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Using Data Sharing to Improve Coordination in Peacebuilding Report of a Workshop by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace: Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding (2012) / Chapter Skim
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1 Introduction, Overview, and Themes of the Workshop
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... In addition, the workshop served as a means to obtain feedback on the UNITY system, a data-sharing platform developed by the Department of Defense (DOD) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
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... Harnessing systems methods for delivery of peacebuilding services. Four steering committees comprised of Roundtable members and other experts developed action plans for each activity area that included workshops intended to assemble experts from across the peacebuilding and technical communities.
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... Both Roman and Greenberg emphasized that information sharing can be formal or informal, within an organization or among organizations, and within a sector or across sectors. A common element of successful data sharing is a collective vision among the entities involved and some established common objectives so that they can function as a network of distinct but 1 The Roundtable uses information sharing and data sharing interchangeably.
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... Four preliminary themes emerged from the workshop discussions. While these themes will need to be explored more fully before we can draw firm conclusions, they present a reasonable overview of the key issues surfaced by meeting participants.
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... Participants also discussed barriers to coordination: competition for resources, meeting overload, and the lack of a single leader to drive the process forward. But workshop participants agreed that coordination is integral to peacebuilding efforts, as it provides an environment for solving immediate problems rather than in high-level strategic planning.
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... 6 DATA SHARING TO IMPROVE COORDINATION IN PEACEBUILDING Institutionalizing and formalizing relationships among organizations can provide a framework for cooperation. And the cooperation itself, including data sharing, is a means to the end of building partnerships and trust and needs to be continually refreshed and renewed.
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