| Sumario: | The Limpopo River Basin Digital Twin Ideation and Co-design Workshop was conducted with the purpose of generating innovative ideas and collaboratively designing a Digital Twin platform tailored to the water resource management needs of the Limpopo Basin, ensuring that the design reflected the diverse user needs and data requirements across the basin.
• Purpose: The workshop aimed to generate innovative ideas and collaboratively design a Digital Twin platform for water resource management in the Limpopo Basin. The workshop engaged 18 stakeholders and water resource specialists representing the Limpopo Watercourse Commission (LIMCOM) and four countries – Mozambique, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa – together with the IWMI project team and GWPSA, to ensure the design reflected user needs and data requirements.
• Context: The workshop took place on May 7th, 2024, in Pretoria, South Africa, following a day of GWPSA led discussions with LIMCOM and the GEF Small Grants Programme (UNDP-GEF) regarding the data needs for managing water resources as part of the development of the Limpopo Management Information System (LIMIS).
• Key Results: Stakeholders reinforced their commitment to adopt the Digital Twin as an additional tool for managing water resources. The workshop allowed the participants to outline the critical data needs, identify new target users for the platform, explore potential use cases for solving existing user needs, and generate innovative ideas for the project. Prioritization of data requirements, management actions, and future developments based on generated ideas were key outcomes.
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