Today, 15th March 2014, I am privileged to create and launch the blog for the Data Managers Forum, a new innovation aimed at providing data managers with a common platform for sharing ideas, both technical and non-technical in nature.
This blog comes as a result of a long deliberate effort to bring together data managers in the HIV/AIDS and related fields in Uganda. Since today we are in a global village, contributions to this blog will be open to whoever may wish to contribute across the globe.
This blog is not an official instrument of any institution, and it is not directly affiliated to any organization, although the initiators are data managers from the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala.
It is hoped that with time, interested organizations will be able to provide support to the Data Managers Forum (and by extension the Data Managers) in whatever way may be possible.
In the interim, I will be personally moderating this blog to ensure compliance with acceptable standards - technical, ethical or otherwise.
I encourage members to post on a wide variety of subjects, typically (but without limitation) data management (collection, storage, analysis, quality assurance, reporting, etc), statistical analysis, programming, software development, database management systems, IT-wide issues, GIS, etc.
Remember "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy", so some fun posts are warmly welcome as well.
Once inside the log, please post new entries (if you are a forum member) and/or make comments on posts (whoever you may be).
Richard Orama,
Founder of the Blog for Data Managers Forum.
Ok, just testing if comments are working.
ReplyDeleteYet to see mine
ReplyDeleteComments are currently moderated by me, so they don't get published until I approve them. The reason is that without moderation, we can get a lot of spam comments. The ability to moderate comments gives you control over the kind of messages people leave on your blog.
ReplyDeleteExcellent, that is perfectly fine
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