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Workshop at Hai Phong on November 18

Operation and information of a dam during flood is the big issue in Vietnam now. Therefore, the system for dam watching by using the internet is under construction. This system will be constructed by the lead of MARD (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) with the cooperation of the cell phone company Viettle. The workshop to introduce and train the prototype system was held five times all over Vietnam. The JICA expert attended this training as the lecturer.

The JICA expert explained dam observation and sharing system in Japan and the dam / hydrological observation system proposed in the project. Further, the expert explained the example of the 3 dam tie-up operation to reduce floods in Japan. This operation was conducted by Japan Water Agency Kidu river dam operation office and awarded by the Japanese society of Civil Enginnering in 2009.

The display of the dam situation in the Vietnamese system is similar to the Japanese one which was introduced by the JICA expert. It is a good example of technical transfer.

Top page of dam watching system

Mr.Phuoc, director of the disaster management center MARD said that Vietnam must introduce leading edge technologies but developing of the human resource is also importannt. They have a plan tol continue such training continuously.

JICA technical cooperation aims at technical transfer and growing human resources. It is expected that the JICA project will contributet to human resources development in Vietnam.