H2.O Platform Launched
Monitoring Services to Inform and Empower
The h2.0 platform was launched on September 8th, 2010, during Stockholm World Water Week. The new, on-line, participatory, multi-level monitoring platform was demonstrated by showcasing some of the striking findings emerging from the innovative monitoring methodologies piloted through the h2.0 Initiative.
As partners in h2.0, the Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Obersevation (ITC) of the University of Twente have joined with 52° N and Twente Institute for Wireless and Mobile Communications (TI-WMC) to address the pertinent need for empowering communities in East Africa to effectively obtain adequate provision of water services and sanitation. The h2.0 Initiative is testing innovations in water and sanitation monitoring and seeking to put in place powerful and effective monitoring systems on a global scale. The vision guiding h2.0 is that access to reliable, specific and well-presented visual information on water and sanitation services can improve sector advocacy and accountability between service providers and consumers. The vision is not only to provide tools which service providers can use to better manage services, but also to create a platform, in the public domain, by which citizens can access meaningful information on WSS service provision and so enter into dialogue with service providers on their improvement.
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