"text":"At the core of the vision, the idea is to make information discoverable, representative, and useful. Discoverable means that it can not only be found through search and also by simply showing interest in the area and somehow you discover it. Browsing wikipedia articles should be sufficient to find key statistics on water and sanitation. At the moment, these statistics are a few steps away in specialist websites like washdata.org and this information is not automatically used in those articles. Showing interest in a specific district and search “water” and the name of US county should give key facts about water supplies. Data may already be available but simply not discoverable.\nRepresentative means that information should also represent the reality on the ground from different perspectives and that information is not from a single source of truth. It should also be appropriate to the local needs both in terms of the WASH sector and local populations and should be validated.\nUseful information is information from which one can begin to take action. Often key information about who to contact for more information, what happened, when and where is missing. If there is information about water services or sanitation, these are often dated.\nIn short, WASH Web intends to make information and expertise more accessible so that it is no longer only experts who are able to make informed decisions based on available evidence. Up until now, WASH Web has been an idea and a project that a few people have been playing with. This website and the project is open source and participatory meaning it is open to the initiative and inputs from others. Currently, WASHNote hosts and maintains the project website and source code.\nWould you like to get involved? Please get in touch or check add an issue on Github.\nContact form: https://washnote.com/contact/\nAdd an issue: https://github.com/WASHNote/WASHWeb/issues\nThis website was last updated on 2023-05-12 ."
"text":"WASH Web is a set of participatory initiative to give you and everyone you know better access to water, sanitation and hygiene information. This web page is where you can find more information about taking part in various ways"
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"text":"Who can take part?\nCitizens, suppliers, NGOs and governments can take part to better use evidence to and to make information accessible."
