Project proposal geospatialweb'asedcis

Towards A Geospatial Web-Based Community Information System

As An Efficient Approach for Social Service Delivery Information in Lower

Local Government

Project Proposal Presentationby

Justus Bernard MuhweziReg. No.: 2012/HD18/252U

Contents of the presentation

● Introduction● Literature review● Related Work● Methodology● Conclusion

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Introduction of the study

● Introduction● Background of the study● Objectives

○ General objectives○ Specific objectives

● Scope● Statement of the problem● Significance● Theoretical framework

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Introduction

● project (hereafter called study) ● explore the use of available Information

Communication Technology (ICT) platforms/ environments/software/hardware applicable in the lower local governments setting

● develop a geospatial web-based Community Information System (geospatialCIS) to facilitate efficient provision of community information products and services in a user-friendly and timely manner

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Background of the study

● International Monetary Fund (2003) recommendations to Ugandan Govt

● Poverty Eradication Action Plan (2005) findings and action plans

● Rural Development Strategy (2005) targeting rural areas

● National Development Plan (2010) priority areas of implementation

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Statement of the problem

● the current functionality of CIS infrastructure is not efficient in production of community information products and services

● long process of delivering information is not timely and user-friendly

● the return-on-investment in information has not been harnessed in favor of rural community planning and decision making, since CIS was initiated in 2005

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General objective

● General objective of the study○ to develop a geospatialCIS that will integrate

geospatial, web-based and database technologies into CIS realization for improved information update and production, visualization, presentation, sharing, communication, management and utilization.

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Specific objectives

● Specific objectives include:○ to construct a CIS spatial database (back-end

application) ○ to develop a user-friendly multimedia website

(front-end application)○ to integrate geospatial technologies as a service

linked to the back-end CIS spatial DBMS and front-end website application

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Scope

● limited to the geospatialCIS design comprising of geospatial web-based and database technologies, adequately enabled with capability for data management, visualization, user collaborative tools, information production and sharing based on one selected CIS implementing district site of Rakai

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Scope area

Significance

● to contribute towards improvement of efficiency and increase in effectiveness of the CIS establishment and development

● enhanced CIS will facilitate regular and sustainable monitoring of government, non-government organizations (NGOs) and other poverty eradication initiatives among communities for timely appropriate evidence-based policy formulation and decision making

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Theoretical framework

● Key concepts: web site, geospatial, CIS, database, GIS, ICTs, programming languages, scripting, maps, web hosting, blogs, multimedia,

● system development life cycle (SDLC) method for prototype system development

● three tier architecture model as the preferred model for prototype design

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Community Information System Process Model

People

InformationSystem

BusinessSolution

BusinessChallenges

Organization

Technology

> Develop a geospatial web-based community information system strategy> Design new products and services> Manage and administer production and services

> Consolidate & analyse CIS preferences/requirements> Enter & serve data/information via web interface> Provide information display, visualization & exchange capabilities> Produce intelligible maps, reports, tables, graphs, pictures, videos, information

> Improved efficiency in Community Information production> User-friendly and timely provision of community services and products> Increase in utilization and effectiveness of the CIS for community development> Improved community monitoring and evaluation of programmes & projects

> Variability of internet connectivity > Inadequate financial, human and physical resources> Low ICT literacy rate and appreciation> Fragmented CIS data

> Collaborate with CIS stakeholders and partners> Revise community information system production processes> Provide manpower and financial resources>Procure Web hosting site

> Use relational database technology> Use GIS services platforms> Use web technologies to integrate the system components> Stabilize IT infrastructure introduction|literaturereview | relatedwork | methodology | conclusion

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Contents of the presentation

Introduction● Literature review● Related Work● Methodology

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Literature review

● Introduction● Database technologies● Web technologies● Geospatial technologies● Research assumptions● Study questions

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Introduction

● the right of access to information to all citizens (Uganda Constitution 1995)

● A big percentage of population are rural subsistence farmers who find it hard to access information (UBOS Census report 2002)

● G2C, G2B & G2G connectivity programme through National Backbone Infrastructure (ICT 2006)

● ICTs are a tool for poverty alleviation in developing nations (Ssewanyana 2007)

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Database technologies

● many secure database management systems both under open source and off-shelf software applications

● desired DB includes that which would enable the integration and configuration less cumbersome to end user and light enough to do the work

● deployable by low-cost website hosting● allowing multi-user capability,and capable of

inputting and outputting information in user friendly manner

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Web technologies

● various programming language environs that are deployable and recommended in modern dynamic websites including PHP5, HTML5, .NET, ASP.NET, JavaScript, AJAX, etc

● there a variety of internet service providers that connect to the different rural areas in the country

● the different browsers accessible produce varying results when it come to geo-info, latest being based on Web 2.X series

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Geospatial technologies

● limiting factor to the utilization of geospatial applications is due to the initial high cost of purchase of software and set-up requirements of speed and memory for dedicated hardware

● alternative open-source software should be tested for accessibility and functionality and ease of manipulation and analysis

● installation and adaptability to local lower government computer environments

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Research assumptions

● Availability of timely data collection from local government rural communities

● Available and accessible internet connectivity at the selected sites of the study

● Adequate financial, human and physical resources for the study

● Information services and products will serve the purpose of the local government community rural development and rural initiative projects.

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Study questions

● Can the present CIS be enhanced to capture data in a user-friendly, accurate and timely manner?

● Can the existing web technologies be adopted in CI production to support development planning and at the various levels of local government?

● Can appropriate geospatial tools be integrated into the current CIS infrastructure to generate intelligible and evidence-based products and services for rural community development?

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Contents of the presentation

Introduction Literature review● Related Work● Methodology

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Related work

● Canadian Geospatial Data Infrastructure GeoSearch, an enabling technology for the users to freely search for, identify, visualize and obtain basic geographic and demographic data for areas in Canada (UN Report 2009)

● WB report 2010, Uganda has not embraced fully current trends in ICTs especially open source geospatial web-based technologies

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Contents of the presentation

Introduction Literature review Related Work● Methodology

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Methodology

● Introduction● Requirements' specification

○ Primary data○ Secondary data

● System analysis and design● Implementation● Testing● Packaging● Documentation

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Introduction

● Case study methodology true essence, exploration and research method that investigates contemporary real-life phenomenon through detailed contextual analysis of a limited number of events or conditions, and their relationships

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Requirements' specifications

● System Development Life Cycle technique to be used

● different data gathering techniques shall be used depending on the situation and the respondents targeted including questionnaires, interviews, secondary data/information, district reports/plans, current information systems at the district

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System analysis and design

● The analysis will be based on the user and system requirements generated from the collected data

● features of the geospatialCIS prototype will be specified to achieve all the required system functionality in order to fulfill the objectives

● conceptual model consisting of the database, the user interface and the communications part

● the three components will designed separately but with proper interfaces to ensure proper system integration and communication

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Implementation

● transforming of the developed designs into functional system which will include development of the database component, the algorithms, user interfaces and geosystem integration through the website communication component

● best practices as derived from the literature to be further reviewed shall be used in web design, database design and geospatial technology integration

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Testing

● developed prototype will be tested to satisfy the system specification and meet the user needs

● test plan will be developed and run on a given set of test data

● Unit testing will be carried out on all the different components of the system individually as they were developed and then system testing as whole

● Any discovered undesirable behavior will be debugged and tested on web hosting servers and different browsers and window platforms

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Packaging

● the installable pieces of the packages used and their instructions shall be put together and compiled for downloading and installation at the user/clients machine.

● the server components shall be configured for the levels of use to the guest users, authorized user and administrator user roles, privileges and rights

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Documentation

● The entire project documentation shall be written according to the set guidelines for project proposal report writing in partial fulfillment of the award of Master of Science in Information Systems, included shall be the code for the parts of the different components for improvement and evaluation, together with an enclosed installable CD attached on the inside of the back page.

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Contents of the presentation

Introduction Literature review Related Work Methodology● Conclusion

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Conclusion

● realization of a geospatial web-based community information system will contribute towards CIS aims and objectives

● increased availability of user-friendly information to all major actors at lower local government rural community socio-economic transformation and development shall promote citizen access to government geospatial data through use of free and available ICTs.

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