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We continue to have good relations with the Macao Government and other local institutions, particularly the Macao Foundation and the University of Macau:

e-Government Project: This project, described in section *, is a collaboration involving the Macao Government, the University of Macau, and the software engineering institute INESC-Macau.
UNU Research Repository: This on-line repository of research materials is a UNU-wide collaboration, and may later involve other UN agencies: see section *. The Macao Foundation is sharing the cost.
Macao Water: We have started a collaboration with Macao Water and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) to help Macao Water manage the salinity in Macao's drinking water, which tends to be high during the winter. So far CUHK has produced software using constraint satisfaction techniques, and UNU-IIST has supplied the web-based interface to this program. In addition UNU-IIST has been studying the application of genetic algorithms to the problem.

Other collaborative projects

Open Source Software: We are still aiming at a collaborative EU project on the certification of open source software: see section *.
Lake Management: The sustainable exploitation of lake and river basins needs decision support systems (DSSs) that are very expensive to create. The idea of creating a generic DSS with a team of computer scientists and domain experts was discussed at a joint project organised jointly by UNU-IIST and UNU-INWEH in November 2003. The workshop thought such a project feasible, and proposed to develop a prototype that could be used to seek funding from, perhaps, the World Bank to develop a full system. Work has not proceeded because of shortage of available effort, but it is hoped to get it under way by 2005.

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