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28 Dec · Wed 2011
Growing Presence in China
On November 4th & 5th, 2011, in Beijing China, the Global Forest Information Service Chinese Workshop was held in conjunction with an IUFRO SPDC Workshop. (Participants of both workshops pictured below)
The workshop's goal was to introduce those in attendance to the Global Forest Information Service and how to use the website to access a wide range of forest information as well as to attract a greater amount of forest-related information from Chinese institutions.
During the two-day workshop attendees witnessed several presentations which provided information on online information management, information sharing and syndication and what it meant to be an information provider in Asia. User's participated in many different exercises aimed to enhance their understanding of the workshop concepts, these included an exercise where users set up their own RSS feed readers and found and subscribed to different RSS feeds around the internet, and having users use RSS generating software to create their own RSS feeds from their own organizations information which was then added to the GFIS system.
At the conclusion of the workshop, attendees were presented with a certificate of completion.
Ma Wenjun from the Chinese Academy of Forestry receives a completion certificate from instructors Michael Huck (GFIS Communication's Officer) and Ho Sang Kang (GFIS Russia - Asia Regional Coordinator)
Group Photo of the GFIS Chinese Workshop
Following the conclusion of the workshop, a number of the attendees were successfully able to incorporate RSS Feeds into their organizations while a number are still actively pursuing to contribute a greater amount of information to GFIS.
GFIS was also present at the Asia Pacific Forestry Week and met with a large number of organizations introducing them to the GFIS system - growing the presence of the Global Forest Information Service to the Asia region. Following the conclusion of the workshop and the APFW, GFIS saw a spike in statistics and a growing number of hits from China!
Pictured above is the shared IUFRO / GFIS booth, bustling with activity.
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