshop	Wed 13 of Jan, 2016	148
	Agenda Agenda for the RA-I WIS Training and Planning Workshop, Nairobi, 2-6 November 2015.	Wed 28 of Oct, 2015	169
	C1 WIS status report for Ethiopia	Thu 05 of Nov, 2015	112
	C2 WIS status report for Kenya	Thu 05 of Nov, 2015	126
	C3 Country report from Mauritius	Thu 05 of Nov, 2015	123
	C4 WIS Status report for Rwanda	Thu 05 of Nov, 2015	104
	C6 Country report from South Sudan	Wed 04 of Nov, 2015	109
	C8 Country report from Tanzania	Wed 04 of Nov, 2015	104
	D01 RA-I WIS Implementation Plan including proposals made at the WIS-RA-I Planing workshop held in Casablanca 28-30 October 2015.	Fri 30 of Oct, 2015	125
	G1 Using OpenWIS to access the WIS catalogue	Fri 06 of Nov, 2015	119
	G2 Using OpenWIS to access products	Fri 06 of Nov, 2015	116
	G3 Using OpenWIS to manage WIS metadata	Fri 06 of Nov, 2015	118
	G4 GISC Casablanca capabilities	Fri 06 of Nov, 2015	113
	G5 Exercises using the WIS catalogue	Fri 06 of Nov, 2015	114
	G7 Status of GISC Casablanca	Fri 06 of Nov, 2015	109
	I01 Information about arrangements for the meeting	Wed 30 of Sep, 2015	290
	P1 Presentation 1 - Introduction to WIS (WIS 101-1)	Fri 30 of Oct, 2015	126
	P2 Presentation 2 - WIS Competencies - (WIS 101-0)	Mon 02 of Nov, 2015	124
	P3 Presentation 3 - Exchanging data through the WIS (WIS 101-2)	Mon 02 of Nov, 2015	114
	P4 Presentation 4 - WIS Discovery Metadata (WIS 101-6)	Mon 02 of Nov, 2015	128
	P5 Presentation 5 - Managing the WIS (WIS 101-3)	Fri 30 of Oct, 2015	116
	P6 Presentation 6 - Operating WIS (WIS 101-4)	Fri 30 of Oct, 2015	116
	P7 Presentation 7 - WIS Telecommunications (WIS 101-5)	Fri 30 of Oct, 2015	119
	R01 Revised RA-I WIS Implementation Plan with updated link speeds	Tue 10 of Nov, 2015	112
	W01 Comparison of WIS Discovery and WIGOS Interpretation metadata	Fri 06 of Nov, 2015	126