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Information management inMSF
Information management inMSF
MSFCharter
• Médecins SansFrontières isaprivateinternationalassociationthatprovidesassistancetopopulationsindistress,tovictimsofnaturalorman-madedisastersandtovictimsofarmedconflict.Theydosoirrespectiveofrace,religion,creedorpoliticalconvictions.
How arewe organised
• TheMSFMovement• MSFassociations• Operationalstructure• Whereareweworking?• 256projectsinAfrica• 81projectsinAsia• 44projectsinMiddleEast• 38projectsinEurope• 5projectsinPacific
Complexity
• AsyoucanseeMSFisacomplexorganization,alsointermsofinformationmanagement.
• Thereisahugeamountofinformationrepository.Inamappingwedidlastyearweidentified75differentinformationrepositories.
• Standardizationandcoherenceisalongtermobjective.
Information management:Projects
Oops (Online-Offlinepublication system)
Problem: provide/distributerelevant,updatedinformation
Context: limitedconnectivityintimeandbandwidth,location,etc
OOPS:Theidea- awebarchitecture
Médecins Sans Frontières
• MadewithOpenSource
• UsesHTML5
• Extensiveplatformsupport
Features
• Downlodable andeasytoupdate• Mobileandflexible• Technicallyfriendlyforfieldusers
Information management:Headquarters
ThecaseoftheInternationaloffice,the“Pamoja”project• ThereasonsforPamoja• Objectivesoftheproject:
– ProvideauniquerepositoryforallInternationalOfficedocuments.– ProvideanIOwidecommunicationchannel.– SupportstraightforwardcommunicationwiththewholeMovement– Enablethecreationofvirtualcollaborativespaceswhereinformation
canbesharedinthecontextofoperationalprocesses.– Collaborativeworkspacesmusthavethepotentialtosupport
businessprocessesandnotonlybedocumentlibraries.
The three stages
• Stage1– Thefirststagefocusesonthecommonareastoallusers.
TogetherwiththedevelopmentofthenewsiteelementstherewillbesometrainingsessionsfortheChampionsnetworkandtherestoftheusers.
• Stage2– ThesecondstagewillstartafterStage1release.Followingthe
Agileprinciplesitthisdevelopmentswillbeorganizedasaseriesofsmallsprints.
• Stage3– Thethirdstagewillbesimilartothesecondbutopeningthesite
tootherusersfromoutsidetheInternationalOffice.
• TheplatformdevelopmentwillbedoneinthreePhases:
• Questions?