CASPINFO is aiming at improving of cooperation between marine scientists, oil & gas industry and governments in the Caspian Sea region through: · Initiation and establishment of a co-operative Caspian Sea, trans-national partnership (Data & Information Network consisting of representatives of marine environmental data & information centres/services, governmental stakeholders, oil & gas industries and commercial oriented data brokerages), that will strengthen the quality, service and overall performance of marine environmental and industrial data & information management, both on regional, national and international level. · Development and establishment of an Internet based Caspian Data & Information Service to improve the implementation of integrated (environmental, industrial and administrative) management information, and to provide a tool for effective exchange of information, accessibility of data & and information, and communication · Development of marketing and business opportunities and strategies for commercial industrial and environmental data for sustainable exploitation of these partly commercial and partly non-commercial data: the extra challenge of the project is to deal with a mix of commercial and non commercial data. CASPINFO will result in: · Improved and sustainable data & information exchange between (public and private) environmental, industrial and governmental stakeholders within the Caspian Sea region · Direct involvement of the main data and information stakeholders. |