Yann Rebois
GIS Specialist
International Committee of the Red Cross
Switzerland

Biography
Yann Rebois joined the ICRC in 2010, after several years in the field with NGOs and UN humanitarian organizations. Since then, he is working with the GIS officer team spread out in major humanitarian contexts, on data consolidation from the field to the HQ. With the team in Geneva he is involved in the maintenance of the ICRC Geoportal, following the unset/protracted humanitarian crisis. The team is trying to simplify the access of geodata/key facts to the non GIS specialist running the ICRC.

Abstract


The International Committee of the Red Cross setup a Geoportal on 2011 for the internal staff members. It’s mandate is to assist and protect the lives of victims of war and internal violence. Many units and sections made the choice to display or to gather data through this online platform built on ESRI ecosystem. Daily humanitarian operation follow-up, finance, human resources, management of the building, logistic... The platform become quickly transversal but in the meantime it is starting to be too complex for the end users as there is too much key information in one spot… Dedicated and thematic portals are setup for the needs of the specific end users. Those kiosks are made with the minimal layers of information, and the minimal of tools needed for the display and analysis of the data. As the GIS team is embedded within the Water and Habitat unit, the first thematic kiosks where used to gather information on solar panels equipment’s for water pumping, and for data consolidation of all urban water projects set up by the engineers.