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United Nations Mission in South Sudan GeoStories

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United Nations Mission in South Sudan GeoStories
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The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is a United Nations peacekeeping mission for South Sudan, which became independent on 9 July 2011. UNMISS was established on 8 July 2011 by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1996 (2011) and as of March 2021, it is composed of 19,075 total deployed personnel including 14,222 troops; 217 experts on mission; 1,446 police personnel; 2,228 civilians; 387 staff officers and 388 UN Volunteers, where, it is headquartered in the South Sudanese capital of Juba. Under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, UNMISS is therefore authorized to use all necessary means to implement its mandate which includes: (a) Protection of civilians (b) Creating conditions conducive to the delivery of humanitarian assistance (c) Supporting the Implementation of the Revitalized Agreement and the Peace Process (d) Monitoring, investigating, and reporting on violations of humanitarian and human rights law The mission has decided to extend its public outreach activities in a different method by utilizing geospatial information and using open geospatial tools and data for showcasing some of its important activities in support of above-mentioned mandates, and for this purpose contracted a service provider through bidding exercise and procurement protocols. In this general session talk, speaker(s) will give their presentations on below topics: - UN Open GIS Initiative Background - UNMISS GeoStories architecture, FOSS4G tools and data - Preventing mis/dis-information by extending public outreach - Review selected Geostories in support of UNMISS mandate
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Good morning, I have only four minutes to introduce everything, including maybe myself. So my name is Akbar, I'm a GIS officer working in United Nations mission in South Sudan. We are peacekeeping organization and this is the first time that we are using a story
map or geostory in peacekeeping to showcase our achievements using the open source technology. So I'm not going to read all the UNMIS mandates according to the Security Council resolutions,
but mainly our mandate is to protect civilian creating condition of delivery of humanitarian assistance supporting the implementation of the agreements, monitoring investigation, etc. So far the gateway to public was mostly using like social media, YouTube, Facebook,
but scattered here and there, but with these new solutions we are able to bring everything in one platform like the geo solution provided to us. I will tell you the story how we went through the official bids and procurement process
to select the service provider. So in UN we have different, several strategies for data strategy from the secretary general. We have some other initiatives regarding misinformation, disinformation, how sometimes UN troops they
become a target by armed actors. Of course we are having UN open GIS and we have several other activities which together with these mandates which I showed you in the previous slide is dictating us how to
use geostory for communication and public information. So this use case, I'm not going to technical things, but to just tell you how we use this one and in future we will try to engage more with the private companies or community in open source society to make a kind of contract and offer them kind of projects.
So of course it's very much necessary for the companies to be registered in UN procurement system, otherwise like this project they should be informed, but if they are not registered they cannot attend anything. So this is the general view.
Of course this is based on Geonote, all of you know already how it works. The difference is we are hosting the solution in UN, Microsoft Azure Cloud and finally
we tried and successfully tested using WMS service of our UN maps which is hosted in our global support centre in Italy. And of course for this reason we selected the vendor or service provider to give us
the solution and the entire thing. So our role mainly was to set up all these things together and we have different types of clients. This is how it looks like, one of the stories.
So this is one of the stories, it should go through all clearance from public information from cartographic unit, from cyber security etc. And then finally it will be publicly available.
Right now it's accessible only through the UN internet. So this is one story, another story is about cleared mine hazard area in 2021. And of course it has dashboard and I think you saw it in the others, but the use case
itself, for us to bring this data all together and make it available to public, thank you.