Geo-Information for the UN Agency for the Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners

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1 Geo-Information for the UN Agency for the Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners Using geo-information for refugee operations Development road map & Wish-list 3.

2 Field Information & Coordination Support and build capacity Set standards Develop tools and guidelines Consolidate, verify, analyze, publish & disseminate data Network & develop partnerships.

3 Dealing with multiple dataset GeoData Office location Refugee camp/site/settlement location Site/Camp mapping Project & Warehouse location Geo-visualisation of: Annual statistics and biodata profiling Standards and indicators Health Information Logistic, procurement and stock management Telecommunication and security Refugee camp near Goz Beida in Chad

4 Example 1 > Indicators mapping Areas and populations >200m from a water point Square meters per person

5 Example 2 > Siting refugee camps

6 From desktop GIS to web mapping Currently a few GIS Officers are working on desktop GIS with the following limits: GIS is generally perceived rather as a map-making tool than a decision making instrument Only a few offices do benefit from a GIS specialist

7 Currently: pyramid + silos Public. IO, governments HQ. Global. Data aggregation Country Rep. Data confidentiality Sub-Office Camp / Site Population Statistics Standards & Indicators Population censuses Camp/site planning: prot/env/ Local.

8 Data management challenges Expand access to data through internet/extranet Maintain data granularity for better decision making Allow crowd sources visualization and analysis through systems Interoperability

9 Single Sign On Search, Query & Shortcuts Online Edition Object metadata autofilling PDF generation Geonetwork for metadata offline abilities

10 Accessing large scale dataset UNGIWG for International borders UNSDI-T for transportation SALB/WHO, GAUL/FAO for administrative unit boundaries Protected area Global Risk UNEP for Google and OpenStreetMap for map and Street

11 Wiki-style browser-based edition Camp mapping and event reporting Used for Community revision control Link with our refugee registration application: Vulnerability mapping

12 Thematic mapping and choropleth Population statistics Security and Health Outbreak events project indicators Visualization of Reporting of warehouse level and of office procurement stock

13 Forthcoming development GeoRSS/KML layers Cluster rendering Pie Chart rendering GPX drawing Time scale visualization Internationalization i18n Permalink Google earth-mapfish widget

14 Operations Portal pilot project Towards Humanitarian apps/portlet library Content portlet (RSS, Wiki, CMS) GeoPortlet (configurable map) Data portlet (reporting, dashboard)

15 Lessons learnt from Open Source First demonstrate Open source is not free AGILE development Ensure the share-ability of development Build a community

16 Perspective 1 > More interoperability Web Services (WMS, WFS, KML, GeoRSS) Humanitarian Portlets Widgets - OpenAPI (cf Worldbank API) Emergency Ontology (cf W3C Emergency Information Interoperability Framework)

17 Perspective 2 > Offline web Mapping Emulate a simplified desktop GIS on an offline browser and for different terminals: Find ways to pre-package country dataset Test sync process

18 Perspective 3 > Maps and data exploration Link our GeoPortal with our Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship management (CRM) internal apps Find tools to link Geo Information and Business intelligence: Spatial OLAP (GeoBI, GeoMondrian, Spatialitics )

19 What can we offer? The Open Source Code we use in our application Our Data Web Services Our experience in Open source & spatial information management

20 What we are looking for? Humanitarian technology think tanks for exchange of ideas Organizations ready to interoperate Application code (Offline usage, Spatial OLAP) that can be reused & tested