Comments on: I’m not liveblogging the Global Symposium +5 in Geneva http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/10/25/im-not-liveblogging-the-global-symposium-5-in-geneva/ because information can save lives Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:58:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: humanitarian.info » Liveblogging the NetHope 2007 Summit http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/10/25/im-not-liveblogging-the-global-symposium-5-in-geneva/comment-page-1/#comment-97877 humanitarian.info » Liveblogging the NetHope 2007 Summit Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:20:34 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/10/25/im-not-liveblogging-the-global-symposium-5-in-geneva/#comment-97877 [...] 6, 2007Liveblogging the NetHope 2007 Summit While I was busy not liveblogging the OCHA +5 Symposium, David Goodman and Chad Sutton of IRC were very busy liveblogging the NetHope 2007 Summit in [...] [...] 6, 2007Liveblogging the NetHope 2007 Summit While I was busy not liveblogging the OCHA +5 Symposium, David Goodman and Chad Sutton of IRC were very busy liveblogging the NetHope 2007 Summit in [...]

]]> By: Andrew Alspach http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/10/25/im-not-liveblogging-the-global-symposium-5-in-geneva/comment-page-1/#comment-95249 Andrew Alspach Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:17:24 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/10/25/im-not-liveblogging-the-global-symposium-5-in-geneva/#comment-95249 Our working group came up with some interesting actions to follow-up. I would love your input on how you think we can leverage new technology. A lot of talk focussed on, not inventing new tools, but accessing existing tools and improving inter-operability. On the organizational management side, the Symposium highly recommended a IASC sub working group on IM to follow-up on recommendations. This is logical but practically how do we keep NGOs engaged and get local governments more involved? Our working group came up with some interesting actions to follow-up. I would love your input on how you think we can leverage new technology. A lot of talk focussed on, not inventing new tools, but accessing existing tools and improving inter-operability. On the organizational management side, the Symposium highly recommended a IASC sub working group on IM to follow-up on recommendations. This is logical but practically how do we keep NGOs engaged and get local governments more involved?

]]> By: Dennis King http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/10/25/im-not-liveblogging-the-global-symposium-5-in-geneva/comment-page-1/#comment-93821 Dennis King Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:38:39 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/10/25/im-not-liveblogging-the-global-symposium-5-in-geneva/#comment-93821 Paul, We definitely missed you at the Global Symposium +5: not only your challenging and stimulating input, but seeing you again and talking to you apart from the Symposium events. As someone who has been involved in some of the more innovative initiatives since 2002 and the lead commentator in the humanitarian community blogisphere, your absence was noted by many attendees at the 2007 Symposium. http://www.reliefweb.int/symposium/ I am a little burnt out right now and when I get back to Washington DC I will engage here more fully, but let me say that I appreciate and agree with your blog comments about the 2002 Symposium, its modest achievements and the progress that needs to be made. As one of the organizers of the 2002 Symposium and now taking on the role as Rapporteur at this event, it was very gratifying to me to see the new directions that the field of humanitarian information (and knowledge) management has taken in the last five years and having it recognized and promoted at the 2007 Symposium. As you noted, the 2007 Symposium took great strides toward broadening the participation to some newly emerging players, and not just the usual cast of characters and members of the choir, of which I admittedly one. In 2002, we had more or less 5 years of experience with the Web, GIS, limited availability of satellite imagery, and some new field humanitarian information projects, and the 2002 Symposium focused on this and promoting these “information for information’s sake” systems, tools, and projects. In this week’s Symposium, it was gratifying for me to see that we had gone beyond that….that the focus was on the practical and strategic use of information and analysis, the two-way sharing of information with the affected communities, the ad hoc professionalization of the humanitarian information community, the acceptance of some defacto standards and best practices, some of the positive and negative uses of new technologies that have emerged in the last 5 years, and the new realities that the world and the humanitarian community has begun to face and the role that information/knowledge management has in addressing these challenges. Knowing you, I perfectly understand your frustration, but am glad to see that you are still participating in the discussion and some of the new initiatives that are taking place. With the new challenges, the prehistoric bureaucracies, and some ingrained obstacles, the effort to save lives, reduce suffering and improve the quality of life through better information management is a serious undertaking and one that requires many simultaneous and complimentary individual and organization efforts to address. I hope that we (and glad to see you use this term) will not lose sight and continue working toward that goal. Dennis King Paul,

We definitely missed you at the Global Symposium +5: not only your challenging and stimulating input, but seeing you again and talking to you apart from the Symposium events. As someone who has been involved in some of the more innovative initiatives since 2002 and the lead commentator in the humanitarian community blogisphere, your absence was noted by many attendees at the 2007 Symposium.

http://www.reliefweb.int/symposium/

I am a little burnt out right now and when I get back to Washington DC I will engage here more fully, but let me say that I appreciate and agree with your blog comments about the 2002 Symposium, its modest achievements and the progress that needs to be made. As one of the organizers of the 2002 Symposium and now taking on the role as Rapporteur at this event, it was very gratifying to me to see the new directions that the field of humanitarian information (and knowledge) management has taken in the last five years and having it recognized and promoted at the 2007 Symposium. As you noted, the 2007 Symposium took great strides toward broadening the participation to some newly emerging players, and not just the usual cast of characters and members of the choir, of which I admittedly one.

In 2002, we had more or less 5 years of experience with the Web, GIS, limited availability of satellite imagery, and some new field humanitarian information projects, and the 2002 Symposium focused on this and promoting these “information for information’s sake” systems, tools, and projects. In this week’s Symposium, it was gratifying for me to see that we had gone beyond that….that the focus was on the practical and strategic use of information and analysis, the two-way sharing of information with the affected communities, the ad hoc professionalization of the humanitarian information community, the acceptance of some defacto standards and best practices, some of the positive and negative uses of new technologies that have emerged in the last 5 years, and the new realities that the world and the humanitarian community has begun to face and the role that information/knowledge management has in addressing these challenges.

Knowing you, I perfectly understand your frustration, but am glad to see that you are still participating in the discussion and some of the new initiatives that are taking place. With the new challenges, the prehistoric bureaucracies, and some ingrained obstacles, the effort to save lives, reduce suffering and improve the quality of life through better information management is a serious undertaking and one that requires many simultaneous and complimentary individual and organization efforts to address. I hope that we (and glad to see you use this term) will not lose sight and continue working toward that goal.

Dennis King

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