Kuwait, being one of the leading countries in environmental protection, has endeavored to establish, through its Ministry of Planning, the Kuwait Integrated Environmental Information Network (KIEIN). The KIEIN project was conducted at Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), under full support of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
Phase one of the project covered the marine and coastal environment, whereas phase two focused on the terrestrial and atmospheric environment.
Under the current phase of KIEIN project, all the GIS datasets of the previous two phases were complemented and incorporated in the comprehensive “Geo-Environmental” database. In addition, all the applications/tools were enhanced and incorporated, as well as several new functionalities, in KIEIN desktop application.
Moreover, two new major components were introduced in the current phase of KIEIN; namely the socio-economic domain (and application), and KIEIN web-based application.