What are the benefits?

Revisi per 27 Februari 2014 15.37 oleh Catriona (bicara | kontrib)

Provides a service to all

  • Provides real benefits to farmers and their communities
  • Allows everyone to use good evidence when making decisions
  • Gives direct benefits to staff at all levels
  • Improves communication
  • Makes reporting faster and easier
  • Removes the routine reporting burden.

Win-win for data users

  • Data captured electronically in the field making field work easier
  • Data quickly and automatically available at higher levels for policy and decision-making.

Simple

  • Uses existing tools – mobile phones, SMS, spread sheets, web browser, e-mail
  • No new systems or software to learn.

Fast

  • Data reporting from the field to the database is direct and electronic
  • Immediate access to the latest data by all authorised stakeholders .

Integrated

  • A single system for all relevant data available on a single website.

Sustainable

  • Based on open-source software
  • Developed to be managed and adapted by Indonesian staff
  • Open-access, easy to use training packages
    • New staff can learn how to use the system easily
    • Staff supported with additional courses to strengthen skills in the collection, management and use of data.