“Am I a geek, or a suit?” I pondered, sitting in a large hall with some thousand others in Victoria, Canada, during the Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G ) conference. The question was posed to me by keynote speaker Damian Conway, PERL enthusiast, frequent speaker at FOSS conferences, and management consultant. I [...]
Luke, HR Information Systems (HRIS) senior developer, and myself, Geographic Information System (GIS) manager, visited the “Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial” (FOSS4G) conference in Victoria, Canada this last week. We wanted to get a better handle on how HRIS and GIS could interact within an open-source context. We walked away with some major [...]
Continuous efforts to organize and convene the Swaziland HRIS stakeholder group finally paid off when members met in Mbabane this late May. The objective of the meeting was to develop relevant and appropriate policy questions that help to determine what HR data needs to be collected, the priority of these needs, and the reports that [...]
Danny de Vries is a Monitoring and Evaluation Officer with IntraHealth's Capacity Project. He also provides Spatial Analysis (GIS) support to the HRIS and other IntraHealth projects.