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INFORMATICS STUDIO • www.informatics-studio.com
Informatics Studio is a communications research,
user-centered design and technology firm that started
out of Carnegie Mellon University in 1992.
We work with global corporations, government agencies,
nonprofits, and NGOs that focus on human development
and health worldwide.
We utilize systems thinking in solving complex commu-
nication and information management challenges.This
analytical approach defines system strengths and weak-
nesses and develops specifications for innovating new and
better ways of solving complex challenges of managing,
monitoring, and interpreting complex information.
We work primarily in six domains:
• International Development
• Economics
• Health + Life Sciences
• Education + Training
• Energy + Environment
• Corporate + Organizational Strategic Communications
Informatics Studio: Who We Are

• Technology + User Audit, Evaluation, Strategy
• System Architecture
• User-centered Design + Development
• Knowledge Management Systems
• Learning Management Platforms
• Training + Knowledge Products
• Program Management Tools + Applications
• Monitoring + Evaluation Tools
• Data Collection, DataVisualization + Decision Support
• Collaboration + Community Development Platforms
• Web Design + Development
• Program Branding, Behavioral Marketing + Strategic
Communications
Informatics Studio: What We Do

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KM Portal: Systems Planning
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01. User Types + Roles
Who is using the site
03. Access Model + Taxonomies
How we can connect users to content
02. Content Core
What we are connecting users with
04. Information Architecture
What is the organization that brings everything
together
05. Wireframes
How to present content, functionality and navigational
schema to users
Research and Development: Primary Component Definitions
01. User Types + Roles
Operations
Business Development
Project Delivery
• Corporate Communications
• Executive Leadership Team
• Finance and Accounting
• Global Operations
• Human Resources and Recruiting
• Information Technology
• Knowledge Management
• Asia Pacific Business Unit
• Europe, Middle East, and Africa
Business Unit
• United States Business Unit
• Strategic Growth Business Unit
Corporate Groups Business Units
User Types + Roles
The first planning step is to define user types and roles. Based on an
understand of who our audiences are, we will be able to plan meaningful
organizing principles to create clear and intuitive paths to the information
they seek and tasks they wish to perform.

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- RFPs
- Capture Plan
- Proposals
- Business Proposal
- Technical Proposal
Corporate Groups
- Executive Leadership Team
- Business Unit Leadership Teams
- APAC Business Unit Leadership
Team
- EMEA Business Unit
Leadership Team
- Strategic Growth Business Unit
Leadership Team
- US Business Unit Leadership
Team
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- Security
- Internal Audit
- Contracts and Compliance
- Project Operations
- Policies and Guidelines
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- Marketing
- Internal Communications
- Facilities Management
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- Financial Management
- Tax & Compliance
- Treasury
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- Recruitment
- Benefits
- Employee Relations
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- Performance Management
- Insurance
- Information Technology
- Knowledge Management
- Recording and Documenting Project
Outcomes
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- Technical Documentation
- Technical Practice Areas
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- USBU Projects
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Environment and Natural Resources
- Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Area
Management
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Climate Change Mitigation
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Disaster Resilience
- Energy Resource Management
- Environment and Social Safeguards
- Extractives Resource Management
- Forest Resource Management
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Carbon Finance Mechanisms
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Resource Management
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Sustainable Land Management (SLM)
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- Policies,Environmental Protection Agencies
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- Resource Allocation
- Resource Mobilization
Education
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Materials Production
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- Scholarships Administration and Management
- Secondary Education
- Teacher Training
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- Eduction Sector Policy and Planning
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- Agri-business
- Agro-processing and Quality Control
- Agricultural Market Development
- Agriculture
- Crop Production
- Seed Production and
Testing
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- Fodder
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- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Food Systems and Value Chains
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- Land Rights
- Land Reform
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management
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- Animal Husbandry and
Breeding
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- Dairy
- Meat
- Veterinary Services
- Veterinary Public Health/One
Health
- Animal Disease Control
- Animal Health
- Livestock Production
- Livestock Value
- Veterinary Epidemiology
- Veterinary Public Health
- Veterinary Services
- Sustainable Rural Livelihoods
- Agricultural Development
- Agricultural Economics
- Agricultural policy
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Growth and Livelihoods
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Reform
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Management
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Integration
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- Infrastructure-Transportation
- Investment Climate Reform
- Investment Promotion
- Local Economic Development
- Market Analysis,Segmentation,and Growth
- Private Sector Development and
Competitiveness and Fragile States
- Private Sector Provisions of Basic Services
- Public and Private Partnerships
- Rural Economic Development & Livelihoods
- Sector,Value Chain,and Market Development
(M4P)
- Small and Medium Enterprise (SME)
Development
- Supply Chain Management
- Trade and Regional Integration
- Trade Policy Development and Capacity
Building
- TVET/VET Skills
- Value Chains
- Accounting & Finance
- Administration
- Development
- Economic Development
- Emerging Markets
- Extractive Industries Governance
- Financial Management
- Financial Services
- Goods and Services
- International Development
- Local Economic Development
- Logistics
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- Management
- Microfinance
- Poverty and Inequality
- Private Sector Development
- Rural Livelihoods
- Semiconductor Manufacturing
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- Telecommunications
- Trade Promotion
- Transport Infrastructure
- Voucher and Cash Transfer Systems
Governance,Law,and Justice
- Administrative/Civil Service Reform
- Anti-Corruption
- Civil Society Engagement and Support (GRM)
- Decentralization
- Demarcation and Boundaries
- Disarmament,Demobilization and
Reintegration (DDR)
- Election Support and Reform
- Empowerment & Social Development
- Government Reform in Fragile,Transitional and -
Conflict-Affected Settings
- Participatory/Democratic Governance
- Police Reform
- Public Financial Management
- Public-Private Partnerships
- Security,Justice,and Rule of Law
- Taxation
- Advocacy and Coalition Building
- Behavior Change Communication
- Center of government reform
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- Combination HIV Prevention
- Community Mobilization & Empowerment
- Constitutional Reform
- Corporate Governance
- Democracy
- Democratic Governance
- Good Governance
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- Legislature
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- Peace and Conflict
- Policy and Planning
- Policy Development and Implementation
- Policy Dialogue
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- Public Administration
- Public Financial Management
- Rule of Law
- Security & Justice
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- Human Rights
- Human Trafficking
- Male Involvement
- Sexual Minorities
- Stigma and Discrimination
- Women's Participation and Leadership
- Empowerment of socially excluded groups
- Gender Studies
- Intercultural Communication
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Management
- Project Management
- Project Monitoring and Evaluation
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- Strategy and Planning
- Surveys and Surveillance
- Training, Capacity Building and Skills
Enhancement
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- Middle Africa
- Northern Africa
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Americas
- Caribbean
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- South America
- America
Asia
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- Eastern Asia
- Southern Asia
- South-Eastern Asia
- Western Asia
Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Northern Europe
- Southern Europe
- Western Europe
Oceania
- Australia and New Zealand
- Melanesia
- Micronesia
- Polynesia
- Communications
- Executive Leadership Team
- Finance and Accounting
- Operations
- Human Resources and Recruiting
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- Knowledge Management
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Project Code: VUVET
Project Name: Vanuatu Technical and Vocational Education and Training Sector
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THE NEXT GENERATION
The next generation has the
capacity to provide innovative
solutions to help end global
poverty in their lifetime.
The next generation has the capacity to
provide innovative solutions to help end
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We are enhanced by the
leading nonproﬁt organizations,
corporations, and foundations
that support our young people
in leading the charge to global
peace and prosperity.
Through Youth Speak Up on Poverty
and Peace, together, we are providing
young people the opportunity to share
their innovative solutions to end global
poverty and create a more peaceful and
prosperous world.
“Informing the youth at an early
age on important global issues,
engaging them in the democratic
process, and encouraging them to
vote is critical for creating a world
where peace prevails.”
—Rosario Dawson, Actress, Singer,
Writer, and Producer
THE CHALLENGE
The 2013 Global Youth
Initiative Essay Contest.
If you are in grades 6-12, we are
challenging you through Youth Speak
Up on Poverty and Peace to think
critically about new ways to eliminate
global poverty and create a more
peaceful and prosperous world. You
provide a new perspective on how to
tackle this important issue, which can
help policy makers and international

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The Role of STEM Education in Improving
the Tri-State Region’s Workforce
49%
Only out of 5 parents1
have talked to someone at
their child’s school about STEM
think their school has an
emphasis on STEM
have heard of STEM
of students surveyed say that
they have heard of STEM.
31%
of students surveyed say someone
at their school had talked to them
about STEM.
Has anyone at your school talked to you
and / or your child about STEM?
Does your school have an emphasis
on STEM?
25%
20%
Have you heard of STEM? 42%
25%
21%
46%
22%
17%
38%
29%
23%
44%
50%
25%
75%
Region Rural Suburban Urban
Parents’ awareness of and
understanding about STEM
education is low throughout
the region. It is at its lowest
in rural areas.
“STEM”—defined as an emphasis on science, technology, engineer-
ing and math in education—is simply not part of parents’ vocabulary.
Teachers and counselors report quizzical looks from parents when
discussing the subject. Even those parents familiar with the term
displayed a lack of understanding about its objectives and failed to
associate many technology- and technical-related jobs and careers
with STEM. This low awareness and understanding of STEM can
be traced to lack of communications about it—few schools have
broached the subject with parents.
02.
Parents Haven’t Heard Much About STEM Education
and They Have a Poor Understanding of It
Low Awareness of STEM Education Among Parents
Few Parents Have Heard of STEM and Schools are Not Talking
Awareness of STEM education among parents in the
region is low: only 42% heard of the term STEM, 25%
said their children’s school has an emphasis on STEM
education, and 20% recall discussing STEM with
school officials.
Awareness is lowest among parents in rural locations
across all of these measures. Noteworthy is that in a poll
conducted among 100 middle and high school students,
less than half have heard of STEM and less than one-third
recall talking to a school official about it.
8
Work to Do
Local Schools Can do Better and the U.S. Needs to Catch Up in Science and Math
Parents give their children’s schools a C in preparing them for jobs and careers, lower than the grade they give schools
for preparing children for higher education (C+). The awarding of these average grades could be related to the attitude
that the U.S. is falling behind other industrialized countries in educating our children in science and math (69%). Parents
in urban locations (80%) are most likely to espouse this view.
Parents Grade Their Children’s Schools and Compare US Math and Science Education to Others
DF BC A
DF BC A
DF BC A
DF BC A
Job / Career
Higher EducationC+
C
Job / Career
Higher EducationC+
C
Job / Career
Higher EducationC+
C
Job / Career
Higher EducationB-
C
Same as others23%
Far above others8%
Far below others69%
23%
69%
8%
Region
28%
65%
7%
Rural
22%
71%
7%
Suburban
11%
80%
9%
Urban
Same as others28%
Far above others7%
Far below others65%
Same as others22%
Far above others7%
Far below others71%
Same as others11%
Far above others9%
Far below others80%
Region
Suburban
Rural
Urban
28
Work to Do
50%25% 75%
College-bound students
Want careers in those ﬁelds
Going to technical school
Going to community college
Going to the military
Starting jobs after high school
When asked which types of students should take
advanced or higher-level math and science classes like
calculus, physics and chemistry, fewer than half of parents
identified students attending a 4-year college or students
who want careers in those fields (43% for both). The
An inference from this data is that when parents say that
most students should have access to STEM education,
they are NOT thinking about STEM as advanced or higher-
level math and science. Many parents are intimidated
by calculus, physics and chemistry and fewer than half
believe that even college-bound students should take
these courses. If STEM education is equated with taking
these subjects, many parents may not encourage their
children to take them.
48%
29%
of students surveyed say that
STEM classes are only for students
who will attend a 4 year college.
of students surveyed say that STEM
classes are for everyone.
percentages are much lower for other types of students.
Noteworthy is that in a poll conducted among 100 middle
and high school students, less than half (48%) said that
STEM class are for the college bound and only 29% said
these classes were for all students.
Few Students Should Take Advanced Math or Science
Advanced Math and Science Not Even for the College-Bound
27
The Role of STEM Education in Improving
the Tri-State Region’s Workforce
06.
Soft Support for STEM Education for All Students
Most parents “somewhat” agree with the statement that all students should have access to STEM education, but support
for this sentiment could be considered “soft” given the low number of parents who strongly agree with the following
statements.
STEM “Possibly” for Certain Types of Students:
Parents Say STEM Education is Only for Some Children
It is important for all children, whether they are gifted or not, to have access to STEM education.
Somewhat
Agree
Strongly
Disagree
Strongly
Agree
Somewhat
Disagree
43% 47% 8% 2%
27% 52% 16% 5%
24% 52% 21% 3%
It’s important for children to have STEM education even if they aren’t interested in a job in those ﬁelds.
It’s important for children to have STEM education even if they aren’t going to college.
The current language around STEM
education is not resonating with
parents.
While parents clearly and highly value problem-solving skills, critical thinking and
collaboration for their children, they are not making the connection between STEM and
these skills. More often, parents relate STEM education to advanced mathematics and science,
which they want their children to have access to, but do not feel is necessary for all children to
be successful in life. Rather, these rigorous types of courses are perceived to be for the
college-bound students who intend to make a career in these areas.

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