Page Comparison

Overview

All OCHA staff have access to the OCHA Global Office (OCHA GO) suite of Microsoft 365 Products (Access, Excel, Onenote, Outlook, Powerpoint, Word, and Skype for Business).  OCHA is currently (May 2018) working on a shared drive solution that will include a combination of OneDrive and SharePoint.  However, an IM unit needs additional software to process, analyze and disseminate information.

Software for Collection & Management

• Kobo Toolbox - a suite of free tools for field data collection
• OneDrive + Teamsites (work in progress but will be included in OCHA GO)
• Dropbox, Google Drive (only to be used if combination of OneDrive and Teamsites is not sufficient)

Software for Processing & Analysis

• Excel (included in OCHA GO)
• Access (included in OCHA GO)
• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • ESRI - ArcGIS - 
  • QGIS free and open source, available in English, French, Spanish, and Italian 
• Business Intelligence
  • PowerBI
  • Tableau

Software for Dissemination

• Product preparation
  • Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape
  • Tableau or PowerBI
  • InDesign
  • MsWord (included in OCHA GO)
• Data and product sharing
  • HDX - Humanitarian Data Exchange, platform for sharing humanitarian data 
  • HR.info - Humanitarian Response.info - platform for sharing operational information in a humanitarian response
  • Reliefweb - platform for sharing key information, including the latest reports, maps, infographics and videos from trusted sources.
  • Humanitarian Kiosk
  • MailChimp

Other Software

• Skype - freeware
• OneNote - (included in OCHA GO) - digital note-taking app
• Outlook (included in OCHA GO) email

The list of tools normally used for an IMU can be found under the tools section in this toolbox

Procedure for Procurement of Hardware and Software

• Please see this page on OCHANet (OCHA login required) https://ochanet.unocha.org/AS/Information_Technology_Services/Pages/OCHA-ICT-Standards.aspx for more detailed explanations