Seeking feedback re: satellite, mobile phones & PDAs in humanitarian operations
09:03, 9 November 2010
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CartONG is a French NGO that provides mapping and information services to the humanitarian aid community, promoting standardisations of data between donors, NGOs and the United Nations. CartONG is currently working on something called the NOMAD project and is seeking to hear from people regarding their experiences in mobile data collection in humanitarian efforts and post-conflict situations, to gather information to compare paper versus satellite phone/GPS-enabled PDAs.If you have such experience, please consider filling out the CartONG survey.
From the web site:
Satellite, mobile phones and GPS-enabled PDA’s have recently become more than just communication devices and have been piloted successfully in humanitarian operations, though few organisations have standard procedures in place and started to use it for all their data needs.
How about your organisation? Have you carried out assessments with satellite phones or GPS-enabled PDA’s? Are you interested in these technologies? Have you embedded this technology into your data analysis and reporting cycles?
Again: if you have such experience, please consider filling out the CartONG survey.
The NOMAD project is a partnership among CartONG, AUVEA, CNES (the French government space agency), IMMAP (a nonprofit that applies appropriate information management practices and new information technologies in service to the humanitarian community, enabling them to solve pressing global humanitarian challenges), MEDES and the World Food Programme (WFP).
