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SIMSSurge Information Management in the IFRC
*International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
NetHope Crisis Informatics WebinarThursday, July 28th 2016
Kat Hicks, GIS Analyst, British Red Cross
Introductions
Introductions
Background in geography
Based in British Red Cross for past
two years
Involved in both development and
response work of SIMS
Feel free to get in touch: [email protected] or @katmhicks
What is SIMS?
What is SIMS?
Stands for Surge Information Management Support
Network of IM/GIS specialists based in American and
British Red Cross
Remote response tool to provide operations managers with
information management
See our draft website for more information: http://rcrcsims.org/
BASICS
What is SIMS?
See our draft website for more information: http://rcrcsims.org/
PROCESS
Activation Response
Disaster
Surge team
alert
Request for
SIMS
SIMS
activated
Transition
Coordinator
assigned
Establish
support
Phase out
Hire delegate
Continued
remote
Close out
What is SIMS?
See our draft product guide here: http://kathicks.github.io/sims_cookbook
RESULT
How do we work?
Innovations, processes and team building
How do we work? PEOPLE
Remote capacity
Volunteers
Mixed skill set
FIELD
REMOTE
(Team building)
How do we work? PROCESS
Iteration
Conversation
Network
Read more on some of these developments here: medium.com/@simon_b_johnson
(Ongoing innovations)
How do we work? TOOLS
Tool agnostic
Open source
Kanban with Trello
TO DO
Sign up to Trello for free at: www.trello.com
DOING DONE
What are our lessons learned?
Best practices and ongoing work
What is our main lesson learned?
Tools
Process
People
“Information management is not a
technology problem, it's a
people and process problem.”
Best practice is to prioritise
people over platforms.
What are our key challenges?
Scaling
Data literacy
Handover
Access full list of tips here: http://simonbjohnson.github.io/im-tips/
What are our next steps?
Workshops
Skills shadowing
Data collation
And tech innovations: forecasting, identifying missing base maps & microsites
Read more on some of these developments here: medium.com/@simon_b_johnson
Thanks
Further information
http://rcrcsims.org/
http://kathicks.github.io/sims_cookbook
http://simonbjohnson.github.io/im-tips/
https://medium.com/@simon_b_johnson
Featured tools
http://trello.com