Information Management
Thursday, May 24, 2012   
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INFORMATION MANAGEMENT OVERVIEW
 
Managing timely, reliable and accurate information during a humanitarian emergency is critical to the coordination of humanitarian response efforts. In recent years, the humanitarian community, including OCHA, has come to recognize the critical role that information management plays in making humanitarian assistance more efficient and effective.
 
The term information management covers the various stages of information processing from production to storage and retrieval to dissemination towards the better working of an organization; information can be from internal and external sources and in any format. (Association for Information Management, 2005)
 
The roles of the section are:
 
Facilitate the effective strategic management of OCHA’s information domain, i.e. the range and volume of information that OCHA acquires, generates and disseminates.
 
Provide coordination and leadership in the application of information management in disaster preparedness and response, helping to assure that the information resources and information management expertise required by OCHA to function effectively in emergencies is available.
 
Build sustainable partnerships in advance of disasters that directly contribute to the predictable exchange of information in emergencies.
 

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REDHUM

The Humanitarian Information Network (Redhum) is a hub based on the identification of the main humanitarian actors or organization that facilitates easy access to the voluminous humanitarian information in the Latin America and Caribbean region though a Website (Redhum.org) in Spanish. 
 
With close participation from various regional institutions, the Redhum website coordinates information from the region with close participation from various regional institutions, the Redhum website coordinates information from the region and diffuses situation analysis that would facilitate decision making.
 
 
ReliefWeb
 
ReliefWeb is the world’s leading on-line gateway to information on humanitarian emergencies and disasters.
 
With 2,500 sources and 24-hour coverage by offices in New York, Geneva and Kobe, ReliefWeb aims to strengthen the response capacity of the humanitarian relief community through the timely dissemination of reliable information on natural disasters and complex emergencies. In order to provide balanced coverage, ReliefWeb partners with a broad range of sources from the UN system, NGOs, Governments, academic institutions and the media.
 
 


 

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REDHUM STATISTICS

 

 

 

Number of page loads and visitors per month – highlighting emergencies that influenced the page loads growth curve and number of users accessing Redhum.

 

 

 

Redhum users:  The blue line represents new users. This curve normally reflects the occurrence of the major emergencies. The returning visitors curve (in orange) shows the constant increase in audience; a good indicator of quality information and services provided.

 

 
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This website was developed with the assistance of Thematic Funding from the Humanitarian Aid Department of the European Commission in 2004 and 2005