Web Gis Prototype

The goal of this work is to increase the use of the GIS (Geografic Information System) in developing countries that are lacking economic resources and technical skills. In these areas, GIS would be very useful for geospatial data management and analysis, graphics/maps production, spatial modelling and visualisation in help the management of the territory. This work follows a project to reduce the vulnerability of flood risk in some areas affected by “El Niño”. The project was financed by ECHO (European Community Humanitarian Office) for the Andean Region, and was carried out in Ecuador (Baba and Vinces Cantons) by COOPI (Cooperazione Internazionale) NGO, which developed risk maps of the intervention area and made them public. Web GIS is proposed to be a tool for the diffusion of geographic information that is gathered. At present, a demonstrative version has been implemented to raise funds in order to support both the customisation of the web GIS for a specific application, and training activities that would aim to transfer the know-how to developing countries for the autonomous development of web GIS using OpenSource and freeware technologies.