GROUP 1

 

QUESTIONS THAT CAME UP FROM THE DISCUSSSION

1) Questions that all groups should answer

Q1 - What information/knowledge do we want to share?

Strategic (mid-term / long-term)	Tactic (short-term)
Comments

Q2 -  What will each of us contribute to GESS and to SSI?
– What should be the specific contribution from field experts to GESS?

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Q3 - What does motivate / makes it worthwhile for people to visit and contribute to the website?

 

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 2) Additional questions

• Who is the audience we are targeting?
– What kind of participation do we expect from participants?
– How do we ensure to reach all our different target groups?
– How can we tailor our messages better to different target groups? Impossible to target everyone?
• GESS as ILO tool or anonymous website?
– Do we want to post non-ILO reports and publications?
– Difference between official departmental site and GESS?
– How to ensure that our message does not get lost?
• How to organize more efficiently our internal communication?
– How to mark GESS “SECSOC” pages more clearly as internal?
– Can we use the ASIA/PACIFIC technology for our needs?
• How can we make it useful/worthwhile for everyone to contribute to?
• How to decide/who decides what is relevant for users?
• How to facilitate access to information for ILO constituents in all ILO languages?
• How can we render more visible the strengths/ key sections and value added (e.g. SSI)?

 

 

Other ideas

1. Vision for GESS:

• What do we want GESS to be: internal/external knowledge sharing tool for ongoing activities?
• The wikipedia/google/facebook of social security

2.- Priorities for GESS content and functions:

• What information on GESS do we want to document? Where do we find this information?
• What information that we are presenting is superfluous/ what is useful?
• What functions on GESS do you find most relevant/ what is unnecessary/ what else would you find useful
• Who is the principle audience?

3.- Addressing challenges regarding GESS

• Matching vision and resources: what can each of us realistically contribute within their current workload and time constraints?
• Quality controle: routine workflows for content, translation, editing and updating?
• Layout/structure: priorities for improving user-friendliness
• Balancing content by topic and region?

4.- Adresssing challenges regarding SSI

• Matching vision and resources: what can each of us realistically contribute within their current workload and time constraints?
• Quality controle: routine workflows for content, data validation, updating regularly?

5. - Other comments that came up during the discussion regarding GESS/ SSI:

  

 

Group members: