A good data model that is tailored to your project requirements is an essential part of designing and implementing an effective information management system.

During this webinar, we explain the importance of creating an effective data model when it comes to designing databases and walk you through some practical steps for how you can create a data model for your own project’s database.

In summary, we explore:

• What is data modelling?
• Why create a data model?

The data modelling process:

• Identifying data entities
• Creating entity relationship diagrams

Data modelling best practices:

• Considering the role of end user experience
• Tips for aligning user experience with database functionality
• Creating data models that facilitate analysis
• The most common data models in humanitarian and development contexts

View the presentation slides of the Webinar.

Is this Webinar for me?

• Do you wish to undestand the basics of data modelling so you can design your own databases?
• Are you looking for information and inspiration for building an information system for your organization but don’t know where to start?
• Are you an ActivityInfo database administrator or is this a role you would like to take on?

Then, watch our webinar!

About the Speakers and ActivityInfo

Eliza Avgeropoulou earned her BSc from Athens University of Economics and Business, and her MSc degree in Economic Development and Growth from Lund University and Carlos III University, Madrid. She brings eight years of experience in M&E in international NGOs, including CARE, Innovations for Poverty Action and Catholic Relief Services (CRS). The past five years, she has led the MEAL system design for various multi-stakeholders’ projects focusing on education, livelihoods, protection and cash. She believes that evidence-based decision making is the core of high quality program implementation. She now joins us as our M&E Implementation Specialist, bringing together her experience on the ground and passion for data-driven decision making to help our customers achieve success with ActivityInfo.

Victoria Manya holds a Master’s degree in local development strategies from the Erasmus University in the Netherlands and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the African Studies Center at Leiden University. With over ten years of experience, Victoria has a diverse background and extensive expertise in data-driven impact, project evaluation, and organizational learning including delivering trainings and ensuring practical knowledge management. Today, Victoria leverages her experience as a Customer Education Specialist at ActivityInfo, to assist customers in successfully deploying the platform for their humanitarian or development programs.

ActivityInfo is an information management platform perfect for monitoring and evaluation, humanitarian coordination and case management. For more than a decade, the ActivityInfo team has been supporting humanitarian operations and development programmes worldwide catering for emerging needs for data collection and analysis. UN agencies, INGOS and NGOs use the platform to centralize and standardize data collection, display the impact of their activities while maintaining complete control on data access and changes. Originally developed for UNICEF’s emergency program in eastern DRC, ActivityInfo is a service provided by BeDataDriven a company based in The Hague, Netherlands.