SIAT-AC
SIAT-AC
About SIAT-AC
The SIAT-AC is a process, in which a set of actors (institutions) establish agreements, with common objectives around the management of environmental information in the Colombian Amazon (agreements: conceptual, organizational, technical (data infrastructure, methodologies, protocols), and technological (information networks, telecommunications, access), organized as a network of people and entities, to support decision makers in regional processes to achieve sustainable development with data and information products.
It is equally valid to define the SIAT-AC as the Environmental Information System of Colombia SIAC, developed in the regional scope of the Colombian Amazon.
Detailed information on the SIAT-AC process can be found in the following links:
SIAT-AC conceptual model
Conceptual and methodological guidelines of the Amazon Environmental Indicators System within the framework of the Regional Environmental Monitoring Program
Design of the baseline of environmental information on natural resources and the environment in the Colombian Amazon: conceptual and methodological bases
Values
CONSOLIDATION
SIAT-AC Network
- It facilitates the development of coordinated actions.
- Guarantees the availability of data and information.
- It promotes visibility and access to data and information in a fast and updated way.
- It helps to visualize knowledge about local uses and knowledge.
- Facilitates evaluation and decision making.
- It expands the knowledge regarding the events that occur in the region.
- It promotes self-management of the territory based on local and regional development.
Actors and Values
SIAT-AC actors are classified as involved, interested and general public (Based on the "Inter-institutional management strategy for the implementation of the Biodiversity Information System, Alexander von Humboldt Institute. Bogotá. Franco, X. & J. C. Bello. 2004 ), taking into account their roles and responsibilities in the processes of generation, analysis and use of data and environmental information and their role as part of the National Environmental System SINA in the Colombian Amazon region.
The actors involved are the participants who have the responsibility to generate, manage and use environmental data and information at the regional level or who participate directly in the creation and coordination of the Territorial Environmental Information System for the Colombian Amazon SIAT-AC or its established subsystems.
Those involved in SIAT-AC include the Sinchi Amazonian Institute of Scientific Research, the region's sustainable development corporations (CDA, Corpoamazonia, Cormacarena) and the Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development-MAVDT. The entities invited to the conformation and coordination of the SIAT for the Colombian Amazon are the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute IAVH, the "Agustín Codazzi" Geographic Institute IGAC, the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies IDEAM, the Unit Special Administrative Unit of the System of National Natural Parks UAESPNN and the Academy as knowledge generators.
The interested parties are direct users of the data and environmental information generated in the region, they do not have the responsibility to generate or manage said information and are not responsible for the conformation of the Territorial Environmental Information System for the Colombian Amazon SIAT-AC or its subsystems established.
This group includes Governors, Mayors, Universities and research groups, Non-Governmental Organizations, as well as Social and Grassroots Organizations.
People who do not have a specific interest in environmental data and information, but who can make use of the information products that are generated; These people are not looking to access information resources, but they could take advantage of them if they reached their environment.