Presentation from Olivier Sarrat, Groupe URD during the Foss for Humanity Track at the OWF 2012 in Paris - 23 oct.12

2. open source antidote trial to
the aid sector infoxication issue
Olivier Sarrat

3. Episode 1
The aid sector infoxication issue

4. Aid sector information sharing requirements:
- internal information
- information with donors
- information for coordination
- information with the sector in general
…
- information with the « beneficiaries »!

5. Infoxication leads to:
- less time spend actually on the projects
- lack of clear information organization implies poor
sharing of lessons learnt
- lesser quality

6. What could be done?

7. Episode 2
The NGO adoption issue

8. August 2008
A group of NGOs gathers itself
to solve their internal infoxication issue

9. - NGOs are main bridge between international
humanitarian system and the beneficiaries
- lack of time and infoxication leads to reluctance
to adopt additional tools
- high turn-over rate leads to difficulty on adoption
- lack of funds to be spend out of operational
projects

10. What could be done?

11. Episode 3
Sigmah pilote project, a new hope!

12. Sigmah Steering Cooperative

13. Groupe URD:
• Evaluation, Research, Training
& Organizational support
• Created in 1993, staff of around 20 people
• Offices in France (HQ), Chad, Haiti
More information on www.urd.org

14. Flexible

19. Opportunity

20. Indicators management

22. June 2011
Sigmah v1.0 is released

23. Episode 4
Sigmah project, next steps

24. Open

25. Google Summer of Code 2012

26. Autumn 2012
Release of Sigmah v1.2
& new adoptions

27. To be continued...

28. Do you have lessons to share with us?
Do you have any questions?
More on www.sigmah.org

29. Thanks !
Presentation at OWF2012:
open source antidote trial to
Olivier Sarrat
the aid sector infoxication issue