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
Refugee Information Portal
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)
Refugee Information Portal
Refugee Information Portal
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
Refugee Information Portal
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
Refugee Information Portal
Refugee Information Portal
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
Refugee Information Portal
AdminPanel
Roles & responsibility
Refugee Information Portal
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.
Roles & responsibility
Refugee Information Portal
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
Roles & responsibility
Refugee Information Portal
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.
Roles & responsibility
Refugee Information Portal
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
Roles & responsibility
Refugee Information Portal
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
Roles & responsibility
Refugee Information Portal
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
Roles & responsibility
Refugee Information Portal
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
Refugee Information Portal
Development cycleRoles & responsibility
Refugee Information Portal
Issue RegisterDevelopment processes
Refugee Information Portal
Release cycleDevelopment processes
Refugee Information Portal
Collaborative development Development processes
Refugee Information Portal
“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
Refugee Information Portal
•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
Refugee Information Portal
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
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