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What are the more interesting products that the UN has been working on since early 2004 is DevInfo. It’s one of these software programs to help governments and UN agencies have easy and quick access to social and census information to help their development work. I first came across it in Timor-Leste and didn’t have a first good impression of it because of how complicated and complex it seemed.<\/p>\n
As the website<\/a> says:<\/p>\n DevInfo is a powerful database system for monitoring human development.\u00a0 It is a tool for organizing, storing and presenting data in a uniform way to facilitate data sharing at the country level across government departments, UN agencies and development partners.\u00a0 DevInfo has features that produce tables, graphs and maps for inclusion in reports, presentations and advocacy materials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Coming from a background and work experience on analyzing data and information and using it for planning purposes, the program seemed too strict and inflexible. But as I got to know the program, I began to realize that for people, governments, and organizations that didn’t have the same expertise I had, this program provided a good overview of health, social, population, etc. statistics in forms of graphs, maps and tables. And it gives a good indication of where we are now and where we want to go… keeping track of information and statistics, whether it’s the number of people living in a city, or how much you spend a month, helps to understand your habits and also how to make improvements where necessary.<\/p>\n From my experience, DevInfo and this kind of database-type systems are only as useful as to how much effort is put into maintaining and updating them with new information, AND getting people to use it. Putting together a system or technology is one thing (and usually the easy part)… it’s getting people to use it and understand what it’s for that’s the hard part!<\/p>\n PHOTOS: The Fete de Geneva (Geneva Festival) is an annual thing that happens in July\/August. It’s a time where Geneva turns into a party town with free concerts and events all around the city. Swiss national day is also around this time and it’s not an uncommon sight to see people in red and white (strangely, the same colors as Canada). The Fete ends with a huge fireworks display between Switzerland and a guest country (this year it was India).<\/p>\n What are the more interesting products that the UN has been working on since early 2004 is DevInfo. It’s one of these software programs to help governments and UN agencies have easy and quick access to social and census information to help their development work. I first came across it in Timor-Leste and didn’t have … Continue reading DevInfo – is it about the data or the people?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[179,177,176,90,178],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/P1050973.jpg\" "\\"P1050973\\"")
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