Workshop: Making sense of humanitarian geospatial data to improve the impact of humanitarian interventions on health and wellbeing
Workshop: Making sense of humanitarian geospatial data to improve the impact of humanitarian interventions on health and wellbeing
One of the key challenges to achieve the goal of improving the life conditions for people who live in disadvantaged communities in low and middle-income countries is the lack of accurate and up-to-date spatial data about urban areas and vulnerable communities without access to basic services and in humanitarian need. Even if humanitarian NGOs may have access to several external data sources (e.g. socioeconomic data from national and international agencies), frequently the capacity to make sense of this data is limited when planning, delivering, monitoring and evaluating humanitarian interventions. This poses significant limitations of the effectiveness and impact of humanitarian work.
Co-convened by CIM faculty and students, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), the Bangladesh Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Operations Team (BHOOT) and the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University the workshop aims to address these challenges by acting as a platform of exchange between social science research and humanitarian NGOs. With the participation of geographic information officers, epidemiologists, other stakeholders from humanitarian NGOs and research institutions the working group will shed light into accessibility, quality and usability gaps of NGO data and distil best practices related to humanitarian geospatial data usage and sharing. The outcome will be a joint research agenda with a roadmap and outlines of follow-on projects.
There will be a Missing Maps Mid-Month Mapathon after the workshop. Workshop participants are encouraged to stay (please bring a laptop with mouse). The registration page for the mapathon is here.
Dates
17th and 18th of September 2018
Venue
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Lower Ground Floor, Chancery Exchange, 10 Furnival Street, London, EC4A 1AB
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Agenda
| Time | Programme Outline |
|---|---|
| Day 1 - 17/09 | |
| Theme: The Data Challenges | |
| 09:30 | Welcome and setting the scene, self-introduction |
| 09:50 | Presentation of challenges by MSF |
| 10:20 | Presentation of challenges by BHOOT |
| 10:50 | Break |
| 11:00 | Presentation of challenges by HOT |
| 11:30 | Presentation of challenges by Healthsites.io |
| 12:00 | Break |
| 12:10 | Locating the common themes / facilitates plenary discussion |
| 13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 | Group work |
| 15:30 | Break |
| 15:45 | Group presentations |
| 16:45 | Facilitated plenary discussion - visioning |
| 17:45 | Wrap-up |
| 19:00 | Group Dinner |
| Day 2 - 18/09 | |
| Theme: Best practice proposals and a research agenda | |
| 09:30 | Recap from Day 1 |
| 10:30 | Group work - project ideation |
| 11:45 | Break |
| 12:00 | Group presentations |
| 12:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 | Facilitated plenary discussion - project prioritisation |
| 14:30 | Break |
| 14:45 | Formulation of collaborative research agenda |
| 16:00 | End of workshop |
| 18:00 | Missing Maps mid-month mapathon |