Seychelles pristine environment is
occasionally being affected by different kind of environmental negligence.
Therefore the Ministry of Environment is counting on the support from the
General public to report any environment-related incident through a web app
Ecoalert, which was introduced by the Department of Information, Communication
and Technology, last Friday during a press conference. The Ecoalert Web app was initiated by the Ministry of Environment,
Energy and Climate Change which is now accessible to the public for
reporting any incident which is illegal to the environment. This web app
is accessible through a web page www.ecoalert.gov.sc
on any web browser such as Smart phone, Laptop, Computer and Tablets
this web app is not available as an icon in App Store or Google play
store.
The Principal Secretary for Environment
Mr. Alain Decomarmond, stated that this Web app is an additional reporting
platform for the public, as Green Line (2722111), Ministry’s Website and
Facebook are still operational, and the Ministry wants to broaden their option
of communication.
“Green Line is operational 24/7, our staff
respond to any incident that is being reported. We have even explored the
option of WhatsApp in the past, unfortunately the Ministry has taken a decision
to stop as we received tones pictures or messages that was not relevant to the
environment. Therefore we gave thoughts that nowadays people are moving more
towards technology and social media, then we had the idea of creating a web app
which would be easy for people to upload pictures and videos.” Explained PS Decomarmond
Krisl Gopal the Principal Analyst from DICT, gave a small
demonstration on how Eco alert functions. Simply upload video or
pictures not more than 25 MB and select their location and describe the
incident. Mr. Terry Mousbe, Program development Officer from the
Ministry in the department of education declare that lack of man power
prevent them for being all over the island each and anytime. Therefore
he advised that they make good use of Ecoalert.
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