Information Sharing Portal

Information Sharing PortalInformation Sharing Portal

1. Introduction

2. Information presented

3. Roles & responsibility

4. Development processes

5. Demo

Edouard LegoupilData Management [email protected]

Question: UNHCR Website QUIZZ

1. http://www.unhcr.org2. http://intranet.unhcr.org3. http://learn.unhcr.org4. http://msrp.unhcr.org5. http://focus.unhcr.org6. http://his.unhcr.org7. http://gsd.unhcr.org8. http://geoportal.unhcr.org9. Http://connectivity.unhcr.org10.https://signup.unhcr.org/11.http://www.refworld.org12.www.parkdatabase.org13.http://www.yammer.org

http://www.unhcr.org/pages/4a24e3086.html

Refugee Information Portal

Objectives1. Introduction

Defining authoritative data

Move from the need to protect data to the need to share : Open Data

Current work on manageability and interoperability:

Six instances in production during last year (mostly for emergencies):

- Horn - Ethiopia - South Sudan - Mali - Liberia - Syria


Introduction1. Introduction

Http://data.unhcr.org

Simplified Operational Dashboard:• Regional Level (e.g Horn of Africa)• Country Level (e.g. Kenya)• Sub-Office Level (e.g. Dadaab)• Settlement/Camp Level (e.g. Ifo)


Structure & ModuleInformation presented

Regional Level (e.g Horn of Africa)• Total refugee population per country• Appeal and financial information• Pipeline for Core Relief Item for refugee operations

Country Level (e.g. Kenya)• Overall aggregate population profile / arrival trends• Highlights / News• Documents (Statistics excel, Maps, Updates, Reports, Meeting Notes)• Calendar and events

Sub-Office Level (e.g. Dadaab)• Population profile / arrival trends• Highlights / News• Documents (Statistics, Maps, Updates, Reports)• Calendar and events

Settlement/Camp Level (e.g. Ifo)• Population profile• Basic Indicators• Who What Where• Core Relief Item distribution report


Data Flow

Web Portal

Kenya

EthiopiaIndividual registration

Arrival / Influx figures

WeeklyEvery Monday

Distribution report

Who What Where

Indicators

WeeklyEvery Monday

WeeklyEvery Monday

Ad-hocWhen changes

Monthly (30th)

Warehouse stock & Pipeline

WeeklyEvery Monday

Doc, Events, NewsAd-hoc

When changes

A portal is not a primary data collection tool!

A portal is not a Content Management System

Information presented


Portal deployment

Refugee emergency

Decide of a name for the instance

Approval of the Representative

Availability of an IMO

For IDP, OCHA has the lead: http://humanitarianresponse.info/ ... It should be a cluster based portal

Roles & responsibility


AdminPanel



Blanket clearance

For regularly produced particular type of report or document

Bypass the Executive approval process and be directly posted in the portal by the Information Manager upon request from the Sectoral Lead.

The Executive may revoke “blanket” clearance at any time by notifying the Information Manager and the Sectoral Lead.



Sector specific clearance

Defined by sectoral groups, based on consensus

Approval of the Executive is required. Executive may consult the Senior Public Information Officer

Possibly post only a portion of the information

Responsibility of the Chair of the sectoral group to communicate the decisions of the Executive to the group



Highlight clearance

Highlight should not be confused with "news"

Limited to 160 characters.

Can be suggested directly by Sectoral Working Groups.

The Chair of the Sectoral Working Group can email the text for the “Highlight” to the Executive for approval, copying the Information Manager.



News clearance

Responsibility of the Senior Public Information Officer

News items on the UNHCR public website already cleared

Other to be cleared by the PI with the Rep



Conflicting figures

One of the following options must be defined:

1. Total remain based on estimates and a subtotal based on registration/survey/census is mentioned

2. Total remain based on registration/survey/census and a parallel number based on estimates is mentioned as a comment

3. Total remain based on registration/survey/census OR on estimates. The other number is not mentioned



Defining region

Region can be known administrative unit or not

Region are operational area, you can define them of you want

Site details in a specific can be made visible or not, but figures remain taken in account



Reporting Public

Information

Data Management

Programme andProtection

Information Management

Filling information gaps for evidence-based decision-making and coordination

Collect, record, analyze and

visualize quantitative and qualitative data

Ensuring good control on

information dissemination and

quality of presentation

Data skills

Knowledge of procedures

Political Awareness

Roles & responsibilityIM: Bringing skills together


Development cycleRoles & responsibility


Issue RegisterDevelopment processes


Release cycleDevelopment processes


Collaborative development Development processes


“It does not work”: Bug Report

•"Show me.“•"Show me how to show myself."•"Works for me. So what goes wrong?“•"So then I tried . . .”•"I think the tachyon modulation must be wrongly polarized”•"That's funny, it did it a moment ago.”•"So I loaded the disk on to my Windows . . ."

•Be specific.•Be verbose. •Be careful of pronouns. •Read what you wrote.

Development processes


•One at a time please•Be concise•Give us the big picture.•Style counts•So does attitude•Be timely•Include a picture, but only...if it helps

“Something is missing”: Feature RequestDevelopment processes


http://data.unhcr.org/uat/Password protected Instance log: 'colleagues'pass: 'unhcr'

Back office here:http://data.unhcr.org/uat/admin.php

log: 'admin_super'pass: 'unhcr@123'

'User Acceptance test' InstanceDemo

Information Sharing Portal

Documents

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