Smart systems
- 2. Introduction Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention Unit (UNDP-Kenya) Formed after Post Election Violence Unit works with the Government of Kenya (NSC)
- 3. National Steering Committee (NSC) Conflict Management and Peacebuilding Hybrid Interagency Body Government Civil Society Hosted by the Ministry of Internal Security District Peace Committees
- 4. Traditional concept of CEWS Early Warning Information are mixed together, making analysis extremely difficult Disorganized information sourcing
- 9. Timeliness of EW information CEWARN’s mandate Reports from the field took up to 3 weeks before it was comprehensible. Overloaded with information. Lack of information- gathering framework
- 10. Fire Fighting… Prevention has turned into firefighting
- 14. Post Election Violence 2008
- 15. Almost every election in Kenya has been violent Waki Commission report on the PEV Tribal discontentment and economic despair Political ethnic benefits Ignorance of indicators Incitement to violence by eminent persons.
- 16. The Media was an arena for peace and conflict updates
- 17. Crowdsourcing tools used during PEV Kenya Blogging Ushahidi Facebook
- 29. 4G ICT for CEWS 1 St & 2 nd Generation (Top down State centric) 3 rd Generation (Managed by NGOs) 4 th Generation (Mix of free open source software and SMS)
- 32. Rationale: Media Sources Already existing reporters on field Google Alerts Google Maps Newspapers Radio TV
- 35. National Information sources: Peace Reports UN Security Reports Internal Security Reports
- 37. ‘ Open ended reports’ to ‘Indicator based multiple choice’ Reports are instantaneously graphed Customized to the location of reporting Low bandwidth interface Each template of reporting is divided into sections of interest
- 38. Qualitative information to Quantitative information Indicator: A statement to which the user responds based on their observations Template: A group of indicators Cluster: A group of templates (Pastoralist, Rural and Urban)
- 39. One size fits all?
- 42. Development of Customized Indicators Indicators were developed using local peace monitors on the ground Finally agreed upon using the Delphi Method
- 58. Situation Room (NSC) Analysis Video Link Capability to the field monitors Panel Interventions Media Updates Visualization of conflict trends
- 61. 3 Interfaces for the CEWS Public Interface (Amani Kenya @ 108) Field Interface NSC Interface
- 65. Lessons learned Early Response to an Early Warning (auto response?) UWIANO success from 2010 Participatory EW (people power) cannot be ignored as part of a larger structure Pilot testing showed local monitors were encouraged by ‘auto response’ options
- 66. New Developments February 2011 Egypt’s revolution Hillary Clinton announced that the state department is looking into spending $20-30 million to promote ‘ voice to people’ and avoid internet repression. Early Warning accountability of information
- 67. Questions?
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