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UNEP/GRID-Arendal Annual Report 2000
11 BOING (Baltic On-Line Interactive Geographical and En-
vironmental Information Service)
The BOING project is a two-year project financed through the
EU-INFO2000 programme. The aim is a to create a compre-
hensive information service on eutrophication in the Baltic Sea,
together with our partners, the Stockholm University's Depart-
ment of Systems Ecology and the Finnish Institue of Marine
Research. The web-based service will feature indicator-based
presentations, an encyclopaedia, a glossary and interactive servi-
ces as well as data. A significant part of the project is devoted to
conducting user consultations and workshops.
Baltic Environmental Atlas
Since the original GRID-Arendal Baltic GIS repository opened
in 1995, the environmental datasets have been available for
downloads and as map graphics. In September 2000, the Baltic
Environmental Atlas was launched. This interactive map makes
it possible to browse and explore these datasets, and also to easi-
ly compare and relate them. The map service has been devel-
oped within the BOING project to be publicly launched in the
summer of 2001.
The Baltic Drainage Basin GIS, Maps and Statistics web site
was nominated finalist in the Environment Category of the
Stockholm Challenge Award, June 2000.
EASTERN
EUROPE
planned
Poland
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Hungary
Slovenia
Romania
Bulgaria
Croatia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Yugoslavia
FYR Macedonia
Albania
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Belarus
Russia
Ukraine
Moldova
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Georgia
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
CENTRAL
EASTERN
EUROPE
1. participation
2. training, electronic
SoE reporting
3. GRID node,
sustainable capacity
in place
1
SOUTH
EASTERN
EUROPE
2 3
BALTIC
STATES
SOUTHERN CAUCASUS
CENTRAL
ASIA
completed
partially achieved
status countries
Progress in building capacities for managing
and reporting environmental information in
Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly
Independent States