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Data and engineering

Dashboards and tools cell

Builds the open tools and views that show the indexes and their corrections.

Joining
By request
Decides by
Advice process
To form
3 members
Visibility
Listed in public once active

What it is for

Builds and maintains open tools, digital twins and infrastructure, with open licences, reviewed changes and release records.

Who it draws on

Every cell is interdisciplinary: anyone may ask to join. These are the fields it needs most.

Expertise

  • البنية التحتية الرقمية العامة والهوية الرقمية
  • الأمن السيبراني والصمود الرقمي
  • الموثوقية والسلامة وهندسة الصمود
  • البنية التحتية الحيوية وشبكات الخدمات الأساسية
  • البنية التحتية للبيانات والحوسبة وأشباه الموصلات

التخصصات

  • Computer science
  • Electrical and electronic engineering
  • Civil and structural engineering
  • Data science and statistics
  • Machine learning and artificial intelligence
  • Operations research and decision science

كيف يُدار

Roles a cell of this type must fill before it is listed
الدورما يفعلهAt least
MaintainerOwns a tool, twin or service and accepts changes to it.1
ReviewerReviews changes, drafts or claims before they are accepted.1
Security contactReceives security reports and coordinates fixes.1
القرارات
Advice process. Anyone may decide, after seeking advice from everyone affected and from those with expertise; the advice is on the record.
الضمانات
  • Conflict-of-interest recusal. People with a declared interest step out of the decision.

How to join

By request. People ask to join with their relevant expertise and a short motivation; the cell's admins approve or decline.

A request asks for: your relevant expertise and why you want to join.

What a new cell starts with

Projects

  • المواصفة
  • First release
  • Security and accessibility review

First issues

  • Choose the open licence
  • Set the review rule for changes
  • Run an accessibility check

الدعوات المفتوحة

  • Contributors and testers

What it connects to

البيانات
Publish and share datasets with licences, quality flags and access rules.
Maps and twins
Place the cell's work on the map, and use shared layers and digital twins.
المعايير
Work with the standards working groups: drafts, comment rounds and conformance.
Review hub
Request peer review of outputs, and review the work of others.
Help desk
A help desk queue for questions and requests sent to the cell.

Its space has: discussion, activity, documents and library, meetings and events, proposals and decisions, outputs.

Projects it often runs

  • Open data release. Publish a dataset with a licence, quality flags and documentation.
  • Field pilot. Try a method or tool on the ground with local partners.
  • Open tool. Build and release an open tool with reviewed changes.
  • Digital twin. Build a model of a place or system to test scenarios.

Agreements it signs

  • Cell charter (required). The mission, scope, host, roles, governance model and how the cell closes.
  • Membership agreement (required). What members commit to, how they join and leave, and how credit is recorded.
  • Intellectual property and open licence (required). Who owns the outputs and the open licence they are published under.
  • Code of conduct and safeguarding (required). How members treat each other, how concerns are raised, and who acts on them.

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