Migrating data to ActivityInfo - Best practices and insights from Missio Invest and the Spotlight Initiative

About the Webinar

This session is dedicated to the practical aspects of migrating data to the ActivityInfo platform. During the session, we will be discussing best practices to consider for the migration process and we are happy to welcome speakers from the Spotlight Initiative and Missio Invest who will share valuable insights on the process.

In summary, we will explore:

• Best practices for data migration
• The Spotlight Initiative: insights and lesson learnt from the migration process
• Missio Invest: insights and lessons learnt from the migration process

There will also be a Q&A session during which you will be able to address your questions to our panelists.

Is this Webinar for me?

• Are you planning to move to a new information system and wish to see what migrating your data to ActivityInfo would look like?
• Do you wish to follow the data migration journey of other organizations and address your questions to them?

Then, join our webinar!

About the Speakers and ActivityInfo

Michelle Unda is the Data Analyst for the Monitoring &Evaluation unit at the Spotlight Initiative, a UN Initiative in partnership with the European Union. The Spotlight Initiative works to eliminate violence against women and girls. Michelle works at the secretariat supporting country programmes by collecting and reviewing indicator data, managing the Results Framework database and aggregating global results for the annual reports. She led the switch in changing their database system onto ActivityInfo and hopes to continually make improvements. Michelle holds a master's degree in International Development from American University, with a concentration in Monitoring & Evaluation, as well as a bachelor's degree in Cultural Anthropology from Rutgers University, where she also attended the Douglass Residential College.

Shirine Pont joined Missio Invest in 2020 to support impact measurement and reporting. In the course of her work there, she transitioned Missio Invest’s data system to ActivityInfo to better capture the impact their loans are making across Africa. She uses data and design to present insights and visualize change. She combines a career in education and business in Austria and the US, with two decades of experience in international development in Indonesia, Afghanistan and Lebanon. Shirine has an engineering degree in Computer Science from Vienna, Austria and an Executive MBA from Carlson School of Management, Minneapolis, USA.

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.