Report Period Accomplishments January 1 – June 30, 2009
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4. Regional Networks and Knowledge Management 4.1
Report Period Accomplishments January 1 – June 30, 2009 East AfricaWestern Indian Ocean
The CRC SUCCESS Program in partnership with the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association WIOMSA assembled a Knowledge Management System KMS to serve the
WIOMSA network of countries. The WIOMSA Board agreed to coordinate a regional mariculture network and SUCCESS designed and implemented a web-based KMS in support
of this network. During this reporting period, the KMS was transferred to a new hosting facility established for WIOMSA as part of technical support to our partner. WIOMSA,
instead of CRC, will maintain the KMS moving forward. The system currently contains an inventory of 28 regional mariculture projects, a directory of 77 regional mariculture experts,
searchable by topic and species, and a publication library of nine regionally produced articles as well as an online forum with ~75 subscribers. The following graphic shows the level of
web hits for the WIO Mariculture site up until it was transferred to WIOMSA in May 2009. The June data does not reflect the full month’s worth of data.
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Latin America
Transfer of all KM activity for SUCCESS in Latin America was transferred to EcoCostas in a previous project term and no longer requires CRC support.
Global
The IMCAFS Newsletter, Basins and Coasts, did not produce an issue during this period. The final issue is scheduled for September 2009 and will be devoted to sharing key lessons
learned and achievements of the five year SUCCESS Program. A third Cross-Portfolio Learning Topic CPLT module—“General Approaches to
Addressing Mariculture as an Element of Integrated Coastal Management Programs
”—was developed this period. This module extends the topic beyond the pond-based and open-water
that has been the focus to date.