
In supporting weather prediction services in Pacific Small Islands Developing States (Pacific SIDS) - the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP) has developed a series of training to support services collate, view, analyse and interpret weather data and at the same time compose, edit, disseminate and archive weather forecasts in graphical and text formats. The course content include the fundamentals of systems and network administration, website development and maintenance, scripting, etc. The development and delivery of courses take into consideration system and application environments in place at NMSs and SPREP with the main objective enhancing the sustainability of IT tools in these institutions, and building on regional IT technical capacity.learnt about operating systems, systems administration and how to operate web pages. All of which will see them become more confident in using SmartMet.