Ashoka Trust
Challenge
To address an urgent need to integrate relevant scientific knowledge to deal with natural resource management and conservation issues, by establishing a centre which brings together knowledge of information technology and ecology to further the conservation
and wise management of India’s natural resources
Ashoka Trust needed to establish a centre which brings together knowledge of information technology and ecology to further the conservation and wise management of India’s natural resources.
Solution
Using Pitney Bowes Business Insight's MapXtreme Java mapping development tool to create an Eco-Informatics Portal, www.ecoinfoindia.org, with a web-enabled GIS to provide geographic information on conservation and the environment to the scientific community in India and abroad, at no cost, allowing users to visualise, analyse, and integrate various types of data.
Category: Natural Resources