Talk:Humanitarian OSM Team/Priority countries

"HOT has committed to furthering its longer-term vision" is such a pointless PR talk that I would like to remove it with your consent.--기후 변화 (talk) 12:43, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

기후 변화 agreed that sentence doesn't mean very much in this context. How about "HOT has committed to furthering its longer-term vision by prioritising support and investment across 94 countries through 2025"? Maybe better articulates that this is a change from before there were priority countries....? --Pedrito1414 (talk) 13:44, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

I've created a table to show the severity of the problem. You have produced much text, but where is the methodology explained?

I am pasting your table here to preserve your commentary and I will revert the table on the main page. I hope you understand that I am not trying to dodge your question, but to discuss what you raise on this 'Discussion' page.... I wonder whether the issue is that I have titled the section poorly? You rightly point out that where it says methodology, a process is described. We, as of yet, have not been through this cycle, so the methodology hasn't been developed in detail. What do you think? By the way, it would be great to know who I am discussing this with, but clicking your username leads me only to a blank Creating User:기후 변화 page. Can you point me in the right direction? --Pedrito1414 (talk) 14:41, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Just found out that wiki users don't have a profile page as standard (unlike OSM users), so ignore the question above... --Pedrito1414 (talk) 17:55, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Country Prioritisation Methodology

Decision-maker: Regional Open Mapping Hub management (unless exceptions requiring HOT senior management team) || If senior management can override regional mgmt, who ultimately decides?

Text	comment
HOT has committed to furthering its longer-term vision across 94 countries through 2025. Initial priority countries were selected based primarily on disaster risk and acute deprivations needs (measured through the multidimensional poverty index). To remain responsive to evolving humanitarian and data needs, HOT provides standard procedures for:	PR boilerplate
adjusting the global list of priority countries prioritising countries within each region	Yes, but where is the methodology?
* prioritising geographic areas within a single country (not included here).	/
Regional Open Mapping Hub teams and management will have the primary responsibility and decision-making authority to change priority countries and sub-national priorities, in alignment with and collaboratively with Functional leads.	Great, but where is the methodology?
Priority country process diagram	fancy process diagram
Lead: Regional Open Mapping Hub hub teams & mgmt. Consulted: Relevant Functional teams	I only consult the irrelevant nonfunctional teams
The global priority country list will be reviewed annually during the annual planning process and mid-cycle based on recommendations from community location experts. In both cases, the relevant regional Open Mapping Hub team(s) will take the lead on assessment using a Country Assessment Tool. This analysis should be led by Open Mapping Hub Directors. Elements of the Country Assessment Tool include, but are not limited to: value, ethics and sectoral alignment, security & risk analysis, sustainability assessments, team capacity and budget. Upon analysis using the Country Assessment Tool, the Regional Director solicits input from affected functional teams for input (eg. global finance team for budget implications, global operations team for risk/security, etc). Recommendations for adding or removing countries made by the Open Mapping Hub Director are accepted as final unless one of the exceptions in the process diagram applies. The country list will then be adjusted and communicated to inform community stakeholders and donors.	bla-bla intentions, but where is the methodology?

Better formatting on country list

Currently the country list is formatted vertically which makes it hard to read and sort:

Latin America and Caribbean (22)	Asia and Pacific (25)	Western and Northern Africa (24)	Eastern and Southern Africa (23)
Belize	Afghanistan	Algeria	Angola
Bolivia	Bangladesh	Benin	Burundi

I suggest reformatting it to a horizontal table with "Region" and "Countries" columns (optionally a "Comments" column) and adding class="sortable" so it's more easily read and looks something like this:

Region	Country	Comments
Eastern and Southern Africa	Zambia	Added 2020
Eastern and Southern Africa	Swaziland	Added 2021

User:HiperGuiri Looks good to me. Are you happy to reformat? Not sure if we need the comments - maybe it could be added at later date should there be information useful to have there? One thing someone asked for before was the number of countries in each region (hence the number in parenthesis in the column header), but that could easily be a small separate table or list. --Pedrito1414 (talk) 17:32, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

User:HiperGuiri Updated! --Pedrito1414 (talk) 12:53, 12 October 2021 (UTC)