Dr. Ralph ELSAESSER

Freelancing consultant

ProEcon 3 : Introducing ICT tools to enhance the competitiveness of contract farming in Mozambique. • Dissemination of knowledge on ICT tools for contract farming in Mozambique. • Identification and specification of useful ICT solutions for selected value chains. • Assistance to ProEcon partner firms during implementation of selected ICT solutions. • Building local ICT capacities: Assisting local ICT companies in the development of innovative ICT solutions for the agricultural market.

Desk study: ICT & Livestock management • Investigating ICT systems for optimizing livestock management; • Market analysis of innovative ICT solutions.

Precision farming • Automating agricultural machinery through ISOBUS standard. • Based on satellite-NVDI images, application plans for fertilization are derived and translated into ISO 11783 to remotely control tractors via various open and brand-proprietary protocols.

Development of the Management Information System for the water supply, sanitation and hygiene sector (WASH) • MIS design, key indicator framework. • Asset management, benchmarking system • Develop, pilot test and roll out the implementation of the MIS. Development of manuals, user training

Implementation of the national water information system SNIEAU (Burkina Faso) Evaluation of offers; negotiations with the companies; monitoring of implementation process; supervision at DGRE over a period of 1 year after project implementation • Conferences and seminars with all participants

Dem. Rep. Congo Design and implementation of a Web based information system hosting the international organizations and their input on the water sector RDC (programs, projects, intervention). Decentralized data management, proprietary data sets, individual download (PDF, Excel)

Transboundary Water Management, Congo-basin Specification and Implementation of Web based information systems supporting the international commission of the Congo-Oubangui-Sangha basin (CICOS) in its transboundary water management. (Postgres, .Net, ArcGIS, Registre de la flotte, Training...)

Technical assistance at DGRE / Burkina Faso. Development of database- and GIS based tools for the creation and monitoring of the water master plan (PNAEPA). Monitoring tools for the Millennium Development Goals. Support to decentralisation.

Concept and implementation of the GIS-based River Rhine Information System for Dike Safety and Flood Protection. Development of expert modules for risk analysis and hazard management; Concept and design of data model, spatial databases, hydrological and geo-technical databases (Oracle/GeODin).

“DILG-gtz program towards an integrated Water Resources Management”, Phillipines. Concept and implementation of a water information system. GPS integration. (MapObjects, Delphi)

Water Sector Planning Support at the Ministry of Water and Irrigation Jordan / Digital Balancing Model for Water Resources Management; Dev. of a national Rainfall/Runoff-model; Training

National Water Master Plan Tunisia "Économie d'eau 2000" Development of computer-based tools for national water master planning. Digital water balancing model. Reservoir optimization model