Improvement of the Steering Competence in the Water Sector

Various software systems, databases and applications are applied within the Ministry of Water and Irrigation (MWI) to manage the country’s water sector. Some of these software systems were developed in-house, without consideration of well-established and widely accepted software standards and procedures.

Currently a multitude of point-to-point connections exist between the different services: All of them use individual protocols and data structures, and often manual action is required to access the data. Updating or improving these individual applications is cumbersome due to their interconnection with other applications. The MWI’s “Water Information System” (WIS) is such an in-house development. It offers a methodological framework, databases and tools to manage relevant water sector information and provides water specialists in the Ministry, the Water Authority of Jordan (WAJ) and the Jordan Valley Authority (JVA) and others with reliable data.

Project number	n/a
Subject(s)	AGRICULTURE , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , TOOL TERMS , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY
Geographical coverage	Jordan, Germany
Budget (in €)	278000
Programme	GTZ
Web site	http://www.aht-group.com/index.php?id=433
Objectives	Also with a view to a future integration into the superior Executive Information System, the MWI intends to transfer the currently existing applications into Java EE based multi-level (“n-tier”) web applications using the main principles of software engineering. This also involves a review of the entire IT infrastructure and software architecture. A “Service-Oriented Architecture” (SOA) shall ensure a robust and flexible core architecture that will help solving current shortcomings and meeting future challenges. Review and assess existing hardware and software infrastructure in MWI and formulate future requirements Develop and adapt concept for central database and GIS Set-up new software development and testing environment Improve existing Water Information System (WIS) Definition of technology standards and software development guidelines Introduce the Java EE software application platform for WIS Introduce business process optimization tools to the WIS unit Design of quality assurance procedures Develop and implement training concept for software developers in MWI.
Period	[01/01/2008 - 31/12/2011]

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