UN OCHA/Centre for Humanitarian Data

We generated data tool concepts and design priority for UN OCHA’s Humanitarian Data Exchange

Providing the humanitarian data community with cleaning, synthesizing, and reporting tools increased participation, partnering, and dataset sharing.

Introduction of tools improved the quality and access of collected data, and advanced the narrative of data importance.

We partnered with design and data staff within the Centre for Humanitarian Data to articulate the lifecycle of data collection and application. Then we ran concept generation sessions to, create, refine, and explain potential new tools.

Then we interviewed and surveyed hundreds of data practitioners to identify their goals and needs. Perspectives represented practitioner voices from 67 countries, across 12 organization types and all expertise levels.

Our synthesis identified the priorities and adoption potential of the concepts we created. This informed the Centre’s prototype and test priority.

Identifying which tools and behaviors would have the most impact on the work being done. Rationalizing data collection capacity across expertise levels and barrier points in the data lifecycle.

COLLABORATORS

• Alexandra Coym
• John Leonard
• Josh Musick
• Sarah Telford
• Erika Wei
• Yumi Endo
• Roberta Tassi

When we talk, remind me to tell you about…

• Collecting smarter, not harder
• Build for sharing
• Points of intervention in the data lifecycle