FENIXSYSTEM OVERVIEW

TRAINING ON THE USE OF THE NEW COUNTRYSTAT

Introductory ConsiderationsData is a renewable resource, created every day by many organizations and individuals

There is a gap between the produced data and its availability

The Issue of Limited Access to Data • Lack of data and metadata harmonization

• Poor data dissemination systems/mechanisms

• Restrictive or unclear data policy

• Poor communication and awareness

Need to increase availability of data and create a network of national and international stakeholders to avail data and expertise

What to do• Avail data as “public good”

• Make a joint effort between the concerned stakeholders to:

• define the requirements for data content, analysis and dissemination

• produce consistent and reliable data

• Ensure that the IT platform is designed to meet the above requirements

• Improve and intensify communication using all available means (emails, Skype calls, social media , screen-sharing tools, etc.) to help raising/solving problems and to share views and experience

The 3 Key DimensionsInstitutional Framework

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Definition of procedures and tools

Political dimension

Technical dimension Data sharing network

Focusing on the IT aspects • Based on Open Source software; no licensing constraints and full redistribution rights

• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) - Extensible: ability to plug-in new functionalities and applications

• Designed to facilitate data sharing between countries, regions and international organizations through web services (APIs)

• May support different data collection/upload methods (e.g. online data entry; uploads from csv/xls files; automated load of email attachments; collection of data through smartphones

• Ability to handle databases, geospatial data (as remote sensing, GIS layers, etc.) and text

• Advanced analytical capacities with the embedded “R” statistical package

The Global Data Sharing Network• help data exchange at all levels

• create a common technical language across data owners, statisticians, analysts, academics, journalists and other users

• provide keys to interpret and understand the data, their reliability and their exact meaning (metadata)

• concrete initiative toward a data harmonization and integration process within and across countries and regions

• partner agencies will be encouraged to adopt data and metadata standards to ensure compatibility with other network resources

• IT systems will provide the technological infrastructure supporting the network

Open Source Technology Used by FENIX