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Guest Posty by Thejesh GN

Article and Image Courtesy: Thejesh GN

Flood forecast alerts are provided by Central Water Commission. They have boring maps and tables. Also they don’t provide data in program accessible format. Members of ICTD for asia are working on parsing and storing that data. In the meantime I wanted something to play. I found ScraperWiki (hacker news discussion) which can be used to scrape data from any page and schedule it for running. It allows php, python and ruby languages. Its easy and gives lot more flexibility than Y! pipes to scrape that data. Here is my scraper to get the flood data. You will have to register to get an API to use the data. Data is available in JSON, XML, PHP etc.Read More

In an ongoing effort to understand the connections between water resources, water systems, and international security and conflict, the Pacific Institute initiated a project in the late 1980s to track and categorize global events related to water and conflict, which has been updated till November 2009. The application presents information in three ways - as a List, a Timeline and a Map, to better illustrate how conflicts over water, impact history.

For more info, view the Water Conflict Chronology (updated 11/09).Read More

Image & Content Courtesy:INET, ISOC, DEF

“Towards an Enabling Internet Access Environment” The Internet Society (ISOC), in collaboration with Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) is organizing the ISOC’s South Asia focused event ‘INET Delhi 2009’, a special conference on September 17, 2009. at Hotel Intercontinental, Nehru Place, New Delhi

The conference, will be focused on “ An Enabling Internet Access Environment in South Asia with a critical focus on Inclusive Development through the Internet”.Read More

Guest Post by: Stefania Balica, PhD student, Hydraulic Engineering and River Basin Development UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education

Stefania Balica who is doing PhD research at UNESCO-IHE, regarding Flood Vulnerability Index writes in with a request to contribute towards a related survey.

"At this point of my research, I am trying to find out which are the most important indicators of the flood vulnerability for each spatial scale by creating a poll, and I would like to request your help in order to find out these indicators.

The questionnaire will be applied to more than 200 persons with different backgrounds and cultures. It consists in merely filling up the questionnaire. The questionnaire contains three scales and will take around 10 minutes and you can find it on: http://www.unesco-ihe-fvi.org -> Poll/Questionnaire -> The three scales at the bottom of the page.Read More