1 1 EnviroWindows Paolo G. Meozzi European Environment Agency Email: [email protected] Networks and environmental information market-place for the.

1 European Environment Agency 1

EnviroWindows

Paolo G. Meozzi

European Environment AgencyEmail: [email protected]

Networks and environmentalinformation market-place for the

doers

http://ewindows.eu.org


In This presentation

• EnviroWindows Point of access

• The EEA information system

• EW Software Tools

• What is EnviroWindows today

• Main elements of EW

• Interest Groups

• Interactive Portals


•Support the EEA information strategy, e.g., framing and implementing policies including best practice. Partners in this effort will be business groups, local authorities and non-governmental organizations

•Reach outside the EEA’s institutional network to help business and local authority stakeholders to share experience

Objectives


Entering EnviroWindows: the EEA homepage


Environmental protection expenditure (’98)

© European Communities, 2001

Investments and current expenditure in public sector and industry

industry

public sector


EnviroWindows homepage


EnviroWindows Reports


EnviroExperts homepage


Enrolment (1/3)


Enrolment (2/3)


Enrolment (3/3)


Asking questions (1/6)


Asking questions (2/6)


TheReference

Centre

EEA

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Keyclients(EC...)Serving

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State

Impact

Pressures

Quality

Pollutants

Health,Ecosystems, Materials

CausesDrivingForces

Laws

Corporate environmental responses

Directives Int.l Standards

Responses

CorporateEnvironmentalManagement

EMAS

(IPP)

ConformanceCompliance

Regulations

Voluntary


• Information and communication technology tools to facilitate collaborative work among thematic groups of interest: GroupWare

• Open Source web application server to enables teams to collaborate in the creation and management web-based applications such as intranets and portals: Interactive Portals

• Ad Hoc information services

What is EnviroWindows today?


•GHG reduction

•Needs of Future generations

Dimension UnsustainableTrends

Challenges

Support to EU Strategy for Sust. DevelopmentContribution of CorporateEnvironmental Management

Corporate Environmental Management

Economic

Environment

SocialSocial

• Depletion of Natural resources

• Climate Change• Hazardous

chemicals• Increased of Waste

Quality of life

Healthcare

Education

Wealth

Jobs


Environmental Policy (I&E)Plans, Objectives, and informative roles in relation to the aim of communicating

Risk Assessment (I&E)Estimating risks, likelihood of occurrence, risk management

Responsibilities (I)EHS incorporated into mainstream management and operations

Control Activities (I)On organization, information processing, operation performance

Information & Communication (E)Formal & Informal, open dialogue with stakeholders

Monitoring (I)EMS audit, measurements, non-conformance-corrective-preventive actions

Internal (I) and External (E) information in CEM


Bankers/Financers

Media

NGOs

Trade Unions

Wholesalers

Farmers

Services

Local Authorities

Consumers

Importers

Manufacturers

Retailers

STAKEHOLDERS

STAKEHOLDERS

A simplified Stakeholder information exchange on CEM

Dematerialization, Better Use of Resources, New Business Opportunities

Corporate Environmental Management


Elements of external contribution to content

Interest Group (IG) is: • A collaborative network based on password

access (Extranet) GroupWare: or/and:Interactive Portal (IP)is:• A public web pages based information

remotely managed.Leader:A physical person or institution responsible for managing IGs/IPs at http://ew.eea.eu.int who build web content that complies with EnviroWindows objective, terms and conditions.


LEADER

EEA

What is the basic process to start an IG/IP?

ProposalTerms & conditions

and/or PortalsInterest Groups

World Wide Web links, news, directories,

discussions, networks managed outside the EEA

EditorContributorSecretaryAccess

Collaborative network tools with optional password access

OR


•Growing number of working groups, committees,...

•Geographically spread over Europe

•Traditional paper based working procedure

•Need for more efficiency and transparency

Interest Groups

Problem statement (1/2)


• Information collection disconnected from dissemination.

• Unstructured email repositories.

• Discussions and Decisions linked to ‘physical meetings’.

• Information unnecessarily duplicated in members’ environment.

• Info ‘overload’:Too much, too little, too slow, wrong, duplicate, obsolete, unstructured…

Problem statement (2/2)

Interest Groups


Communicating by email or using an Extranet

Interest Groups


• Advantage:– Speed increase– Savings on printing– Use of Mailing lists

• BUT:– Need to maintain mailing lists (addresses, file format,

…)– Need to maintain archives of ‘Sent items’– No views of the Common Project archive of documents– No history (for newcomers)– Electronic discussion: One-to-one only– No Project-wide info resource and knowledge base

First step to e-communication: Email

Interest Groups


• Uses CIRCA/CIRCLE: a collaborative tool (Extranet)

• Web based environment: User friendliness

• Sophisticated document repository

• Access control: Fully configurable

• Customisation and flexibility

• Management: Decentralised & No need for HTML knowledge

Groupware and communication

Interest Groups


• Information: Mini-Web space

• Library: Document repository

• Directory: Who’s Who

• Newsgroups: Interactive Discussion Fora

• Meeting: Meeting announcement and registration - virtual meetings

The Basics Main Services

Interest Groups


• Information Space

–Mini Web–Hyperlinks: can link to Internal and External pages or sites

• Library

–Metadata: Summary of documents–Download: via HTTP or E-mail–Upload of documents–Notifications (subscribe or download)

The Basics Main Services (Cont.)

Interest Groups


• Meeting Space: Upload/Download of Meeting information

• Directory: Contact information of Members

• Newsgroups: News server functionalities

• And More.

– Mail– Online contextual help– Powerful search engine

The Basics Main Services (Cont.)

Interest Groups


Some Public IGs on EWindows

Interest Groups


Home Page of an Interest Group

NavigationBar

UsefulLinks Interest Groups


Objectives and legislative framework

Document uploading (e.g. IG/IP policy, operations, strategy responsibilities)

For IGs: upload USERS, relevant EVENTS and

NEWSGROUPS

Connecting the IG/IP to members’

homepages and other means to increase

visibility

Building an Interest Group or Interactive Portal

Long termmaintenance

Review and improvement

Launch: broadcast letters, advertising,

conferences

IG/IP managementAuthority


• EnviroWindows on CIRCLE is an internet-based document management tool:

–Powerful–Simple–Flexible

• What’s in it for me ?

–Time savings–Cost savings–Efficiency–Access to more and better information

Communication In Summary

Interest Groups


• tailor web site's presentations to its users;• integrate information in databases;• provide users with searches;• react creatively to visitors;• make every page dynamic.

ZOPE = Z Object Publishing Environment

An Open Source web application server. It enables teams to collaborate in the creation and management web-based business applications such as intranets and portals. Zope allows to:

Interactive Portals


• Content Management: Zope

• Philosophy: Open Source

• Webserver: Apache

• Rapid development: PHP (Hypertext Pre-processor)

• Operating Systems: Linux, Commercial UNIX

• Dataformats: XML

• Database system: MySQL

Interactive Portals

Interactive Portals


• Code Reuse– Harnesses the power of a community of

programmers to help find and repair software bugs, improve software design, and implement enhancements

• Versatility– Other companies can make extensions to Zope

products (or provide 3rd level support)• Market independent

– in the event that the software vendor goes out of business or loses interest in the product

Why Open Source?

Interactive Portals


• Basic authentication dialog box:

Logging in

Interactive Portals


Zope Management interfaceW

orksp

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Navig

ator

Interactive Portals


Adding content

Interactive Portals


Meetings News FAQs

• Zope comes in building blocks called "products"– A building block provides a feature such as a

guest book or announcements or workflow• There are more than 200 products right now

– It's just install and play

What can we do with Zope?

Interactive Portals


•News-clipping: retrieve information from web pages, Usenet articles, text files, FTP sites.

•Experts: information from people who know

•Abstracting:CSA, NUL, ISU, NTIS

•Automatic translations:

•Commercial BDs: Silver Platter, SPINE, DERWENT, CORONA

•Search engines:

•Rapid Content Creation:

Future developments

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