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		<title>A Georgian Holiday</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/08/31/a-georgian-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my holiday is well and truly over, and I&#8217;m in Georgia for UNICEF on a ridiculously short contract, providing information management support for the WASH Cluster. Things are never that simple, of course, and so the work has turned out to be significantly more challenging than I expected. Right off the bat, the post-conflict [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More SDI please</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/06/23/more-sdi-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Databases]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those crazy jokers at the UN Joint Logistics Centre have just released version 2.0 of the UN Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport database schema, based on feedback received since last September&#8217;s release and developed with WFP and Ithaca (good to see that partnership being productive). This version covers an XML schema, the schema documentation, template [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In which I feel insecure about biometrics</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/04/07/in-which-i-feel-insecure-about-biometrics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/04/07/in-which-i-feel-insecure-about-biometrics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/?p=253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As well as the recent problems with public transport schemes, there&#8217;s been no small concern about whether biometrics are as secure as our governments tell us. Now The Register tells us that a hacker group in Germany has published the fingerprint of Wolfgang Schauble, Germany&#8217;s interior minister, and promises that this could be used to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Human Rights on the Buses</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/03/21/human-rights-on-the-buses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2008/03/21/human-rights-on-the-buses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Collection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Public transport doesn&#8217;t often provide pointers for the humanitarian community. The recent cracking of the London OysterCard (following hot on the heels of the earlier crack of the Dutch transit card system) came as no surprise to digital security experts, but it should teach us fundamental lessons about information security and personal privacy issues. Security [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proxy Indicators, or Making It Up As We Go Along</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/16/proxy-indicators-or-making-it-up-as-we-go-along/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/12/16/proxy-indicators-or-making-it-up-as-we-go-along/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2007 10:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s inevitably a data drought when you&#8217;re working in an emergency in a developing country &#8211; either the coverage isn&#8217;t good, the historical record is patchy or the accuracy is questionable. In many cases, the data simply isn&#8217;t there &#8211; nobody has collected it in the past or is collecting it at present. Where they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humanitarian Logistics: Getting Ahead in Spatial Data Infrastructure</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/09/16/humanitarian-logistics-getting-ahead-in-spatial-data-infrastructure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/09/16/humanitarian-logistics-getting-ahead-in-spatial-data-infrastructure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Databases]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Standards for data management in the sector have been a headache since the beginning. Standards are essential for sharing data between agencies, whether at HQ or field level, but the politics involved in developing them have frankly defeated most previous attempts. Recent discussions in the IASC sub-group on information management have started the ball rolling [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ugandan Displaced join Somali Refugees in Google Earth</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/06/17/ugandan-displaced-join-somali-refugees-in-google-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/06/17/ugandan-displaced-join-somali-refugees-in-google-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/06/17/ugandan-displaced-join-somali-refugees-in-google-earth/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe they could form a support group? I know, I know, that&#8217;s not the sort of thing we&#8217;re supposed to joke about. Yan Rebois of CartONG has written to let me know that their displaced mapping project with UNHCR is now public, an interesting application based on Google Maps, for general use by humanitarian organisations. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Excel, fantastic</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/01/11/excel-fantastic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2007/01/11/excel-fantastic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One thing you&#8217;ll notice when you visit country offices and field sites is that everybody uses Excel for everything. Inventory? Excel. Fleet management? Excel. Health monitoring? Excel. This used to frustrate me &#8211; why the hell didn&#8217;t these people use Access, or maybe even a proper database? Eventually I realised that they were right and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>ECB4 Report Launch: Information and Technology Requirements</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2006/09/07/ecb4-report-launch-information-and-technology-requirements/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2006/09/07/ecb4-report-launch-information-and-technology-requirements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil-Military]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emergency Telecommunications]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.humanitarian.info/2006/09/07/ecb4-report-launch-information-and-technology-requirements/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What a marathon.  Although we actually released the report at the time of the Seattle workshop earlier this year, it was always the plan that we would launch a nicely-formatted final package &#8211; it just took a bit longer than planned &#8211; and you can now download the complete five-part Report at the ECB website [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>GapMinder: development statistics for normal people</title>
		<link>http://www.humanitarian.info/2006/06/11/gapminder-development-statistics-for-normal-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.humanitarian.info/2006/06/11/gapminder-development-statistics-for-normal-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Databases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a big fan of Edward Tufte. Most normal people don&#8217;t get as excited by data visualisation as much as I do. So what kind of tools can Web2.0 provide to help make some of the more critical data more accessible? Developed and managed by the Gapminder Foundation in Sweden (and hosted by Google), Gapminder [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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