"The objective of OCHA’s new field information management strategy is to increase support to humanitarian actors by improving the capacity for decision making and analysis through strengthened collection, processing, and dissemination of information. This objective will be met by increasing OCHA’s IM capacity in Field Offices to strengthen the internal flow and management of information and to provide improved external IM services to its many humanitarian partners. Within the parameters of this strategy, for example: Internal changes include: Mapping and standardizing information flow within OCHA to address the current perception of ‘black holes’ throughout the Office, from which nothing emerges; Standardizing file structures and descriptions so all data can be effectively searched; Introducing a system to regularly and securely back up all field data. External services include: Promoting enhanced information sharing, and providing mechanisms to do so, to improve coordination and analysis; Establishing a minimum standard of products to enhance humanitarian coordination, such as Who Does What Where (W3) databases; Working with partners to standardize, to the extent possible within Agency specific requirements, the collection of data, focusing on geo-referencing and metadata; • Providing database and mapping services to those actors lacking their own capacity." (Page IV)