Biosafety Clearing House Training Workshop for Regional Advisors
15 - 27 May 2006Bangkok, Thailand
Introduction to Management Centre
Prakash BistaFred Vogel
Registering Information on BCH
OBJECTIVE
• Understand the Management Centre
• Use the Central Portal to register information into the BCH
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How
• Presentation
• Authorized users demo
• Hands-on lab
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Institutional Structure
• In the framework of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, two groups of users are considered for interacting with the Biosafety Clearing House:– National Focal Point for the Biosafety Clearing-
House (NFP-BCH)– National Authorized User (NAU)
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BCH vs BCH Training Website
BCH Website:
http://bch.biodiv.org
BCH Training Website:
http://bchtraining.biodiv.org
• Training site to help in the learning & understanding.
• Similar to the real website but may have differences due to upgrading.
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Management Centre Data entry interface for
registering, updating, deleting or correcting information
Access restricted to the BCH NFPs and other authorized users
Information must be validated by BCH-NFP or the CBD Secretariat
Anyone can register Information made public only
after verification by NFP
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Sign-in to Management Centre
Requires a username and password
Use the email address used for registering as a user
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Registering new information
• National Contacts
• Laws and regulations
• Decisions and declarations
• Capacity building
• Roster of experts
• Other Resources
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Manage information
• Manage Information
• Edit information
• Delete Information
Registering Information on BCHManage Authorized users (only for National Focal Points)
• Manage Authorized Users
• Authorize new user
• Edit user
• Delete user
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Manage Authorized Users Demo
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Hands-on Lab
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Groups
• Group 1 – Brazil
• Group 2 – France
• Group 3 – Spain
• Group 4 – Norway
• Group 5 – Mexico
• Group 6 – Sweden
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Users
• 6 Groups of 3:– 2 National Authorized Users (NAUs)
bangkokX.nauN
– 1 BCH-National Focal Point (NFP) gbangkokX.nfp
– All passwords are “bangkok”
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Hands-on Lab: Roles
• First user in the row is BCH-NFP, and the rest are NAUs 1 to …
• http://bchtraining.biodiv.org
• NAUs enter fictitious data
• BCH-NFP validates ONE RECORD
• Each user then exchange role so that all can be BCH-NFP
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OBJECTIVE
• To learn how to input country information into the BCH
• Case studies follow a related path(e.g., information registered about Contacts
would be further be referenced in another records)
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Steps to follow
• Input ONE contact information of a person
• Input ONE Competent National Authority
• Input ONE decision or declaration on LMO using the Contact and CNA as a reference
• Input ONE Risk Assessment
• Input ONE National law or regulation using the reference of an existing CNA
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After first info input...
• NFP validates ONE record
• Change roles, repeat point 1 for every member of your group
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Review questions
• What are the two groups of users considered for interacting with the bch portal?
• What is the BCH training website, and how do you reach it?• Describe the workflow for registering and approving information on the BCH • Who validates the new information to be made public in the Central Portal?• Who can register new information on the Central Portal? • When is information made public ?• How to sign-in to the Management Centre?• What are Common Formats? Why are them needed?• What is the Thesaurus or Common Vocabulary• What types or categories of information can be registered?• Who can manage Authorized Users for a Party?• How does the NFP know that he / she has some information to review and
validate on the Central Portal?• How does an NAU know the state of the registered information?