The Panos Information Portal & Online
Database
Holiday Inn Resort & Spa, Montego Bay, Jamaica
June 19, 2014 – June 20, 2014
Presenter: Dr. Maurice McNaughton – Mona School of Business & Management, UWI
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Background
◦ As a regional media and communications organization that
works to empower the most marginalized and vulnerable
persons in the region, Panos Caribbean helps journalists to
cover sustainable development issues that are overlooked
and misunderstood.
◦ The Internet and new Social media such as twitter, facebook
and youtube are key components of Panos’ media and
communications portfolio.
◦ Panos is seeking to upgrade and enhance it’s web presence
and develop information management platforms in order to
provide more effective mechanisms for online database
repositories, web-based information dissemination and
training, and a variety of audiovisual and data visualization
capabilities.
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Online database management system to represent
various categories of individuals and institutions:
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Research institutions, local expertise
Media, journalists and journalistic networks (CEPF, IDRC)
CSOs and CBOs
Researchers, Policymakers
Indexed, searchable, catalog of electronic resource
materials
◦ Upload electronic documents, and other multimedia content
◦ Provide meta-information for indexed search functionality
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Contact/Constituency Management System
◦ Targeted Mailings based on categories, groups or interests,
◦ Event Management - Mailings, Online Registration,
Participant confirmations
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Deliver a high-quality, virtual learning
experience to remote students/participants
◦ Support sharing of slides (PDF and PPT), video, chat,
audio-conference during a webinar session
◦ Record webinar sessions (slides + audio + chat), as
well as video streams for later playback on demand
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Ad Hoc Video Conferencing
◦ Staff meetings, virtual office
Resource
Databases
uc Panos-Admin Use Cases
Search/View Contacts
Create/Upload
Electronic
Documents
Document
Library
Create/Manage
Ev ents, Online
Registration
Manage Contact
Information
(Create/Edit)
Create/Moderate
Webinars
Communicate w ith
Contacts (email)
Panos-Admin
Register for Ev ents /
Attend Webinars
Print Contact
Directory
Contact
Management
Mass Mailing Contact
Groups
Event
Management
uc Actors
Panos staff members that have full
access to all information/data on
the site on a read-only basis.
Those members of Panos
constituency that will be given
limited access to some information
on the portal (eg. directory of
contacts, documents, etc.)
Panos-View er
Panos staff members with access
to view/edit/create all database
content and create/moderate
webinars. Responsible for local
administrator functions.
External Partners
External clients that can Register
for events and / or attend Webinars,
but can't access any other
information on the portal
Panos-Admin
Technical systems administrator
responsible for technical support,
security for the site, etc.
External Clients
System
Administrator
Access: http://panosip.org/ OR link from http://panoscaribbean.org/
Category
Description
Database
Institutions
Research Institutions, Local Expertise
Networks, CSOs and CBOs
44 institutions,
10 countries
Media
Media Houses, Journalists and Journalistic
Networks
100 contacts,
14 countries
People
Researchers and Policy makers,
communicators, general contacts
690 contacts,
20 countries
Electronic
Catalogue
Newsletters, Reports, Publications and other
Multimedia content
13 documents
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Flexible Search categories:
◦ Institutional Type: NGO, CBO, CSO, Media, FUNDER, Research Institution,
Government,
◦ Contact Type: Researchers, Policymaker, Consultant, Communicator
◦ Media Contacts: Media-houses, Journalists, Journalistic networks
◦ Expertise: Agriculture, Artiste, Biodiversity, Child Rights, Climate Change,
Communication, Data journalism, Environment, Education, Fisheries,
Gender, HIV/AIDS, Insurance, Public Health
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Custom mailing templates, mailing lists
Targeted Mailings based on categories,
groups or interests
Scheduled Subscription Mailings
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Event Management
◦ Scheduling
◦ Mailings – Notification & Diseminate information to
participants
◦ Online Registration, Participant confirmations
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Online Web Conferencing / Webinars
Sharing through Social Media
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Expanding library of electronic resource materials including
documents, and other multimedia content: Reports, Research
papers, White papers, Best Practice, etc.
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The Panos Information Portal will enable..
Not just Contact management, but Community
Engagement
Wisdom of the Crowd…
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Self-service updates
Crowdsourcing
On-line surveys
Peer-to-peer sharing, interaction & exchange