 I would like to welcome Liz Huge to this table in order to be able to chair the next session. Liz is the CEO, Chief Executive of MAP Action and has been involved in humanitarian action in many different places and she will take you through the next session. Very welcome Liz to the stage. Well good morning, good morning to everybody in the auditorium and good morning to everybody, good morning, good afternoon, good evening to everybody online. Pleasure to be here and to welcome you to this first panel session, Uncharted Territory, Mapping for Humanitarian Responses. So we've had some interesting tasters from Kenneth on the potential of data and big data and now we're going to hear from three panelists who each have been involved in very specific projects on the ground in how to bring spatial analysis to the problems and dilemmas of humanitarian action. So I'd like to welcome our first panelist, Sylvie de la Bauderie from CART ONG. Sylvie would you like to come to the stage? Good morning everyone. So I'm Sylvie, I'm part of the GIS units since two years now. I would like first to thank you the committee of the MSF Scientific Day to offer the possibility for us to present our work we've done since two years now. I will present you, I want to give you an overview of what is a GIS unit in MSF Switzerland and I will illustrate my point with Ebola context. So what is GIS? I know that some of you do not like so much acronyms. So GIS is Geographical Information System and it's not really, it's not only mapping. When I prepared my presentation I was asked to change the title by mapping but GIS is more than that. GIS is database, GIS is GPS, GIS is also remote sensing and GIS is also the guy who are using this tool, the GIS officer. So basically Geographic Information System link location and database information and enable visualization of patterns, relationships and trends. So the GIS unit was born in MSF Switzerland. In 2012 there was a first study, a comprehensive study who led the conclusion that in MSF there were no base map, detail map and no reference map, reference data for the country of operation of MSF. Then in 2013 we start to build the first strategy to build the GIS unit and our main aim is to set the foundation of the system. It's really basic, it's to collect all the reference data and to create base mapping for operational needs. So we develop a tool, we call it the map center. The map center is really the cornerstone of our strategy. In 2014 we have the opportunity to deploy four and until seven GIS officers in the field. I will talk later about that. So this is the MSF map center, maybe some of you know already. So in this tool you can accept directly to detail map, health center facilities maps or specific operational maps. If you don't find your maps you can also request for a map and we will answer you. So as I said the map center is really the cornerstone of our strategy so it's in the center here. So all the cells from MSF can request a map and it's directly sent to the GIS unit and the GIS unit act like front office and we can request specific needs to for example missing maps or Vienna unit with specialist with remote sensing and we can also, we are here also to gather all information for you so we can collect maps and other tools from different other human Italian websites and all tools and all this map are available in the map center. So we were first activated for the typhoon, Ayan in Philippine in 2013. We were activated to do remote support so the first thing was to harvest all the map existing on the web. So it was done the first night before the first departure of the expatriate and in the second step we were requested to create specific maps when MSF arrived in the field and when it no better the area of interest. So what we learned about this first emergency activation the very positive point is like we are very reactive and we are directly supporting the operation but we also learned that with the lack of internet our map were not used in the field it was very difficult for them to download our map so we need to print it in the adquarter and to send it by plane with the expatriate. Yeah that's true. Also we didn't get any feedback from the field we didn't receive data so we cannot improve the map with the data collected directly in the field. So this is an example of a map we create for the Philippine so basically it's a detailed map where you can find all the naming, the location, the health facilities, the barangay names etc. So the main point is that all this data exists on the web we didn't create the data but we create the map and this map didn't exist before we created. So that's what's super useful at adquarter for operation planning and in the field also to know just where you are. So then we have the very good opportunity to deploy a JRS officer the first emergency in March in 2014. So the JRS was deployed with the epidemiologist the aim is to create a binom between the epidemiologist and the JRS officer. So the JRS officer, oh really? Oh I need to go fast. So what was the added value of the JRS in the field? As he was in the field he can collect the data directly so we create a lot of a GPS plan team so you can hire some local staff you give them a GPS you give them a motorbike and you send them directly to the field and you will collect the name of the villages and all very small settlements. So with this data you can create all this kind of maps so you are here like it's a density population map you have very detailed maps and here you have our team so this is in laboria with the tuk-tuk and this is in the free term. I need to go here and then this is the map we can produce to analyze the outbreak so you can see here this is the cumulative Ebola cases per community level so if you have good information and if you have good location you can have this kind of map. This is another type of map so this is the quarantine needs so each point is a quarantine house and in blue you have the needs who are met and in red you have the need which need to be covered. So this kind of map also is very useful to do advocacy. So GIS is also was also used in the field to support the data management so how to work with geographical data so how so we were there to improve also the linings including the geographical colon and also our GIS officer in the field had a lot of interaction with governments so we provide training with other NGOs with other GIS actors in the field and in remotely and the benefit of our work was like we put our data our reference data we put it online so now it's on the open street map maybe Pete will talk about that and you can see here a map used for coordination. So in conclusion of this success pilot in Ebola context we improve the GIS culture within MSF. More and more people know that we exist and we create the need but there is a need actually. The position of the GIS officer in the field is really transversal. First it was there for the epidemiologist but he was useful also for the logistician and also for the coordination and it became a bit like the information manager or the information resource person. What next for the GIS in MSF so now we are building the new strategy for the coming years we need to reinforce the GIS unit we need to be ready to deploy very fast a new GIS officer. We also want to develop the training and the capacity building inside MSF and we would like to work in an intersectional level. All this thing is to improve the support to MSF operation. Okay thank you for your orientation. If you want to have the websites of the map center because it's password protected just come to me. Thank you very much Sylvie. Fascinating introduction to the GIS unit for MSF. We've just got time probably for one or two brief technical questions and then we'll come to discussion later. The gentleman with his hand up in the middle. Thanks for showing us really nice maps. What I noticed is that they're all quite high level maps and they're very useful for sort of an overview of the situation but sometimes what is missing in the field is very high resolution maps of very detailed areas which are not available online which the only people that hold these maps are either the army or the government and they're not public domain and I'm just wondering whether you've got any experience of cooperating with these institutions to sort of map out very detailed areas for specific interventions for example. So far we are using a remote sensing for example we map Mika mancamp in South Sudan with a remote sensing image. We are not collaborating directly with the military but for example in Liberia they give to all the community all the very detailed settlement database and also online you can find a lot of military maps available it's a bit old it's from Russia but you can find a lot of data online. Thank you very much Sylvia I think I'm sure there are more questions but we'll come to those probably towards the end so thank you very much indeed.