The Bioamazon Project newsletter, edition no. 3, May 2020, contains an article on mapping of the information management processes on biological diversity in the Research Institute of the Peruvian Amazon (IIAP).
Written by engineer Herón Andrés Meza, the article details how the Information System on Biological and Environmental Diversity of the Peruvian Amazon (SIAMAZONÍA) is organized, working as a decentralized and organized network of entities and specialists that generate or manage relevant information about biodiversity in the country.
SIAMAZONIA currently consists of: Species Bank, Specimen Bank, Publications Bank, Multimedia Resource Bank and Amazon Map Bank. With support from the Bioamazon Project a mapping of SIAMAZONIA processes was conducted using the Business Process Management (BPM) methodology as a starting point for the improvement of the platform.
This work also proposes a component to highlight the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) information, which will allow not only to identify the CITES species of the Peruvian Amazon and the appendix to which it belongs, but also to index, geo-reference, relate and categorize other content with CITES.
Coordinated by the Organization of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty (OTCA) with financial support from the KfW, the Bioamazon Project has as one of its lines of action promote the strengthening and interoperability of national information and knowledge management systems. The main objective is to contribute to the conservation of the Amazon Biodiversity and the species especially included in CITES, by increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the management, monitoring and control of species of wild fauna and flora, threatened by trade in ACTO Member Countries – Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
Based on the results of this work developed by the IIAP, the Bioamazon Project is now contracting the development of the new SIAMAZONIA platform.
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