DARE activities RA III (S-America)

Status per 5 December 2012- Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Uruguay are developing data rescue activities; - Equator and Uruguay are manually recovering data,  but Equator and Brazil are using  data automatic digitalization mode, - Peru did not inform the data rescue option to support this kind of activities  - Brazil has almost 5,000,000 documents were cleaned, classified and part of them were scanned ; - Ecuador has 1,450,000 documents were rescued manually; - Uruguay informed that only data from 3 meteorological stations from the last 10 years were manually recovered, - Peru - unknow  - Brazil is using the support of the private sector ; - Ecuador has developed a solution to use scanners, but did not have budget and people to do it. Ecuador asked for technical and finantial support; - Uruguay had contracted an ONG to do it, but the results were no so good, because the eople was not well prepared, - Peru - unknow