Integrated Knowledge System on Climate Change Adaptation Conceptual

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Integrated Knowledge System on Climate Change
AdaptationConceptual Technological Framework

• OneWorld South Asia
• December 2008

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Rational Context

• Climate justice is an integral human development
  challenge, given that it is the poor and the
  marginalised who are the most affected
• Climate change is real and there is an urgent
  need for adapting to current and projected
  consequences of climate change
• This urgency is magnified in the context of
  vulnerable communities, who have lesser abilities
  to cope with the consequence of climate change
• New technologies and a collective pool of ICT
  facilitated knowledge can support adaptation and
  mitigation efforts that address both development
  and climate change challenges
• Integrated Knowledge System on Climate Change
  Adaptation (IKS-CCA) seeks to address this by
  enabling knowledge support services
• To collate and/or refer to the wealth of
  community level knowledge resources in terms of
  climate change adaptation experiences and
  potentially replicable good practices
• In Text, Images, Audio and Video
• Supplement these with available knowledge on
  adaptation strategies and new technologies
• Enable their easy and open access across multiple
  delivery mechanisms web, fixed line telephony,
  mobile, SMS, radio or an innovative mix of
  these channels
• Being developed for South Asian context, but can
  be replicated/scaled up for Global South

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Goals Deliverables

• The IKS-CCA is to serve as a knowledge resource
  base and knowledge service on climate change
  issues with special attention to the adaptive
  needs of grassroots communities.
• IKS-CCA would
• provide contextual knowledge on the basis of
  geography, language and local concerns for local
  and grassroots needs
• drawn from community sources and adapted from
  existing knowledge resources
• enable a platform for stakeholder engagement,
  knowledge-based advocacy and campaigns to further
  climate justice efforts and initiatives from the
  South.

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Salient Features

• The proposed System
• focuses on the adaptive needs of the developing
  world, of poor and marginalised groups and
  grassroots communities
• includes information and knowledge from a range
  of sources in a variety of formats
• uses a combination of technological tools and
  media to facilitate collation and dissemination
• IKS-CCA can be unpacked in terms of 3 (three)
  interlinked aspects
• Digital content of contextual knowledge on
  climate change adaptation
• Multi-stakeholder and multi-dimensional knowledge
  partnerships and
• Technology solutions and services for knowledge
  acquisition and delivery

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IKS-CCA Content

• Locally usable content derived from the growing
  body of knowledge on climate change and related
  concerns,
• emanating from the global initiatives on climate
  change research, collaboration and dialogue and
• debates, discussions and advocacy on issues of
  climate change adaptation at the regional and
  national levels
• Documentation of experiential learning in terms
  of adaptation strategies at the localised level
  facilitated and strengthened by knowledge
  partners of IKS-CCA
• Appropriation of emerging media tools and Web 2.0
  technologies to facilitate content acquisition
  and delivery in the form of text, audio, image
  and video

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IKS-CCA Knowledge Partnership

• Knowledge partnerships with agencies and
  organisations that are leaders in their
  geographical or thematic areas
• Community-oriented or community-based
  organisations and networks for collation of
  grassroots content and solutions
• Linking with the growing global community and
  dialogues
• to draw upon the available body of knowledge on
  climate change and on adaptation and
• in turn share knowledge in terms of people's
  perspectives and grassroots solutions
• Appropriation of technologies to support
  collaborative knowledge partnerships

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Integrated Web2.0 Approach
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Audio as Key Knowledge Exchange Medium

• Voice is an easier mode of commutation and
  information sharing for grassroots communities
• Access deficit of mobile phone and community
  radio are much less than that of computers with
  Internet

IKS CCA
Experts/ Knowledge Contributer
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IKS-CCA Taxonomy

• Core of the IKS-CCA deployment
• Carries a humane rather than an environment
  oriented vocabulary

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Mobile Integration to Web
Content Acquisition/ delivery through SMS / MMS
IKS - CCA
LEGEND
User
Knowledge Contributor
Expert
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Capability Attribution Issues

• Capacity of grassroots communities to leverage
  the New Media and Web 2.0 tools innovatively
• Space for Civil Society action?
• Capacity to create/aggregate/share locally
  relevant digital content in local language
• Ensuring community owned decision on locally
  relevant knowledge
• Who decides how?
• Is there adequate capacity within community to
  make judicious decisions?
• Capacity to appropriate traditional and emerging
  technologies with the Web
• Not enough capacity within the next billion
• How to develop that capacity longitudinal vs
  one-off approach

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