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An evaluation of Humanitarian Information Centres

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Publisher(s) USAID & DFID (2004)
Author(s) Lewis Sida & Chris Szpak
Description

There is a contested vision among stakeholders with regard to the role of HICs despite terms of reference which are currently being considered by the IASC for endorsement. Some see the HIC as solely an instrument for supporting coordination, whereas others view it as an agent for promulgating information management practices and standards. Such perceptions raise differing expectations and can cause confusion regarding the purpose of the HIC, both among users and staff.

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www.humanitarianinfo.org/hicstakeholder2007/HIC_evaluations/HIC_Evaluation_2004.pdf

Posted December 11th, 2007 by matslats

Development Assistance Database

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http://www.synisys.com/index.jsp?sid=1&id=95&pid=73

This software, from Synergy is employed by many developing countries to track and report on official development assistance.
Afghanistan (this link seems to be malformed all over the web...)
Indonesia
Iraq
Lebanon
Maldives
Pakistan
Sri Lanka

Posted December 8th, 2007 by matslats
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InfoShare

http://www.info-share.org/

[at time of writing web site is down, so information is a bit sketchy]

Info Share is a Sri Lankan post Tsunami initiative, aiming to support particularly the peace movement in Sri Lanks, but also any humanitarian operations.

The main project is an information sharing platform, comparable to MS Groove, for distributed organisations and multi-stakeholder projects to work together.

However they seem to have their fingers in many pies

Posted December 1st, 2007 by matslats

DesInventar

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http://undp.desinventar.net

There is huge number and variety of disaster databases in the world. So many, and so incomparable.

La RED made a new approach to disaster databases. They wanted to address this problem, not only by making a standard, but by measuring the impact of disasters from below, at the local level, rather than on the basis of each event.

DesInventar is a database schema and software to support it, which has now been implemented in 21 disaster prone areas all over the world as far as they know.

Posted November 14th, 2007 by matslats

Reuters AlertNet

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http://www.alertnet.org/

This service is basically a Reuters portal with some other useful add-ons.

Country profiles and interactive maps show where the emergencies are happening and allow deep analysis of other factors using data from a range of sources, reminiscent of Gapminder.

There is also a W3 database, which indicates a surprising amount of NGO buy-in.

Posted October 31st, 2007 by matslats
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United Nations Mine Action Service

http://www.mineaction.org/index.asp

This simple but clear website, run out of UNDPKO in New York, just keeps tabs on the sector of landmine clearance.

It provides lists of organisations, known stockpiles, funding mechanisms, international law, UN documents, and more.

This must be a valuable reference site for actors in the sector.

Posted October 31st, 2007 by matslats

RedHum

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http://www.redhum.org

RedHum is a Latin American regional disaster information service in Spanish, comparable to and supported by ReliefWeb.

Lead by the OCHA Regional office in Panama, this project is spread between six country offices, making it Regional and National in scope.

The front page shows off its geotagged situation reports using google maps, but this is perhaps not the most useful information on the site.

Posted October 31st, 2007 by matslats
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Afghanistan Information Management Service

http://www.aims.org.af

If instead of stopping a HIC at the end of an emergency, you experimented with integrating the HIC with government, you might create something like AIMS.

AIMS supports the government of Afghanistan by providing informaiton management capacity and training services. It has been instrumental in the opening of GIS labs in universities accross the country

The organisation, consisting of more than 70 people, seeks to become sustainable by deriving income from certain kinds of information provision, and becoming closer to government.

Posted October 29th, 2007 by matslats

Transitional Shelter Site Tracking project

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http://www.unops.org.lk/tsst/

This simple web site does the simple job required of it. It is merely a public repository for assessment information, for shelter providors in Sri Lanka to see the larger picture.

It is technically simple, it uses too much acrobat, it's not clear who vets the information or how to submit it, but the fact that this information is published is the most important thing.

Why UNICEF is hosting this information and not the Sri Lanka HIC, isn't clear to me

Posted October 29th, 2007 by matslats

Logistics cluster

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http://www.logcluster.org

This summer the logistics cluster, headed by UNJLC produced this web site to help coordinate field logisiticians from all organisations working on a particular operation.

It's open source, it's web 2.0 (just), it was graphic designed by a professional, it is standards compliant and accessible, it has feeds from ReliefWeb it even has a list of Accronyms [sic]. Typical page size is 40k, with 120k of cachable linked files. Not too bad, although a low bandwidth version might still be helpful.

Posted October 29th, 2007 by matslats
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