archives: The Standards Working Group

Initial Coordinators:

Dennis King (UNICEF, New York) Chairperson Dr. Jean-Yves Bouchardy Chief of the Geographic/Mapping Unit of the UNHCR UNHCR, Geneva Email: BOUCHARD@unhcr.ch

Goal:

The Working Group was the body that considered measures to standardize and harmonize disaster information to ensure quality, reliability and usability.

Deliverables at  GDIN2001, Canberra, Australia. March 2001:

Identification of standards and standards organizations that GDIN should support or be linked to.

Initial Participants:

Dennis King (UNICEF, New York), Chairperson Dr. Jean-Yves Bouchardy, Chief of the Geographic/Mapping Unit of the UNHCR, UNHCR, Geneva Dr. Luigi Fusco, Head of Multi-mission Infrastructure Section, RSED, European Space Agency, ESA-ESRIN Professor James A. Farley, Technical Director, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST), University of Arkansas Patricia Jocius, Emergency Coordinator for San Mateo, California Nigel Peachey, World Health Organisation (WHO), Health Information Network for Advanced Planning (HINAP), Department of Emergency and Humanitarian Action

Reports and Links:

Business Plan (224K Word Doc) Ankara Declaration (100K Word Doc) Structured Humanitarian Assistance Reporting (SHARE) --Dennis King Report of the Standards Committee SHARE Structured Humanitarian Assistance Reporting A Summary Description and Requirements for Geo-referenced Data Collection and Mapping to Support Humanitarian Assistance Operations Geographic Information Support Team (GIST) --Dennis King (UNICEF, New York). Chairperson GDIN Standards and Information Sharing Procedures: The UNHCR perspective --Dr. Jean-Yves Bouchardy (Chief of the Geographic/Mapping Unit of the UNHCR, UNHCR, Geneva). The Role of Standards in Support of Disaster Management -- James A. Farley, Technical Director, Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies. (CAST) Emphasis on "Open Computing Technologies as Infrastructure for Disaster Management"