Bridging Waters, Bridging Knowledge – Unlocking Regional Water Intelligence Towards Integrated Information And Knowledge Management Systems (IKMS) For Source-to-Sea Cooperation In The SADC Region

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Session Information

Lead Convenor: GWPSA

Co-convenors: INMACOM, CUVEKOM, Kunene PJTC, LIMCOM

Across SADC, countries, River Basin Organisations (RBOs) and partners have invested heavily in developing Decision Support Systems (DSS), Information Management Systems (IMS), Early Warning Systems (EWS), and data repositories – collectively referred to as Information and Knowledge Management Systems (IKMS). These have created a mosaic of valuable but often fragmented "information islands." While many tools sit within the technical remit of the RBOs, their true usefulness depends on how effectively they serve Member States and their institutions in real-world applications such as land use planning, Source-to-Sea application, hazard preparedness, pollution response, and flow regulation.

To maximize benefit, these systems must go beyond ownership by RBOs and Commissions: they need to be applied directly by Member States, with the RBO Secretariats and Commissions supporting their integration and sustainability. A functional, interoperable system should demonstrably reduce negative impacts of floods, droughts, pollution events, and other climate- and human-induced shocks.

The Source-to-Sea dimension is being increasingly recognised as critical: Decisions and data at headwater level cascade downstream, shaping coastal and marine systems. Aligning IKMS across basins therefore enables not only stronger catchment governance, but also supports biodiversity management, conservation in Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs), coastal ecosystem protection, and sustainable finance linked to landscape-wide planning.

This evolving ecosystem of tools presents an opportunity to move from fragmentation to integration: reducing duplication, ensuring usability, and guaranteeing that systems are sustainably maintained, updated, and applied. Strategic governance and technical alignments are essential to enable Member States to actively use these systems for climate resilience, development and sustainable investment, and evidence-based decision-making.

Session Objectives

The session will focus on transitioning from concept to application, ensuring IKMS serve practical planning, governance, and resilience functions. Specifically, participants will:

Articulate the value proposition of a regional IKMS approach for enhancing climate resilience, closing investment gaps, and enabling genuine Source-to-Sea cooperation.
Assess whether existing tools are truly working: Are they reducing the negative impacts of events such as floods, droughts, and pollution? Are they supporting land-use planning and hazard management?
Identify interoperability gaps and technical standards needed to weave basin-specific systems and the existing variety of OpenSource platforms into a cohesive regional knowledge fabric that provide practical support for daily operations.
Define governance and financing mechanisms to ensure sustainability, connecting systems to climate finance pipelines and long-term technical capacity.
Empower emerging RBOs as innovators by drawing lessons from their practical experience in building new, interoperable, and user-driven systems.

Session Outcomes:

Participants will co-create a strategic pathway with clear, Member State-focused priorities for transforming fragmented information islands which are RBO Secretariat and Commissions- focussed, into a regional water knowledge network that:

Establishes a shared technical and strategic vision for a SADC-wide IKMS that supports Member States first, with RBOs as facilitators.
Are widely used on a regular basis by Member States to support from strategic through to operational purposes;
Defines priority action areas for interoperability: common data protocols, shared architectures, and practical capacity-building.
Strengthens application of IKMS to real-world outcomes: disaster preparedness, hazard impact reduction, land-use planning, and Source-to-Sea management.
Provides linkages between basin-level and regional systems, ensuring national needs drive regional strategy.
Drafts a framework for multi-stakeholder partnerships, identifying champions and commitments to operationalise the IKMS agenda.

Session key words:

Information & Knowledge Management Systems, Decision-Support Systems, Early Warning Systems, Interoperability, Source-to-Sea, Practical Data Application, Regional Integration, Member State Ownership, Water Governance, Climate Resilience, Sustainable Systems, Collaboration

Session Chair: CUVKUN GEF Project – Mr Silvanus Uunona Session Rapporteurs – GWPSA – Ms. Aune Amwaama

Session Agenda:

Time	Agenda Item and Description	Responsible
13:45	Opening & Scene Setting: The Imperative for an Integrated Regional Intelligence System Welcome & introductions Session objectives & expected outcomes Framing the vision of a SADC IKMS that delivers real usefulness for Member States and enables Source-to-Sea governance: Focus on "Why are we doing this?"	Dr. Loreen Katiyo
13:55	Keynote Speakers: Shared keynote presentation on: "The Blueprint for an IKMS Landscape across SADC: from fragmentation to cohesion": The architectural vision: interoperable systems, aligned data sharing standards, and governance Overview of IKMS, DSS, EWS, OpenSource information systems and geospatial initiatives in SADC (across water, ecological and ocean resources) Highlight fragmentation and missed opportunities: from Historical Hydrsta Showcase SADC AIP as an operational vehicle (regional data sharing, hosting & processing, capacity building for Member States, embedded resilience metrics) Mainstreaming Source-to-Sea: Are the tools really working to reduce impacts (floods, pollution, droughts), and to support land-use planning and hazard management?	Dr Eddie Riddell & Dr. Pinnie Sithole
14:15	Lightning Talks and Panel discussion: "Building Blocks for the Future" (1,5 hours) – 10 minutes each, plus Panel Q&A CUVECOM: Designing CUVEWIS for interoperability from the outset; aligning with SADC standards INMACOM: Innovating governance structures for embedded Member-State data-sharing (dashboard portal) LIMCOM: Realities of interoperability between databases and platforms; lessons on cloud-based approaches – IWMI: Taking the leap into Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and incorporating Citizen Science FBIS (Freshwater Biodiversity Information System): Harmonizing biodiversity data (freshwater species) for conservation decisions, baseline change detection, and its role in supporting land-use planning and risk (e.g. species loss, habitat disruption Marine Spatial Planning / Coastal Systems (SADC MSP / Oceans & Coastal Information Management): Using MSP, Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Maritime Domain Awareness, etc., to integrate coastal & marine data, support Blue Economy, ecosystem-based adaptation, and hazard mitigation (coastal flooding, sea level rise) Landscape & Coastal Systems (Bioinformatics / TFCAs / Sustainable Finance Links): Including projects/tools that integrate terrestrial, aquatic and marine systems; integrating finance planning tools, conservation corridors, etc.	Panel Members Mr Silvanus Uunona & Ms. Anna Haufiku Ms. Sindy Mthimkhulu Eddie Riddell & LIMCOM Marieangel Garcia Andarcia Hugo Retief ORASECOM SADC GMI

Groundwater information and the SADC Groundwater Information Portal

Panel Q&A:

Focus on technical & practical lessons transferable to a regional "knowledge fabric" – what makes these tools most useful to Member States; what factors enable coastal-integration, biodiversity

inclusion, risk/hazard relevance, etc.

15:45

Summary, follow-up mechanisms and closure (15 mins)

Dr. Loreen Katiyo

16:00

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20251030T1345 20251030T1545 Africa/Johannesburg Bridging Waters, Bridging Knowledge – unlocking regional water intelligence towards Integrated Information and Knowledge Management Systems (IKMS) for Source-to-Sea cooperation in the SADC Region - GWPSA Special Session Lead Convenor: GWPSA Co-convenors: INMACOM, CUVEKOM, Kunene PJTC, LIMCOM Across SADC, countries, River Basin Organisations (RBOs) and partners have invested heavily in developing Decision Support Systems (DSS), Information Management Systems (IMS), Early Warning Systems (EWS), and data repositories – collectively referred to as Information and Knowledge Management Systems (IKMS). These have created a mosaic of valuable but often fragmented "information islands." While many tools sit within the technical remit of the RBOs, their true usefulness depends on how effectively they serve Member States and their institutions in real-world applications such as land use planning, Source-to-Sea application, hazard preparedness, pollution response, and flow regulation. To maximize benefit, these systems must go beyond ownership by RBOs and Commissions: they need to be applied directly by Member States, with the RBO Secretariats and Commissions supporting their integration and sustainability. A functional, interoperable system should demonstrably reduce negative impacts of floods, droughts, pollution events, and other climate- and human-induced shocks. The Source-to-Sea dimension is being increasingly recognised as critical: Decisions and data at headwater level cascade downstream, shaping coastal and marine systems. Aligning IKMS across basins therefore enables not only stronger catchment governance, but also supports biodiversity management, conservation in Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs), coastal ecosystem protection, and sustainable finance lin ... Virtual 4 26th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWPSA Symposium waternet@waternetonline.org

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Dr. Loreen Katiyo

Transboundary Water Governance and Environment Specialist

Global Water Partnership Southern Africa

Dr. Eddie Riddell

Regional Coordinator LIMCOM GEF7-IW

GWPSA & Limpopo Watercourse Commission

Mr. Hugo Retief

Research and Development Manager

Association for Water and Rural Development (AWARD)

Mr. James Manda

M&E Specialist

SADC-GMI

Mr. Lusungu Sichilongo

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iClick Systems & Multimedia Ltd

Mr. Esau Phiri

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iClick Systems & Multimedia Ltd

Mr. Silvanus Uunona

Regional Project Coordinator

Global Water Partnership Southern Africa

Dr. Loreen Katiyo

Transboundary Water Governance and Environment Specialist

Global Water Partnership Southern Africa

Prof. Krasposy Kujinga

Programmes Coordinator

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[07:21:06] Lusungu Sichilongo: um yeah so here is around some of the operational variables that we already have I think that gwp because we are supporting African

[07:21:21] Lusungu Sichilongo: them want to make sure these tools are development checklist Regional and Continental wise resources planning and Investments we have emerging tools and we started to speak with their alignment we have proof of

[07:21:39] Lusungu Sichilongo: a group of the program management information system and we have the funders that are very much interested in creating the sustainability part of these tools for example there's a gold Bank sessions yesterday looking for power AI to create content sustainability

[07:21:40] Lusungu Sichilongo: someone was attended

[07:21:45] Lusungu Sichilongo: and then just to think around coming back to reach out of history and

[07:21:45] Lusungu Sichilongo: in these tools

[07:22:32] Lusungu Sichilongo: only harvesting tools at the audience players to synchronize that sort of system concept we're still full of focusing at that equipment that how do we unlock that like in terms of source of cities so one example is often so many assess publicly open we've got the digital between sorry that the program management information system in an open and we've brought in the digital twin to bring the power AI which is now will allowed to use scenario testing sources too and now the next step is to bring in the biological data how do we use the barbershop to track how our base is only

[07:22:32] Lusungu Sichilongo: lawyers

[07:22:45] Lusungu Sichilongo: okay so just like closer to that what's up afterwards and keeping us into account we need to figure out the government standard operating procedures and fancy around information to us

[07:22:48] Lusungu Sichilongo: have within River based organizations and

[07:22:51] Lusungu Sichilongo: to co-developers and create the digital probabilities with these tools

[07:23:00] Lusungu Sichilongo: obviously we need to prioritize the full design based on our own mandates within a river basically across the region

[07:23:13] Lusungu Sichilongo: and then of course they were just how do we use to leverage the development and create a collective or holistic investment plan for these for these

[07:23:30] Lusungu Sichilongo: um okay so again this is around creating the financial for maintaining so I'm expecting that high cross we also have a range of other monitoring systems it's how do we ensure those remain

[07:23:33] Lusungu Sichilongo: person and aligned to the development of the tools

[07:23:39] Lusungu Sichilongo: they saw that approach within the logger not might not be proposed

[07:23:42] Lusungu Sichilongo: it's frightening from data actually updated sharing is important

[07:23:50] Lusungu Sichilongo: difficult capacity to not only within the water sector we need code generating that capacity that

[07:24:07] Lusungu Sichilongo: environment climates finances the only communities of practice are we just going to do this within ourselves as practitioners why are we going to work with all the universities to help build a broader Community Practice to maintain these things

[07:24:16] Lusungu Sichilongo: I spoke about ads I'm sure you've got into all give us some more detail on that

[07:24:35] Lusungu Sichilongo: um yeah so there's some businesses sums up it's about quarterly this in this session we'll be able to find those one in information how do we develop a regional community of matters to create a harmonized decisions support information management

[07:24:39] Lusungu Sichilongo: and then assimilating these new technologies for taking the

[07:24:41] Lusungu Sichilongo: good step forward

[07:24:46] Lusungu Sichilongo: will stop there and and back to you thank you

[07:25:01] Lusungu Sichilongo: thank you yes I think you really thinking outside of government and more specifically some of the issues that we have in your meeting it's not that we have the reason without systems

[07:25:04] Lusungu Sichilongo: but it's a midpoint of integration

[07:25:39] Lusungu Sichilongo: also how the governance part of the consistency in application so yeah I think that I think we are going to actual discussion so I love me to call upon the budget discussion and perhaps then it was another like a snapshot presentation on the list and also one of our panelists Network on there is so somehow the few equals system that I developed and also those properties that are in some of these systems so let me call panelists member

[07:25:43] Lusungu Sichilongo: so I was starting to put the Eddie

[07:25:50] Lusungu Sichilongo: and then it is actually the original project for data but the project and our core is unhealthy

[07:25:56] Lusungu Sichilongo: these are people is a program manager at a house Commission

[07:25:58] Lusungu Sichilongo: it and then our core we only

[07:26:02] Lusungu Sichilongo: I'll show you guys with any Botswana on

[07:26:10] Lusungu Sichilongo: it's not space

[07:26:12] Lusungu Sichilongo: again

[07:26:17] Lusungu Sichilongo: and not just

[07:26:20] Lusungu Sichilongo: all

[07:26:56] Lusungu Sichilongo: let me see if you are not okay thank you just people now we go into the advertising strategy let me call any of us and our people just to give yourself short when there is least link code Provisions system that is already developed in this panel people she will give us exactly the 11 Promises of the current courses that

[07:27:02] Lusungu Sichilongo: so and then we can now very much into our discussion thank you

[07:27:12] Lusungu Sichilongo: and so yeah the intention was just a series of talks on the current system so I'll start with the latest

[07:27:29] Lusungu Sichilongo: so limits stands for the program management information system and is the tool for the equivalent Workforce Commission it's supposed to be an integrated tool that helps help us as a river based organization advice on the

[07:27:46] Lusungu Sichilongo: the base into advise our ministers once they will management of the system and this particular system was established originally with the support of GI test and other partners around 15 years ago in a big study equipment in Pokemon go

[07:28:14] Lusungu Sichilongo: um so as we started this gym project we have to do a stop taking the performance of the limits and this is actually what it actually look like you know all this when I say all days is about us and this is so if you want me to another program I've got a sense to what we found was that the system has become totally related

[07:28:23] Lusungu Sichilongo: to take these the programming language was obsessed and but it looks like the geospatial information was required

[07:28:31] Lusungu Sichilongo: shape of etc etc and I'm with the translators since you both have able to honestly the data within the

[07:28:33] Lusungu Sichilongo: the entire world that's

[07:28:36] Lusungu Sichilongo: that point we decided now let's reinvest

[07:28:39] Lusungu Sichilongo: rebuild this whole time and part of that decision is also to say

[07:29:31] Lusungu Sichilongo: we want the system on a server we want to Cloud so the original system is actually on the server and on a hard drive and subsequently the server had crashed in the hosting institutions obviously a lot of very expensive Hardware so forth we are member states have read now let's move on to the cloud and so that's what we did and at the same time as rebuilding the limits from the existing on a graph data we were looking at harnessing the mutual delivers so this is the new limits a workplace portal and it's all hosted in the cloud on Microsoft is just seven this is a core architecture of this is forcing International Management Institute

[07:30:49] Lusungu Sichilongo: I'm going to win so this is this is a great opportunity to bring in new Advanced hydraulic hydrological landscape based scenario tools using the power of the SWOT model landscape scenario analysis and Ai and AI channel so we call this is fantastic we have the opportunity to bring an advancement project and product and we wouldn't it is an API as a plugin but at the same time we wanted to create organic infrastructure for the limits so how do we create other tools that have already been invested in over the place so for these are we used to have awarded developments inwards a lot of the USA Economy we also have the existing systems of some of our national institutions by the hydrogen system in South Africa which is a Christian to buy medicines and of course we also have some mobile apps to be developed in the basis as well so the idea is a cool gaming infrastructure

[07:30:52] Lusungu Sichilongo: so that the core remains solid openly but

[07:30:58] Lusungu Sichilongo: so that's it that's a quick

[07:31:03] Lusungu Sichilongo: the limits

[07:31:17] Lusungu Sichilongo: okay thank you for it chance I'm just going to give a bit of a history on how this UV light anyone in information system came into being

[07:31:28] Lusungu Sichilongo: the situation area and that development it's not yet there I won't believe it to share what they were shared it for

[07:31:32] Lusungu Sichilongo: evaluation but the background is that

[07:31:43] Lusungu Sichilongo: last night when you was established it started way back in 2018 but then currently there was no not no data platforms

[07:31:56] Lusungu Sichilongo: aspects collecting their data they are doing their anyone in system that's why there was a need identified to have this system and we are thankful that we had

[07:32:17] Lusungu Sichilongo: that okay you assist one of them is for hiding essay and then the people project we are going to develop this system together so that we will integrate anyone in system from Namibia and Angola is the member states that are sharing with like

[07:32:45] Lusungu Sichilongo: and the current state tax is that as I educated we have support from the external partners and the agencies in the member states we have now established in a technical working group that will work the partners to develop the system and this thing called us are coming from institutions and those that

[07:33:07] Lusungu Sichilongo: so and in terms of engaging the member states is that indicated we want them to be involved from the onset they were already invoked from the development of the concept note and the proposal so that's for them to already take ownership of the

[07:33:33] Lusungu Sichilongo: system because whatever information is going to be going this system it's coming from them and already for them to be able to include it in their planning and their clients so that even the average budget to sustain the system going forward after the partners have evidence the project so basically that's

[07:33:45] Lusungu Sichilongo: that's what I've just indicated that we have also started developing the data sharing guidelines that will now allow member states to have clear

[07:34:44] Lusungu Sichilongo: guidelines is to how to share the data where and what type of data to be shared and it will now allow the person to join we share anyone in information to the stakeholders So currently each member states share their own but then we need an integration of the system so we have a nice even in a decision support system that you like so I'm correct that we have or if we call it looking at what is already

[07:34:49] Lusungu Sichilongo: so that you just so thank you

[07:35:01] Lusungu Sichilongo: yeah

[07:35:14] Lusungu Sichilongo: is I think that it's been here and just before we go into our actual fundamental discussion they just a few announcement here

[07:35:32] Lusungu Sichilongo: this is announcement that if they somehow lost your keys I don't know what type of Peace whether it's a car keys or any sort of room keys please contact engineering Malik yeah he just thanks yeah

[07:35:44] Lusungu Sichilongo: okay what is this list that now we are under discussion our very strategy that presentations of the Epsilon a good story to them

[07:35:49] Lusungu Sichilongo: aligning these systems

[07:35:53] Lusungu Sichilongo: I post all the standard across the region

[07:36:00] Lusungu Sichilongo: and also one of the biggest challenges with often phase is that ability that

[07:36:06] Lusungu Sichilongo: and we also had that many students keep theory that

[07:36:13] Lusungu Sichilongo: an old system that are costly to maintain and has to connect

[07:36:24] Lusungu Sichilongo: us now what are the reason that can be drawn on how to manage this technical information about this country

[07:36:25] Lusungu Sichilongo: I think

[07:36:29] Lusungu Sichilongo: stop and be careful on the issue and

[07:36:30] Lusungu Sichilongo: they did

[07:36:39] Lusungu Sichilongo: that is key so in any design of the system must be aware of your tool and yourself tools with

[07:36:54] Lusungu Sichilongo: I exposed to a little bit of redundancy as they age like that so we have to figure out how much is an ability to develop more Vision potents on your DSS or your management

[07:37:03] Lusungu Sichilongo: um if we speak to a lot of the sort of capacity that our research controls have they are often

[07:37:05] Lusungu Sichilongo: always want to play systems

[07:37:05] Lusungu Sichilongo: think what

[07:37:07] Lusungu Sichilongo: the region is

[07:37:10] Lusungu Sichilongo: well most of the original models

[07:37:12] Lusungu Sichilongo: still have a little bit

[07:37:28] Lusungu Sichilongo: unfortunately this type of utility and perhaps having kept up the faces and being visual having graphic policies and so forth and we're starting to see a transition to both

[07:37:46] Lusungu Sichilongo: International model that just slice one plus which is rapidly interface at good open source development and good after that servicing the United States we've always wanted to see in an open screen and alert and transition so in that

[07:37:53] Lusungu Sichilongo: I need to be coincidence that it is what we're important that

[07:38:00] Lusungu Sichilongo: model system in the diagnosis in

[07:38:00] Lusungu Sichilongo: the region

[07:38:16] Lusungu Sichilongo: I think the other component that we've experienced particularly in an inappropriate is what we see people that is so the limits will Design identical and constantly one person

[07:38:45] Lusungu Sichilongo: ah so that the only person who want to listen to maintain and have any other responsibilities so I think unfortunately now as long we have very different capacity and that's allowing us to develop a business that is the national conferences so this is not a tool that basically in the secretary and trying to Outsource the operation within this two member states and have that technical

[07:38:48] Lusungu Sichilongo: states to carry that organelles

[07:39:02] Lusungu Sichilongo: um I think one other aspect is we need to consider as a region which process and financial dynamism and human costs is the issue of synchronization

[07:39:04] Lusungu Sichilongo: so if you're finding yourself

[07:39:04] Lusungu Sichilongo: even speaks

[07:39:23] Lusungu Sichilongo: important region in these tools it's like create a little bit of a check where we have to catch up and certain areas and that always has been exposed to a financial constraint so a bit of a latency in terms of technical trading capacity to get citizens back up and running so I think that's something we need to we need to consistent Regional

[07:39:55] Lusungu Sichilongo: just think I think that he's still coming back to you so that we can take some of these issues so these are quick move I just work from the optimization and decided for many of you and technically

[07:40:02] Lusungu Sichilongo: ability to own internet of services

[07:40:06] Lusungu Sichilongo: it's

[07:40:21] Lusungu Sichilongo: that this is such a system people so that National students are still maintaining you have access to which are provided

[07:41:09] Lusungu Sichilongo: but okay members from this don't be there when you know we have them involved to ensure that is

[07:41:17] Lusungu Sichilongo: integrated into the national system that I wanted to

[07:41:27] Lusungu Sichilongo: is the governance the time in related area that we established the technical organization

[07:41:49] Lusungu Sichilongo: is also one of the platform that would assist the diversity to be involved because we have a data information for this system to work and the literary also review the progress resistance are being developed because of provide technical input then you

[07:42:04] Lusungu Sichilongo: species that have been made in the systems and I think also one of the things that you have recognized that for the member states to take ownership of this

[07:42:10] Lusungu Sichilongo: daily capacity so when you are not in this systems one has to

[07:42:15] Lusungu Sichilongo: I didn't so now in Google like

[07:43:02] Lusungu Sichilongo: we have these assessment that you will identify the gaps within the university and then you allow us to have a capacity development plan so that this people have been in deep and then by the end of the day they are able to take ownership of this system the only project and investing also the issue of that actually there and I think all we just have to have that approach the government issues capacity and then of course we have to be now taking people what information how are they

[07:43:07] Lusungu Sichilongo: the user-friendly because if it's not you suffering it's developed by the domestic is not

[07:43:08] Lusungu Sichilongo: to

[07:43:36] Lusungu Sichilongo: yes I think this is something I think that is the key takeout message from Mr people response that you stability for those system I think is one of the key that we are so maybe going to really much more equipped discussion so we are moving to Mustafa with it I know one of the military challenges that face is data sharing

[07:43:41] Lusungu Sichilongo: also managing the balance of interesting and trust between the University

[07:43:44] Lusungu Sichilongo: blood even dealing with political data sets

[07:43:50] Lusungu Sichilongo: is what are locations pollution and also that assets on transfer that is closed

[07:43:51] Lusungu Sichilongo: so

[07:43:55] Lusungu Sichilongo: we need to ensure this

[07:44:02] Lusungu Sichilongo: that shape openly in the second collaboration is how to organization

[07:44:07] Lusungu Sichilongo: maintain transparency and Trust in datasets applicants

[07:44:10] Lusungu Sichilongo: takes about you

[07:44:12] Lusungu Sichilongo: and

[07:44:23] Lusungu Sichilongo: the water are completely

[07:44:25] Lusungu Sichilongo: the

[07:44:32] Lusungu Sichilongo: profit so it's an elements that can really are looking for this

[07:44:45] Lusungu Sichilongo: we just need to try and some of you know the politics and over allocated as it is

[07:44:55] Lusungu Sichilongo: the investment in the businesses are because this is your children are undercovered against the need to

[07:45:09] Lusungu Sichilongo: the district but what is the existing client and there's also pretty well so to answer the question facilitator

[07:45:10] Lusungu Sichilongo: coach

[07:45:17] Lusungu Sichilongo: for making this method of the basis of the corporation into the community states which is South Africa

[07:45:18] Lusungu Sichilongo: so

[07:45:20] Lusungu Sichilongo: it

[07:45:26] Lusungu Sichilongo: so they have an increase that we started together

[07:45:35] Lusungu Sichilongo: solution and one of the unique features of the sacraments that is populates specifications in terms of the amount of

[07:45:35] Lusungu Sichilongo: cross

[07:45:42] Lusungu Sichilongo: uh most part of community or whatever

[07:45:44] Lusungu Sichilongo: so that is

[07:45:51] Lusungu Sichilongo: your chance but it's about empty this is the developers to me that I need to

[07:46:08] Lusungu Sichilongo: um so one of the original is that after the first time coming up was actually because that is to look into the design of this platform and I think the first understand that

[07:46:09] Lusungu Sichilongo: below

[07:46:09] Lusungu Sichilongo: just

[07:46:14] Lusungu Sichilongo: which is a slight patient with me

[07:46:17] Lusungu Sichilongo: what did then once

[07:46:24] Lusungu Sichilongo: the data that's going to be shared the you just

[07:46:34] Lusungu Sichilongo: motivation so that the member states actually that the needed to share data that it can be

[07:46:47] Lusungu Sichilongo: yet I want to imagine system reminds of the Botanical sources in short sentences during the indices technology

[07:46:49] Lusungu Sichilongo: the University

[07:46:52] Lusungu Sichilongo: again that

[07:47:02] Lusungu Sichilongo: important so now facilitating we can always goes there's an option for the use of nature

[07:47:09] Lusungu Sichilongo: appointments and just which is something that now can be very good

[07:47:24] Lusungu Sichilongo: beautiful picture of you that they just becomes of so that is how they approach it and that growth of the platform analysis

[07:47:29] Lusungu Sichilongo: you know about going on the news for this data to recovery

[07:47:35] Lusungu Sichilongo: you can see that that's a robot cast

[07:47:46] Lusungu Sichilongo: according to the water department discussion in the observant that the University

[07:47:48] Lusungu Sichilongo: interest

[07:48:03] Lusungu Sichilongo: I hope this is a little bit yes that's a positive and sort of energy because I think they can see that what you asked me to hold basically if it's a

[07:48:30] Lusungu Sichilongo: so I think that sense you can see the group but I don't say that so far on the chat but I only the capital of South Africa so that open they don't actually believe that it does feel good but the other two is DBT to recharge to make access to security and I said there is something that has come up with the establishments

[07:49:14] Lusungu Sichilongo: yes I think they think very much yeah I think it's really it's really behind every system that are developing and eventually I see the region is studying moving towards interfaces that have been accepted in about so it says You must I hope you very much yes it was known that across the meeting from different panels but has come coming up with the different development process it's automatic frame it was of opportunities

[07:49:15] Lusungu Sichilongo: okay

[07:49:16] Lusungu Sichilongo: guys

[07:49:18] Lusungu Sichilongo: romantically align this

[07:49:32] Lusungu Sichilongo: very excited and I watched it and how can we can use it to be for each other relative copy for visibility in a really and also for the communication thanks for watching you

[07:49:46] Lusungu Sichilongo: thanks so much I think it's easy because I think it is a very well to that in this presentation that I'm getting off next week and look at I think especially more recently I think any

[07:50:07] Lusungu Sichilongo: you just section earlier a lot of the elements of helping me with AI stuffed with these becoming a lot easier and a lot of these models are easier to establish but different catchments so we are seeing multiple projects that are in the same really doing this now trying to essentially do very simple things

[07:50:36] Lusungu Sichilongo: time but a baby today when it comes to the purpose of that development and they can be very different you know we find a lot of academic programs that will be developing certain models of testing before so a small scale region and not say at the base level which might be pickable for lymphoma and in some cases you know you have a very

[07:51:51] Lusungu Sichilongo: and it's a superficial but let's say it's using satellite imagery for less for example while the observed data sets that are needed so the ability pieces of each of these different that are useful and as Eddie said I mean essentially if you're going to be aligning these different platforms we need to essentially agree on almost like a capability later like you know which of these different platforms have certain capabilities we would like to draw in to say a limits and he said and then you know really it's all about kind of element it was just mentioned now how important the prices so the local companies have been exceptionally open to us I mean you know we have actually been able to engage with them from and whenever we needed to and how we want to in terms of the digital twin even England and in the fucking was also working with us you know now practically anything from Monty and having that but a teacher obviously engage in these Rivers almost like a stopping in terms of

[07:52:14] Lusungu Sichilongo: everything that you don't need it seems like if the project starts on isolation completes translation and suddenly has a big reveal in terms of rule another decision support system not that I know it and but you know who's actually going to use it or what can be used for

[07:53:04] Lusungu Sichilongo: so yeah so really I mean the key points are you know what is the purpose of these developments we were the targets of audiences and from the River Basin Authority and organizations kind of perspective they really need to do almost like a stop taking I think that's what they did with the limits and you know the real like individual view of every system that existed and in the Limpopo looking at the capabilities is an open source is it not open source I need to find the key features they can actually utilize and But ultimately it comes down to two elements are really like believe this strongly

[07:53:04] Lusungu Sichilongo: all

[07:53:07] Lusungu Sichilongo: but aligning differences

[07:53:11] Lusungu Sichilongo: it has to be able to operate

[07:54:22] Lusungu Sichilongo: and you know it just the amount of effort that goes into trying to bring safe emotional systems on board into this new systems really isn't actually viable so rather you can look at you know agreements between bringing certain elements of the social sustainable system but competing conversions this they always seems to be OC seems to be a bit of a tricky Road and a and recluses this year so I find a lot of a lot of the projects that we do see like as an India organization funded you in a bit of work right so new features that are just being you know kind of used to discover it but a lot of these costs will vary much theoretical you know a lot of uncertainty associated with the results now you can't expect a basically to make decisions on 80 results that don't search and like transparent so what we do find is your systems that are being delivered

[07:54:43] Lusungu Sichilongo: are going to be a lot broader in terms of the functionalities or in a very explorative and in most cases a lot of those features might not be relevant just yet for the basis but they could become pregnant in the future

[07:56:04] Lusungu Sichilongo: a lot of the elements of being you know machine learning for example is one Avenue that I see a lot of like academic programs the little twin works where that kind of stuff can fill in the apps across the basic so you know we've got this proportionate spread of data that's available you know so that we see how you learned information available and I wouldn't say that other countries are hesitant to share that I just think that the Dual transformation is factors hasn't happened they don't have to servers that allow API access to data and these are things that you know both through say London Community Partners all that are working in the basement that have been supportive on we can do the same obviously with clients are projects because that's a big part of us to try and mobilize these data sets but yeah so I mean the city and the systems it really really comes down to to like the purpose and hope it is key so you know basically any program

[07:56:16] Lusungu Sichilongo: about to start in any Basin region you know contact them from you know if you're going to be remaining within the country space work with the Department of physical

[07:56:28] Lusungu Sichilongo: to do that if you go outside of that in your bases are too specifically yeah I think the communication is the critical step for alignments of this session

[07:56:48] Lusungu Sichilongo: yes things about analysis yeah I mean actually from a panelist and from those reading sites the hips and some of these key elements that came out with synthetically jeans governing it was so challenges integrating into originality in ownership of financing

[07:57:18] Lusungu Sichilongo: open up a quick round of discussion questions and please allow our like us to encourage you to focus on three guidance Reflections one one practical barriers are you seeing in making data to reusable for this making so our questions that around that and also how can we move from projects in private and Eastern systems and also when you

[07:57:38] Lusungu Sichilongo: see opportunities for growth basing or source to see cooperation and that could benefit from the integrated information system so let's take out our discussion around those three questions and so I open up

[07:57:53] Lusungu Sichilongo: the floor for questions and for discussions we only have about four minutes to end our session but yes I'll be so leaning to end with extractive minutes so I was speaking to what that Stakes

[07:57:58] Lusungu Sichilongo: I see thank you very much this is quite an interesting and

[07:57:58] Lusungu Sichilongo: of people

[07:58:42] Lusungu Sichilongo: I saw that it will be like everything that exists and my worry and in my heart is that the decentralized Automation and institutions seems to hold a lot of the data the lord of the advanced systems and they have a lot of the things you want to Aspire to do as a transponder resolution how do we celebrate their knowledge or how we scale up whatever is happening in South Africa and also in today's like that so I'd like to hear your own digital

[07:58:43] Lusungu Sichilongo: it

[07:58:44] Lusungu Sichilongo: did you telling us

[07:58:48] Lusungu Sichilongo: and I want us to get there

[07:58:56] Lusungu Sichilongo: now we have to the countries that can feed us data so this affects

[07:58:59] Lusungu Sichilongo: okay so next okay thanks Simon

[07:59:04] Lusungu Sichilongo: if you have a specific question that each finalist is just indicates

[07:59:06] Lusungu Sichilongo: email

[07:59:07] Lusungu Sichilongo: you

[07:59:08] Lusungu Sichilongo: space

[07:59:09] Lusungu Sichilongo: so

[07:59:11] Lusungu Sichilongo: he was speaking about the data

[07:59:15] Lusungu Sichilongo: and you mentioned that one of the ways

[07:59:20] Lusungu Sichilongo: staying in cities to move away from the cloud

[07:59:23] Lusungu Sichilongo: of Corners that some countries say

[07:59:31] Lusungu Sichilongo: people out there on these programs how are you handling this and then I think the second question of course

[07:59:41] Lusungu Sichilongo: in terms of the benefits of the systems how to track them how do you shock please help you find out that

[07:59:43] Lusungu Sichilongo: at the system being used

[07:59:49] Lusungu Sichilongo: brought me like a community so that maybe what is the value of the system

[07:59:50] Lusungu Sichilongo: facing someone

[07:59:52] Lusungu Sichilongo: participated things

[07:59:53] Lusungu Sichilongo: thank you

[07:59:56] Lusungu Sichilongo: you know I like this session and

[07:59:58] Lusungu Sichilongo: is not only data in terms of

[08:00:02] Lusungu Sichilongo: to enhance the knowledge local information

[08:00:02] Lusungu Sichilongo: the

[08:00:08] Lusungu Sichilongo: at least critical to help more formalized relationship with local University herself

[08:00:11] Lusungu Sichilongo: the I'm just interested in how this works of course

[08:00:12] Lusungu Sichilongo: them to

[08:00:18] Lusungu Sichilongo: generation to innovate further you see that they are never because

[08:00:18] Lusungu Sichilongo: okay

[08:00:21] Lusungu Sichilongo: is okay let's talk about you

[08:00:25] Lusungu Sichilongo: oh if you

[08:00:26] Lusungu Sichilongo: investment

[08:00:31] Lusungu Sichilongo: so negatively because they are moving data

[08:00:39] Lusungu Sichilongo: or maybe most of it was a big is

[08:00:52] Lusungu Sichilongo: a motorcycle is do they get the capacity tools to collect the data is much it's another thing that is it because

[08:00:52] Lusungu Sichilongo: adjusted

[08:01:08] Lusungu Sichilongo: things yeah I think if you said that

[08:01:23] Lusungu Sichilongo: one is from the systems and how we scale from the experience in countries to appeals and also already the one is

[08:01:25] Lusungu Sichilongo: individual

[08:01:30] Lusungu Sichilongo: yeah definitely thanks to you

[08:01:37] Lusungu Sichilongo: using the questions so yeah to start with the essay question

[08:01:39] Lusungu Sichilongo: own

[08:01:40] Lusungu Sichilongo: can do

[08:01:44] Lusungu Sichilongo: person in this with

[08:01:44] Lusungu Sichilongo: you don't exist

[08:02:02] Lusungu Sichilongo: one that is an opportunity

[08:02:04] Lusungu Sichilongo: let's say we've got them all

[08:02:06] Lusungu Sichilongo: majority

[08:02:16] Lusungu Sichilongo: at that point through the focus on versus work with the present

[08:02:20] Lusungu Sichilongo: available to some of these are

[08:02:32] Lusungu Sichilongo: really not applicable because they're trying to run away and so on the people development and we've gone and so forth but there's a lot of more reason to use that

[08:02:35] Lusungu Sichilongo: we can assimilate into the

[08:02:42] Lusungu Sichilongo: that's that allows to take a organic approach so

[08:02:43] Lusungu Sichilongo: nothing

[08:02:44] Lusungu Sichilongo: but I think it

[08:02:47] Lusungu Sichilongo: the exposure

[08:02:57] Lusungu Sichilongo: take their defenses in that design process what

[08:03:01] Lusungu Sichilongo: to be exposed to know there's other tools

[08:03:06] Lusungu Sichilongo: time will tell if it was alright let's say that we're moving into that assimilation of those to

[08:03:07] Lusungu Sichilongo: so that's

[08:03:08] Lusungu Sichilongo: easily

[08:03:11] Lusungu Sichilongo: I finally respond to the question on the

[08:03:23] Lusungu Sichilongo: Wellness development tasks and

[08:03:24] Lusungu Sichilongo: yes it's very valid and that was raised when we had on this co-design process but essentially we allowed to look at the

[08:03:26] Lusungu Sichilongo: to Hope by the decisions

[08:03:26] Lusungu Sichilongo: at that point

[08:03:27] Lusungu Sichilongo: was

[08:03:43] Lusungu Sichilongo: our whole system applying here for us and system was honest with my server it was looking online but we most needed this so I think at that point the country's got no going to find out first in the system

[08:03:46] Lusungu Sichilongo: the risk and emotion of the data

[08:03:54] Lusungu Sichilongo: because I didn't files as a key the it's really really actually selecting the service provider that of the best description for the days

[08:03:55] Lusungu Sichilongo: opinion

[08:04:00] Lusungu Sichilongo: people said about them protected and practices but then allowing the administration to be represented in

[08:04:02] Lusungu Sichilongo: evidence secretary

[08:04:03] Lusungu Sichilongo: you

[08:04:03] Lusungu Sichilongo: appreciate

[08:04:04] Lusungu Sichilongo: in

[08:04:05] Lusungu Sichilongo: capacity of agenda

[08:04:06] Lusungu Sichilongo: that one

[08:04:06] Lusungu Sichilongo: lady

[08:04:07] Lusungu Sichilongo: which

[08:04:12] Lusungu Sichilongo: yes telling us what the input yes you might

[08:04:19] Lusungu Sichilongo: and so if you go and it was launched in the question from any funds are what things important

[08:04:37] Lusungu Sichilongo: yeah I agree with you and just so you know it's really big events about the tools in the party but I think it is key to maximize the detective regions with the institutions

[08:04:50] Lusungu Sichilongo: and I think on reflection because you've done that at the start of the same time we need to move relatively angry that stop taking and I think now we're at that point where we've got to

[08:04:51] Lusungu Sichilongo: you guys

[08:05:00] Lusungu Sichilongo: more people in the system you can now expose direction to universities and create academic agreement

[08:05:01] Lusungu Sichilongo: the judges for him

[08:05:39] Lusungu Sichilongo: you know because there's a part of your question was you know how do you know where you live in store and with all the plants Services now you can actually select the company that you can install it so obviously a lot of African independent people don't have like you know an 800 resource with it in the case of uncommon South Africa obviously has AWS based this is really places through that so that you notice what you actually being sort of

[08:05:41] Lusungu Sichilongo: is a true consider I don't like you

[08:05:50] Lusungu Sichilongo: industry of social systems that you can help reduce you should

[08:05:58] Lusungu Sichilongo: some of the decision and so it was just we find that you get a little bits

[08:06:03] Lusungu Sichilongo: which means it's collectible that same

[08:06:05] Lusungu Sichilongo: digital

[08:06:08] Lusungu Sichilongo: example

[08:06:11] Lusungu Sichilongo: Shades and

[08:06:13] Lusungu Sichilongo: in

[08:06:22] Lusungu Sichilongo: we just

[08:06:29] Lusungu Sichilongo: students which is my website

[08:06:36] Lusungu Sichilongo: it's a bit of consider type of money to say sometimes it's just the absence of the capacity

[08:06:54] Lusungu Sichilongo: Ace but also seeing sessions in when he was commissioned associated with the opportunity that's it

[08:07:12] Lusungu Sichilongo: special just how we're doing technology so just consolidation

[08:07:56] Lusungu Sichilongo: so again we have more games today and that's the I wanted to do this across organization but I want to join in here everyone is just they need to see the purpose of each of them being in licenses with us in the same basic

[08:07:57] Lusungu Sichilongo: said

[08:08:07] Lusungu Sichilongo: so this year that

[08:08:22] Lusungu Sichilongo: this video actually so much remember things that you have but it's a couple of issues that this is thank you if you want to have tenses people in

[08:08:26] Lusungu Sichilongo: to automatically

[08:08:29] Lusungu Sichilongo: honestly happen

[08:08:30] Lusungu Sichilongo: and I think

[08:08:46] Lusungu Sichilongo: which is intending because already he was seen in our community so that application for sure in the next years we see a lot more diabetes can touch everything because

[08:08:57] Lusungu Sichilongo: use

[08:09:12] Lusungu Sichilongo: just saying myself with a soul and what it is to do it

[08:10:09] Lusungu Sichilongo: if I do and you know what data would like straight away but there's never a bunch I think it is just infrastructure around you know and that now changing rapidly I means South Africa's the only place it hasn't got started everybody else is getting connected and Studio start seeing what we start connecting stocks and that's going to be the next big change and you can probably see the methods in so you actually see in the corner and was me and I think there's going to be sequel stuff coming new kind of connected so interacting it's a tricky one right because it's easy to build into you know for example on the side of the API and

[08:10:31] Lusungu Sichilongo: I can see multiple that I first of all from the IPS we have different situations if you are in alternative and it's called the public banking is generally understand where your houses the continuously we get then we take the you know kind of functions that any negative effects and

[08:10:45] Lusungu Sichilongo: that you get all you know the hydrology position for this period but again you have to be always free to financially in terms of wasn't shared which I can further because it's another thing you know

[08:10:48] Lusungu Sichilongo: tracking it with is

[08:10:55] Lusungu Sichilongo: it's checking that you saw that one that's very close and

[08:11:00] Lusungu Sichilongo: I think the whole marketing Journey all these projects

[08:11:04] Lusungu Sichilongo: Investments and

[08:11:14] Lusungu Sichilongo: organically and you know what's it called measurable elements with you resistance

[08:11:35] Lusungu Sichilongo: yes I think that I think it's a few I think but we're not going to be a floor that's not a very special in minutes as such as our initiative thanks for watching

[08:12:11] Lusungu Sichilongo: thank you personally make them and I just want to get in terms of vulnerabilities of assistance I feel for the local community because they will be able to see a use and the benefits of it once they are and once you are not feeling the way it was about then we have directly practice

[08:12:24] Lusungu Sichilongo: yeah and I think one of my house when I went to say when this distance are being developed I would never

[08:12:43] Lusungu Sichilongo: different communities so you make sure that every Independence Day if they are trading materials should believe when we are taking my phone and investing

[08:12:47] Lusungu Sichilongo: being this I want to

[08:13:16] Lusungu Sichilongo: and things thankfully and things everybody we hear and it's only because it's not always it's a wish we could have stayed here and in many more and I'll come up with our roadmap in case of this information system so I think in a conclusion the business of systems

[08:13:22] Lusungu Sichilongo: but I think the issue here it's about linking in a

[08:13:32] Lusungu Sichilongo: so that he's not integration that we are talking about in days that user DHT that we actually talking about so and also

[08:13:44] Lusungu Sichilongo: finances and it's only when you understand I think I am called an artist because maybe not as a why do I have to pay for

[08:14:11] Lusungu Sichilongo: was simply one practice in my some of these things are you see integration it's really an interesting one so in that we need to take it into consideration when I did everything was 16 so the system will look into the whole system

[08:14:29] Lusungu Sichilongo: only part of its not only part of the company but in if you look at the river system in totality as one unit so I think from source to Sea I think that is one of the key elements

[08:14:56] Lusungu Sichilongo: so and also I think about it because practice in the hips in the I think that it's also the metaphor of collaborations academic institution to continue supporting the member states I mean it's their member states the idea can be so we should come up with this Partnerships and for continuity and supporting the countries so it was really

[08:14:57] Lusungu Sichilongo: going to add some

[08:15:00] Lusungu Sichilongo: one please please

[08:15:06] Lusungu Sichilongo: 121 police again we're talking systems

[08:15:12] Lusungu Sichilongo: know what's expected we are not actually expect at all

[08:15:43] Lusungu Sichilongo: we need the people who know how to do this fancy things to understand our language how do we integrate and I feel the youth that we want to mainstream and they maybe that's where we should be coming in get those it groups to understand the water level so that they do this thing in our own language to serve us

[08:15:52] Lusungu Sichilongo: you will never be able to do it ourselves if you know we know what you want to see things

[08:16:04] Lusungu Sichilongo: thank you very much this I think that's a bad point that comes also with our own people you see the way our comfortable are doing we understand that

[08:16:15] Lusungu Sichilongo: or investors that they are working so that should be done and essentially when they come to philosophy systems that so the language should be aligned

[08:16:24] Lusungu Sichilongo: when they started from people and some people they give a little bit communication but when they found himself in a certain

[08:16:44] Lusungu Sichilongo: environment with a report so they put in that language so you find them working in those big fight numbers you'll find that we have them in our videos they speak the Ampere language so I think that should be done actually with the experience

[08:16:50] Lusungu Sichilongo: so I think very much I think that's a key point for anything to take our message

[08:16:53] Lusungu Sichilongo: so excited to talk almost corner

[08:17:03] Lusungu Sichilongo: of it all out of these are getting assigned so that include the system calls and let me think a panelist

[08:17:29] Lusungu Sichilongo: that this thing the gave us and also the inside and discussion there is a bus it goes to everything you all for your answering discussed into this so our repertoire is recording and we are not only adding here we'll continue because actually we have basically because any next engagement not only what that they will be other engagements

[08:17:35] Lusungu Sichilongo: so let's see the songs individually we reach to our intent objectives in terms of the systems thank you very much and

[08:17:36] Lusungu Sichilongo: expectations

[08:17:36] Lusungu Sichilongo: yeah

[08:17:51] Lusungu Sichilongo: so I just I had I been in business that they will be officially cutting it

[08:18:06] Lusungu Sichilongo: continue discussing but here

[08:18:13] Lusungu Sichilongo: he

[08:18:15] Lusungu Sichilongo: thing

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