EMWIS National Information Seminar in Egypt, 10 February 2007

EMWIS National Focal Point in Egypt, the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation –MWRI-, organised, in Cairo last 10th February 2007, a national workshop to launch EMWIS National website project in Egypt. Dr. Mahmoud Abu Zeid, Minister of Water resources and Irrigation, opened the workshop stressing the importance of sharing water information within and outside the MWRI for the water stakeholders but also to use EMWIS to inform the general public. H.E. Dr Abu Zeid who took part in the creation of EMWIS at the Ministerial conference of Marseilles in 1996, foresees 2 main routes for EMWIS in the future: i) the organisation of data-flows within the countries (a priority of the Egyptian Water Master Plan) and ii) the exchange of information and know-how between countries.
The development of the Egyptian EMWIS website is supported by the Italian cooperation.

 Photo: From left to right: representative from the Italian Ambassy and H. E. Dr. Mahmoud Abu Zeid, Ministerof Water Resources and Irrigation, Egypt.

	Agenda of EMWIS National Information Seminar in Egypt, 10/02/2007
	List of Participants - Cairo EMWIS workshop EMWIS National workshop in Egypt, 10 February 2007 Launch of National website development
	EMWIS TU. presentation by Mr. Eric MINO, Coordinator of EMWIS Technical Unit.
	Center Information Systems at the Ministry of Water Resources & Irrigation (MWRI) by Dr. Mohamed Rami – Director General Center Information Systems, MWRI, and EMWIS National Focal Point Coordinator in Egypt. (This presentation is a resumed version)
	Strengthening of Main Information Center (MIC) of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) in its capacity of National Focal Point (NPF) for the Euro-Mediterranean Water Information System (EMWIS) Progress on the Italian support to the NFP by Dr. Andrea Tani – Co manger of establishing EMWIS national focal point in Egypt.
	Progress on Project and Future Prospectives for Egypt: 1st Draft of the National EMWIS Website by Dr. Wael Khairy, Ministry of Water resources and Irrigation, Egypt.
	Photos EMWIS National Information Seminar in Egypt, 10th February 2007.
	Cairo Workshop press book The press articles are issued from the following journals: Massaiah, Alwafd, Rosa Daily & Elakhbar.
	EMWIS National Information Seminar in Egypt, 10 February 2007