Southeast Pacific Data and Information Network to Support the Integrated Coastal Area Management Project of Perú
Original (non-English) name
Proyecto Spincam Perú
Acronym
Spincam project Perú
Citation
Abstract
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), within its institutional activities, is implementing projects related to tools that support
coastal marine management in different countries around the world, such as Africa,
the Caribbean, Latin America, among others.
From 2009 to the present, with the financing of the Flemish Government of Belgium,
the IOC and the Permanent Commission of the South Pacific (CPPS) are coordinators of the development of the project "Network of Information and Data of the South Pacific in support of Integrated Management of Coastal Areas "(SPINCAM), in which 5 countries of the Ocean participate Southeast Pacific which are Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru; establishing a national focal point and two technical focal points for each country.
In Peru, the national focal point is the Ministry of the Environment (MINAM) who signed the agreement with the CPPS in 2014, in which it is responsible for carrying out the project with the support of technical focal points such as the Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation (DHN), who is in charge of preparing and supervising
the website, where the atlas is located, the OceanDocs repository and coordinating the Data and Information Management Group (GMDI) and the Institute of the Peruvian Sea (IMARPE) who is in charge of collecting the indicators from the institutions and sending them to the DHN for be located in the atlas. The aforementioned project aims to implement a useful tool achieving data interoperability through the atlas, so that specialists have easy access to the indicators that support the management of coastal marine management.