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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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5 Demonstrating Data Sharing: The UNITY System
Pages 35-40

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... UNITY was described and demonstrated at the workshop by Mark Hainsey, project leader at the US Army Corps of Engineers, and Steven Wood, support lead for the Cooperative Security (CS) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD)
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... The objective of this JCTD, said Hainsey, is to develop cutting-edge capabilities to produce a better integrated "whole of government" approach to development and defense cooperative activities both with other US agencies and across the public-private divide. The problem the UNITY system addresses is the absence among regional stakeholders of integrated, interagency adaptive planning, decision support, and assessment capabilities; information-sharing architectures; and orga Project Information Project Type: Rule of Law Title: Justice System Capacity Building Budget: $1,600,000 Activities: · Establish regional justice centers · Conduct multilingual public education campaigns · Create community mediation centers FIGURE 5-1 Hypothetical USG and NGO Development Projects in Guatemala and Belize Shown on UNITY.
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... The UNITY system allows regional and multinational nonclassified information sharing, mutually visible situation and event assessment and planning, and collaborative implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. It connects communities of interest through a federated, collaborative forum called the All Partners Access Network (APAN)
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... The system has been designed for precrisis environments. Roman acknowledged that including conflict indicators would be a valuable addition so that the effects of both development and peacebuilding could be monitored over time.
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... In particular, Roman suggested that USIP might be an excellent place to host such a datasharing program. Another potentially valuable source of data cited by workshop participants is the information available through crowdsourcing.
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... Wood explained that the platform will support multiple server configurations, so extensibility has already been built into it and multiple versions of the platform could be spread across multiple user communities.
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