[talk-ph] Fwd: Invitation to an inter-agency meeting to discuss availability, quality and accessibility of common and fundamental operational datasets in the Philippines (June 16th, 2014)

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 11:31:00 UTC 2014


Thanks for the update Eugene.  Looking forward to what will happen next.


On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> This is quite delayed, but I would like to provide a short report of what
> happened during the DSWD forum. I was able to attend the afternoon session
> (the morning session was reserved for government agencies).
>
> Basically, the idea of the forum is to provide a venue for government
> agencies and international humanitarian/aid organizations to talk about the
> problem of sharing (mostly geospatial) data sets related to disaster risk
> reduction, mitigation, response, and management. There has been a lot of
> activity surroung relied efforts for Typhoon Haiyan but these are usually
> uncoordinated leading to duplication of effort and missed opportunities.
>
> There were attendees from various government agencies: DBM, DSWD, DOH,
> DPWH, DOTC, PNP, CAAP, OCD, PAGASA, and NFA. There was a representative
> from DILG who attended the morning session; unfortunately the
> representative couldn't attend in the afternoon. Sadly, there was no
> representative from NAMRIA.
>
> Aside from the local OpenStreetMap community (represented by me and
> Julius), we also had attendees from the the international humanitarian/aid
> organizations: United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
> Affairs (UN OCHA), World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), Japan
> International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the International Organization
> for Migration (IOM).
>
> During the morning session, the following points were drawn up in order to
> address the main issue:
>
> 1. Data accessibility needs to be addressed, possibly through another
> workshop. This includes the use of open machine-readable formats (not just
> PDFs, or worse, scanned documents) and open licenses.
>
> 2. Availability and completeness of data, especially the fundamental data
> sets, needs to be tackled. One possible solution is to turn to
> crowd-sourcing to help complete missing data. Furthermore, it was pointed
> out that many data sets are maintained by the LGUs (example, administrative
> boundaries) so the cooperation of DILG is vital.
>
> 3. There is the issue of a lack of geospatial data specifications and
> standards. NAMRIA is the lead agency in charge of this item, and an
> inter-governmental workshop may be needed.
>
> 4. A policy for data sharing needs to be formulated. The NDRRMC is the
> body assigned for this item.
>
> 5. There is a need to promote and standardize the use of PSGC for
> referring to LGUs in all of the data sets.
>
> The afternoon session was basically a discussion of other points related
> to the ones listed above.
>
> I am not aware of any next steps yet, but I do hope this would lead to
> good things, and especially, a lot of open data sets.
>
> ~Eugene
>
>
>
>  On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:08 AM, maning sambale <
> emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Everyone,
>>
>> With permission from the organizers, OSM-PH community is invited to this
>> event.
>> They alloted 2-3 slots for OSM-PH.
>>
>> Program details and other documents here:
>>
>> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-2WZQ1DwK_xWHFHd1p6dGJQMG8&usp=sharing
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Steeve Ebener <steeve.ebener at gaia-geosystems.org>
>> Date: Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:28 AM
>> Subject: Invitation to an inter-agency meeting to discuss availability,
>> quality and accessibility of common and fundamental operational datasets in
>> the Philippines (June 16th, 2014)
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> While waiting for the official invitation to reach you from DSWD, and
>> apologizing in advance for such a short notice, I already wanted to share
>> with you attached the agenda and paper for next week's meeting to discuss
>> the availability, quality and accessibility of common and fundamental
>> operational datasets to support disaster risk reduction and emergency
>> management in the Philippines.
>>
>>
>>
>> This meeting, jointly organized by DSWD and the Strengthening Information
>> Infrastructure for Emergency Management (SIIEM) project, will take place at
>> the UP Asian Center.
>>
>>
>>
>> As per the attached agenda, the morning session will allow for
>> Governmental institutions to comment on the attached paper and share their
>> own data related experience and challenges faced during the response to
>> typhoon Yolanda with the objectives to identify activities and resources
>> that would be needed in order to unlock the main barriers to availability,
>> quality and accessibility of these datasets.
>>
>>
>>
>> In the afternoon, the international community (donors, United Nations,
>> Open Data Community,...) are invited to join the Governmental institutions
>> to discuss how the activities and needs for resources identified during the
>> morning could be covered.
>>
>>
>>
>> The morning session being limited to Governmental institutions, we would
>> appreciate your confirmation of participation to the afternoon session by
>> tomorrow COB. Please contact Mr. Lawrence Anthony S. Dimailig (
>> lasdimailig at dswd.gov.ph) or Ms. Vanity Joy B. Estremera (
>> vjbestremera at dswd.gov.ph) at 931-8085 in this regards or for any other
>> enquiries you might have.
>>
>>
>>
>> Looking forward to your Agency’s full support and active participation
>> during this event.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely Yours,
>>
>>
>>
>> Steeve Ebener
>>
>>
>>
>> *Steeve Ebener, Ph.D.*
>> CEO Gaia GeoSystems
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> cheers,
>> maning
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