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Registration open for the 2016 Redatam workshop on creation of databases and web application development for information dissemination

1 June 2016|Briefing note

CELADE invites all Redatam users to register in this workshop of database creation and web applications development using Redatam Webserver for the dissemination of data. The objective is to put into practice the knowledge learned in their respective countries afterwards.

This is an intensive hands-on training and will be conducted in Spanish. The course will have duration of 76 hours during ten days. It is aimed at professionals, technicians and users in general with experience and knowledge in data management and processing and ideally with some knowledge of Redatam. This workshop is part of the technical advisory activities that CELADE-Population Division continuously provides to national institutions related to the use and dissemination of sociodemographic and sectoral information, especially population census and surveys.

During the workshop the process of sociodemographic databases (censuses and surveys) migration from external sources such as DBF, CSPro, SPSS, ASCII to Redatam will be demonstrated. In addition, we will develop a web based application that allows online processing of Redatam databases with the purpose of disseminating the information through the Internet.

At the end of the workshop the participants would have learned to create Redatam databases with the Redatam7 Create module, would have learned to tabulate different variables with Reddatam7 Process module and would have learned to develop their own web applications using the IIS local server and Redatam Webserver.

Place: The course will take place at ECLAC headquarters, Santiago, Chile.

Costs:  The fee of the workshop is US$ 500 for each participant.

Note:  The fee does not include other costs such as transportation, lodging, food, etc. These costs are responsibility of each participant or of the funding institution.

Please confirm your interest to maria.ramirez@cepal.org, submitting the following form.  Address additional questions regarding the content of the workshop to alejandra.silva@cepal.org