Talk:HECTF-China Workshop Agenda

NOTE from EDITOR - Please feel free to comment on the Agenda
Please comment on how we can improve the agenda to accompish our goals within the limited time 10:33, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

agenda/document
It does not look like too many people are using WIKI - we need to think whether this discussion should be moved to more 'traditional' e-mail!!

HEC is a very complex subject and we obviously cannot address all the causes/issues/ramifications in a 2 day workshop. Since the sole idea in the workshop is to have a document that will enable practitioners to address HEC I think we need to keep things very simple if we are to get anywhere. I would suggest the agenda and the document be structured as follows:

Assess specific situation List data needed – identify ideal & minimum requirements For each type of data – data collection and analysis, required resources, time frame Select method & implement List methods For each method: Description of basic method, variations, situations suitable for application, required resources, possible negative and positive effects on HEC, people and elephants

Monitor & adapt/continue/discontinue List parameters that need to be monitored - identify ideal & minimum requirements For each parameter - data collection and analysis, required resources, time frame

This way we would have sufficient time to discuss what is relevant and it could produce a document that someone may even be able to use!!

Pruthu

Is WIKI and online collaborative technology the way to move forward?
Yes ... using online collaborative technology may not be the way forward. The lack of use could be due to a learning curve and the need to invest time in getting familiar with a new system. On the other hand it maybe lack of interest...in which cae even circulating a word doc may not be the way forward but one of the key discussion points needs to be how we can all effectively collaborate in the future. Setting the method of doing this will be an important achievement.

16:38, 4 July 2009 (UTC)