An International network of DSS sites involved in demographic and health research in developing countries      

Meeting Proceedings

Developing a Prototype for Data Sharing; Building capacity in Data management across INDEPTH Member sites

(A prototype for Vadu - India, Kanchanaburi- Thailand and Wosera -Papua New Guinea)

October 23th – 25^th October 2007

Tara Hotel

Project Aim

The Main aim of developing this Centralized Data-sharing System is to enable sharing of Health and Demographic Surveillance System (DSS) data among the following INDEPTH sites: Vadu-India, Kanchanaburi-Thailand and Wosera - Papua-New Guinea.

Objective

The objective of the Data-Sharing System is to develop a prototype data sharing system among the three DSS sites to facilitate sharing of data and cross-site studies.

Description

Vadu-India, Kanchanaburi-Thailand and Papua-New Guinea DSS sites are presently using different data management systems in their respective areas. The common demographic  variables that these sites collect are Births, Deaths, In-Migration and Out-Migration. A prototype data-sharing mechanism called the Common Database (CDB) has been developed to facilitate pooling and sharing of common variables across the three sites.

This meeting was to present progress so far, work on system documentation, develop the relevant supporting forms (registration forms, terms and agreement conditions, confidentiality agreements, etc.) and to discuss and agree various implementation issues, and also to set timelines for bring this pilot-project to closure.

Participants: Uraiwan K, Kriengkrai, Sureporn (Kanchanaburi DSS), Thomas Adiguma, Suparat (Wosera DSS), Sanjay Juvekar (Vadu DSS), Suresh SS (Institute of International Information technology (I2IT, India)

Kwabena Owusu-Boateng (INDEPTH Secertariat).

Some pictures from meeting