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
Expertise
- Digital public infrastructure and digital identity
- Cybersecurity and digital resilience
- Reliability, safety and resilience engineering
- Critical infrastructure and lifelines
- Data infrastructure, compute and semiconductors
Izifundo
- Computer science
- Electrical and electronic engineering
- Civil and structural engineering
- Data science and statistics
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Operations research and decision science
Ukuthi iqhutshwa kanjani
| Indima | What it does | At least |
|---|---|---|
| Maintainer | Owns a tool, twin or service and accepts changes to it. | 1 |
| Reviewer | Reviews changes, drafts or claims before they are accepted. | 1 |
| Security contact | Receives security reports and coordinates fixes. | 1 |
- Decisions
- Advice process. Anyone may decide, after seeking advice from everyone affected and from those with expertise; the advice is on the record.
- Izivikelo
- 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.
What a new cell starts with
Projects
- Specification
- First release
- Security and accessibility review
First issues
- Choose the open licence
- Set the review rule for changes
- Run an accessibility check
Open calls
- Contributors and testers
What it connects to
- Idatha
- 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.
- Amazinga
- 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.
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.