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Best practices for designing Roles in ActivityInfo

During this webinar we discuss how effectively designed Roles can minimize security risks while maximizing the value that users can get out of the data. We look at specific examples and best practices that you can adjust to your team structures and program, project, country, region or team needs.

In summary, we explore:

  • Principles for granting permission
  • Understanding how roles work in ActivityInfo

How to design effective roles:

  • Permitted operations and access to resources
  • Setting up conditions to define allowed record-level operations

As well as:

  • Adding parameters to roles
  • Managing reference data
  • User management best practices

View the presentation slides of the Webinar.

Is this Webinar for me?

  • Are you responsible for user management in ActivityInfo or is this a role you would like to take on?
  • Do you wish to understand how roles and permissions work in the platform?
  • Would you like to address your questions to our team?

Then, watch our webinar!

About the Speakers and ActivityInfo

Jeric Kison earned his Bachelor's Degree from York University in Canada and his MBA from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. He has worked with NGOs and governments across four continents on strategy and evaluation for nine years. Before joining ActivityInfo he worked as a Monitoring & Evaluation Officer at Pilipinas Shell Foundation, Inc., where he led a project to develop an organizational M&E System which included the roll-out of ActivityInfo as the organization’s new information management system. Today, Jeric is working as a Customer Success Director in the ActivityInfo team bringing together his experience on the ground and passion for data 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.

How to register

Watch the recording at: https://www.activityinfo.org/support/webinars/2023-10-12-best-practices-for-designing-roles.html