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Geographical Information System (GIS) : supportING EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE Decision-Making. TA-ALB-10. What is GIS and how does it work with SIMS?.
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Geographical Information System (GIS): supportING EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE Decision-Making TA-ALB-10
What is GIS and how does it work with SIMS? • GIS is a computer system designed to enable users to collect, manage, analyze big quantities of spatial data to help in planning and decision-taking for a community or region. • The MoES GIS application uses the data collected in the national school survey and stored in SIMS. It turns numbers into visual data. • The visual data can be shown at different levels of detail allowing decisions to be made at an individual school level, a village level, a regional level and a national level. • It allows data to be compared across the country. • Each SIMS report can have a GIS application associated with it.
GIS Module Architecture • Analyze, display Data • Update GIS Data • Produce new map scenarios • Feed Web-GIS with new data • … GIS Module Users Web Based GIS (operates in any Web-Browser) GIS Server ArcGIS Desktop MoES GIS Specialist dBase Server
How does GIS support policy-driven decision making? • In any education ministry around the world, staff ask similar questions that impact on planning for the future. They are policy-related questions that depend on an evidence-base to provide accurate answers. These questions may include: • PQ - 1. Do we need 4796 schools in Albania? Can we rationalize the number of schools so that we have more money to spend on a smaller number of schools? • Which schools could we close? • PQ - 2. Are there any schools that need to be closed because they pose a threat to the lives of students and teachers? • What other schools could the students be sent to? • PQ - 3. Are there schools that pose a health risk to students because of lack of water and sanitation? • What could be done to ensure that girls continue to go to school? GIS HELPS US ANSWER THESE POLICY QUESTIONS
School Infrastructure Management SystemSystem Users • SIMS is an interactive, multi-user information management tool that provides easy access to the infrastructure data of all Albanian pre-University schools
School Infrastructure Management SystemSystem Components Description • Data Viewer • Enables SIMS users to view all of the data collected for any institution • It offers a search utility to quickly locate the desired institution(school and building) • Easy navigation with tabs to jump to the section of interest • Reporting • Enable decision makers to generate various reports for each of the thematic areas • SIMS reports offer charts and summary tables with aggregation at multiple levels, and drill down and up capabilities • Data Entry • Enables SIMS users to update the school infrastructure data • It offers the look and feel of the auditing forms used in the field and it validates the information entered to ensure the quality of the data entry • Administration • Enables the administration of the user permissions, by defining what data and functionalities will be available to the different users