http://prdrse4all.spc.int

BACKGROUND

The Journey

SPC nominated as interim Host of the PRDR SE4ALL from the Combined Transport and Energy Meeting

April 2014

Recruitment of Energy data base Assistant

July 2014

Recruitment of Application Developer for EDDIE

August 2014

• Launch of the PRDR SE4ALL during the SIDS meeting

• Portal redesign from Grails to Drupal

September 2014

3rd PRDR steering committee meeting in the vicinity of the PEAG Meeting – SPC endorsed to be Permanent Host

December 2014

Live production of the revised PRDR SE4ALL Portal

April 2015 What's Next – phase 2• Awareness• Completion of the

dataset and integrated graphing feature

• Map other SPC database systems in to the PRDR and vice versa

• Map the CROP agencies and development partner’s database system into the PRDR

• Creation of country and project site pages

We are Here!!

• The following three pages are accessed by registered users only.

• These pages will be refined further to link to the other pages

• Following function leads users to upload information into the PRDR portal.• Add content• Work Bench • Feature upon clicking provides

access to the upload options in portal

• Workbench is the page to monitor or follow-up on the item that you uploaded in the portal.

• When an item is uploaded, it will go through a workflow process >>>

Feature only available to registered user only to view bio-data information of Author under the Peoples page in

more detail including contacting the author via the portal.

Feature will allows Users with some freedom to perform their own graphic analysis. This is to be

developed as part of the second phase.

Portal development is at this stage – Feature allows for some from of graphical analysis that is

constant – table, linear graph, bar graph, Map

Added features of the Portal

• User login – Administrator, editor 1, editor 2, authenticated user, anonymous user

• Notification process – instant, daily & weekly• PRDR Activity Monitor• Workflow process – Draft – Needs Review – Publish• Email feature within portal to contact registered

members• Spaces– creation of group ( editing a document)• Sharing of interphases to link up into other databases

Monitoring and evaluation

• www.googleanalytics.com (monitors portal purformance)

• www.mandrillapp.com (monitors email exchange purformance)

Lessons Learnt• Challenge in accessing an open source application

developer with DRUPAL background – not many specialist in the region.

• Designing and putting things into application is two different things all together and is time consuming

• Commitment from all levels - Despite the signed commitments made by leaders supporting the free sharing of energy data and information in the PRDR SE4ALL initiative – What ever happens on the ground level is of a different story. Mutual agreements, Standard MOUs or enforcement through legislation has its application depending on country.

Way Forward• Development of a 5-10 year strategy to ensure

the sustainable operation of the Programme• Data sharing agreements/MOUs