On the 14th of March MONRE received the hard- und software to run the WISDOM Information System within their institute. The handover was accompanied with a two day workshop. The first day provided an update on new functionalities for users and administrators. The second day gave a roadmap to MONRE on technical and institutional steps, which are necessary operationalize the Information System. The workshop was concluded by the handover of the Server, including the preinstalled Information System as well as the extensive technical documentation.

The Mekong Environmental Symposium 2013 in Ho Chi Minh City was a full success.

On the first day of the symposium over 400 stakeholder, decisions maker, scientists, and other Mekong experts joined the event. Three Vietnamese Vice Ministers (MOST, MONRE, MARD), as well as vice ministers of environment and high ranking delegates of the other Mekong riparian countries as well as the CEO of the Mekong River Commission joined the event.

The 4th Mekong Tour had been accomplished by the 27th of July 2012. The capacity building team with active support from DLR visited 4 provinces (Tra Vinh, Bac Lieu, Ca Mau and Can Tho). Subject of the Workshops were the life cylce of the WISDOM Information System as a platform for storing, visualizing and sharing geographical data.

WISDOM Project Coordinator Dr. Claudia Kuenzer and WISDOM local CIM expert Florian Moder on 12th of July 2012 were received by the Vice Minister of Vietnam's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, MONRE, and discussed the pathway ahead for the implementation of the Mekong Delta Information System.

The Springer book „The Mekong Delta System – Interdisciplinary Analyses of a River Delta” editored by F. Renaud and C. Kuenzer is now published. The book contains  17 chapters, most of which present results of the WISDOM project. The book is available via Springer and can also be purchased via amazon.

Another Workshop Tour through the Mekong Delta has been accomplished last week (Dong Thap, An Giang, Ca Mau and Kien Giang). Subject of these workshops were advanced topics such as spatial data infrastructure principles and applying the WISDOM Information System as a data distribution tool in combination with an open source desktop GIS such as Quantum GIS to process geographic data derived through the WISDOM IS. All in all about 80 participants from DONRE, DART and DOST took part in the four workshops and were granted access to the WISDOM Information System.

On 21-23 February 2012 the 5^th WISDOM PhD Scientific Seminar took place in Can Tho City, jointly organized by UNU-EHS and Can Tho University. The seminar allowed the PhD students of WISDOM’s second project phase to present their fieldwork progress and to discuss preliminary results with their fellow PhD candidates as well as with other WISDOM scientists and selected external experts.

SIWRR coordinated in close cooperation with the German WISDOM Partners a workshop on the WISDOM Information System in Can Tho on the 10th of January 2012. About 35 directors of the DONREs, DARDs and DOSTs of the 13 Mekong Delta Provinces were invited and participated. Purpose of this workshop was to review current functionalities, data content and performance of the WISDOM Information System and to discuss required priorities for the further technical development in order in increase the attractiveness of the Information System for daily routine usage in the provinces.