ABSTRACT

A number of telematics projects is going, is planned or has been implemented in Ministry of Environmental Protection, Lithuania. Joint Research Centre is responsible for all these activities. As a number of projects is continuously increasing the integration of a set of projects to entire system is one of the main problems to be solved all the time.

The integration should include all components of telematics projects in full life cycle of project from idea to developing to implementation and to maintaining of knowledge base for experience collecting and dissemination and for providing a feedback. The components of projects are business processes, information content, informatics and telecommunication systems. All types of resources (human, financial, equipment, facilities, information) should be used in the most reasonable mode and assessed to meet requirements of a system approach..

The Ministry is dealing with projects in different levels : UN (INFOTERRA, maESTro), European Union (EIONET), European Regions (BALLERINA, Lielupe River Basin Water Monitoring and Management in Latvia and Lithuania ), national wide projects (VADIS (Government Administrative Information System), State Treasury System), Ministry (information networks , including level of regional departments and agencies (municipalities).

As projects are in different stage and different technological infrastructure is used there is a number of integration problems both in technological aspects and in institutional ones including management (from international to local level) of project system, institutional strengthening (business process reengineering if possible ), harmonizing legal and environmental content aspects and so on.

The Ministry has collected some experience in integration of projects and has prepared proposals for better management of the system of projects and solving of the integration problems.