2. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka The EC CHM Portal ToolKit (PTK), a tool to improve the participation in the CHM on national and international level by: Han de Koeijer and Arnaud Réveillon; Belgium national focal point to the CBD and the CHM, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, 29 Rue Vautier, 1000 Brussels, Belgium

3. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Content of the presentation European Community Clearing-House Mechanism Prerequisits for the development of the EC CHM Development of PTK version 1 Development of PTK version 2 Tool partner countries of the Be-CHM Advantages PTK according to the partner countries Conclusions

4. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka European Community Clearing-House Mechanism European Union : Contracting Party of the CBD European Environmental Agency : fp CHM Partners : European countries Biodiversity Topic Centre ECN EIONET NGOs and other international organisations

5. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Prerequisits for the development of the EC CHM Open source Via Internet Easy to use Several users at the same time Different roles Dynamic pages with meta-information

6. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Development of the PTK version 1 Call made in 1999: Contract with Finsiel Open source  Zope Zope = Zope open programming environment (http://www.zope.org) Web application server using the Python language Database with trans-actional pages: Content, data, dynamic HTML objects, scripts, search engine, connection and codes with relational databases

7. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Development of the PTK version 1 Implication of several countries with actif CHM Annual meetings Exchange of experiences Expectations Prerequisites 2003 Use by the EC CHM Adding functionalities  PTK version 1 2005 Users = Germany, Denmark and Estonia

8. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Développement du PTK version 2 Recomendations from the EC CHM meetings Multi-languality Possibility to change the PTK according to tastes Hosting of national european CHMs on the ECCHM server Result : Project to improve the PTK financed by the EU 2004-2005

9. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Development of the PTK version 2 Task force : ECCHM, Finsiel, Germany, Belgium, Danmark Improvements based on : Recommandations by the countries AAA compliant (http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI- WEBCONTENT/) Based on XHTML transitional Use of CSS Interoperabilitéy between sites by rss Link checker Discussion forum, notifications and dispository of documents (optional)

10. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Development of the PTK version 2 Launching of version 2 December 2005, Talinn, Estonia EU countries using the PTK : Germany, Belgium, Danmark, Estonia, France, Roumania, Switzerland Only Belgium is not hosting it’s site on the EC CHM IT section uses Zope for belgium sites Hosting of partner countries Other users: Guatemala, RAC/SPA, others

11. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Updating of the PTK Since 2005: On a demand base from the EU participating countries Belgium and partner countries most actif Biggest changes: Graphics and Public Photos archives Thesaurus update for 2008 Administration section interface Mapping Tool Databases linkage

12. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Tool for partner countries of the Be-CHM Recommendations by partners countries made during trainings and workshops Facilitate the update of pages Implications by other actors in the national CHM Capacity building in new technologies Feeling of national ownership of the site PTK replies to those recommendations !

13. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Tool for partner countries of the Be-CHM PTK replies to those recommendations ! Multi-users with different roles New technology Virtual hosting (URL could be http://**.chm- cbd.net) Instantaneous updating after approval

14. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Tool for partner countries of the Be-CHM Training on the PTK 2006 : Burkina Faso, Regional training (Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire et Niger) Training in Belgium (Burundi, COMIFAC, Ethiopia, Morocco,RD Congo, R. Centrafricaine, Togo, Tunisie and Zambia)

15. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Tool for partner countries of the Be-CHM 2007 : Regional training, Morocco (Algeria, Morocco and Tunesia) In Belgium (Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comifac, Côte d’Ivoire, DR Congo, Mali and Rwanda) National training (Central African Republic, Ghana and Togo) 2008 National training Zambia Regional Training CAR/ASP

16. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Advantages PTK according to partner countries Everybody can add data, not necesary to be IT person Pages can be added without being visible straight away for the public Discussion groupes possible No costs included Update of the tool guaranteed in the future by the EU

17. Zambia national CHM training, 11 January 2008, Lusaka Thanks for your attention