Establishing ASEAN Hydroinformatics and Climate Data Center (AHC)

The workshop is part of an ongoing collaboration among ASEAN countries to develop Science and Technology implementation to support Water Resource Management System in ASEAN. The ideas to establish an "ASEAN Hydroinformatics and Climate Data Center" was the recommendation from the conduct of the:

Science, Technology and Innovation Workshop on ASEAN Water Resource Management System on 24 March 2015

ASEAN Application of Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Resilience Water Management Workshop on 4 April 2016

The proposal to establish the AHC was presented to the ASEAN Committee on Science and Technology (COST) during their 71st meeting held on 26 October 2016. COST noted the multi-disciplinary and cross-cutting nature of the proposed center and suggested that collaboration with relevant stakeholders be explored.

To understand more on the AHC, the workshop on Establishing AHC aims to identify AHC function and role of stakeholders, introduce, promote and create mutual understanding and agreement on establishing AHC among ASEAN member countries, relevant partners and ASEAN sectoral bodies; ASEAN COST, ASEASN Working Group on Water Resource Management under ASEAN Committee on Environment.

As part of this workshop, Dr. Peeranan Towashiraporn, Chief of Party for SERVIR-Mekong in the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) was a keynote speaker on the importance of science and technology implementation for disaster risk management.