The Asia-Pacific Gateway for Disaster Risk Reduction and Development (Gateway) has been developed using the open-source software “drupal 7”. The Gateway is a partner initiative which aggregates to the regional level, relevant information from existing online sources in the region thereby promoting an online community of practice. To keep the Gateway up-to-date, relevant and demand-driven, the content uploaded by Gateway partners[1] and other providers such as NDMA/Os is key.
The purpose of this note is to set out the policies for users and content providers. The Gateway team encourages content providers to upload all content that is relevant to the Gateway, in accordance with its mandate, and in adherence to the following:
I. Content must be directly pertaining to work in the area of DRR and development planning. It may also include content pertaining to the transition from response and recovery to mainstreaming DRR and prevention, and the use and/or sharing of effective ICT tools and related policies, legislation and frameworks that can aid in disaster management and risk reduction.
II. Content providers are urged to contact the Gateway administrator, if they find content on the Gateway which is deemed to be inappropriate / inaccurate.
Editorial Policy Guidelines
1. Content provider
Users are invited to register on the Gateway and can request to become a content provider. To qualify as a content provider, approval by the Gateway administrator is needed. Users are requested to provide information such as job title, email, organization, area of interest and intended contributions. Approval will be based upon:
-A list of accredited partners, organizations and line ministries, which includes partners of the Gateway, UN Agencies, NDMA/Os, line ministries, inter/non-governmental organizations, knowledge networks, governments, experts / academic and research institutions/practitioners with established reporting mechanisms on the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) and communities of practice in fields that are relevant to DRR and development planning.
2. Content submission
Content providers are invited to post content relevant to the Gateway by presenting the source (providing credit to the authors in a manner equivalent to the credit given on original content), the date and a reliable URL for the content.
3. Content Review
Content providers are requested to review each of their own submissions individually in order to ensure consistency with the policy guidelines for the Gateway. If an item submitted does not comply with selection criteria of the Gateway, the Gateway administrator will contact the content provider to request more information, and/or suggest revisions and/or remove the content.
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Contact: The Administrator
Asia Pacific Gateway for Disaster Risk Reduction and Development
Information and Communication Technology and Disaster Risk Reduction Division
UNESCAP
United Nations Building
Rajadamnern Nok Avenue
Bangkok, 10200
Thailand
drrgatewayteam@gmail.com
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Footnote
1. Partners are divided in 3 categories knowledge partners, theme moderators, resource partners. Partners currently include: ADPC, ESCAP, APCICT, UN ISDR, UN OOSA’s UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal, DRR Project Portal, Solution Exchange and PreventionWeb. Other partnerships are being initiated with ASEAN and SOPAC and the Pacific Disaster Net.
