Speed geeking

Aurélien Jacoutot – CartONG volunteer

Presentation

Unmanned Aerial Vehicule (UAV) are increasingly affordable, and their usefulness in the humanitarian sector is increasingly acknowledged. Participative mapping is a powerful tool to enhance the communities' resilience facing natural disasters, but also to engage a dynamic for the local development of the territory. Building on CartONG's field experience in Haiti, this speed geeking will demonstrate how to use an UAV for participatory mapping.

Madagascar project team – CartONG volunteer

Numerous NGOs are active in Madagascar but for most of them they are working discretely and without coordination, which limits their efficiency as well as their local and international visibility. A map of these solidarity actions might play a role in improving the visibility of these NGOs. The mapping tool would give a general overview of all actions both at the local and global level, gather the means of action as well as the practical teachings, ensure a better follow-up of the actions lead on the field and therefore would contribute to the greater efficiency of international solidarity. The aim is to set up an online platform gathering the information on solidarity projects in Madagascar, which would be accessible thanks to an intuitive, complete and collaborative mapping interface.

Frédéric Jacon – Camptocamp

GeOrchestra is an interoperable and secure open spatial data infrastructure created in 2009, initially to answer the INSPIRE directive requirements in Europe. This prosoftware has been deployed in France and at the International level in order to handle the important amount of geospatial data to catalogue, display and valorize.

Assanke Koedam - JIPS

The Dynamic Analysis and Reporting Tool (DART) is a web-based data management system where humanitarian and development actors can explore, analyse and visualise displacement data collected through profiling exercises supported by the Joint IDP Profiling service (JIPS).The aim of DART is to improve the dissemination, access and analysis of profiling data of displacement situations.

Jean-Martin Bauer – WFP

Presentation

The mVAM project is piloting food security data collection from households through short mobile phone surveys, using live telephone interviews and an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system. The objective of the pilot is to learn about the suitability of voice calls for survey research in the humanitarian world, and to see if voice calls can make food security monitoring surveys more time and cost efficient. The high frequency data collected is used to track trends in vulnerability and support decision making processes.

Karen Kisakeni – Danish Demining Group

Access to timely and accurate information is often very limited in areas where mines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) pose hazards to the local population. The Danish Demining Group (DDG) is therefore piloting a two-way communication web portal and parallel SMS service that will improve the information provision and exchange between the people living in the affected communities and the Mine Action (MA) operators assisting these communities.

Nicolas Chavent – HOT

In 2013, the Espace OSM Francophone project aimed at consolidating the OpenStreetMap community in Senegal, strengthening the community in Chad and creating as well as stimulating communities in Burkina Faso and Togo. These OSM objectives will be reached through the implementation of training and mapping activities based on OSM and the implementation of support programs for the animation and organization of local OSM communities.

Olivier Sarrat – Sigmah

Presentation

Sigmah is an open source software for the shared management of international aid projects. The software is simple, flexible and intuitive and allows each organisation to organize its own work methods, and thereby improve the quality of its programs. Sigmah is the result of a participatory project facilitated by a group of international aid organisations, which released the software in the public realm so that it is available to all. Sigmah has two aims: primary and foremost: to help organisations to identify the critical points in project management and build a project database of actionable information; secondary: to encourage organisations to share non-confidential information from this database with their peers in order to improve coordination in the sector.

Maëlle Aubert – UNOSAT

Presentation

In 2009 the Chadian government asked the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to prepare a detailed concept paper addressing how to map Chad´s water resources. This is how ResEAU, a project implemented and managed by the Ministry and the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNITAR-UNOSAT), with the support of the Federal Office of Topography (swisstopo) and the Centre d'Hydrogéologie et de Géothermie (CHYN), was created. The first phase focuses on developing a knowledge base for the northern and eastern regions of Chad. The ResEau team has created a GIS and water library database, including geological, hydrological and well/borehole information for Chad. From this database two hydrogeological atlases are being prepared by UNOSAT.