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Outdoor Medical Incident Database (OMID)
OMID is designed for outdoor education and adventure organisations wishing to reduce the number of incidents occurring on activities.

For every significant incident, there are many other minor incidents that can give early warnings signals. By identifying these minor incidents and their causes, through internal investigations, the number of more serious incidents, that may require external investigations, can be minimised.

Life Effectiveness Questionnaire Database (LEQ)
The LEQ Database is a tool for analysing results from the Life Effectiveness Questionnaire (Neill, J. T., Marsh, H. W., & Richards, G. E. 2003). It can be adapted to analyse a number of other related evaluation tools.
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Our Content Management Systems of choice has done it again -  

Packt Publishing today (14 November) announced Joomla! as the the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award.

With 16,000 votes for more than 70 different Open Source Content Management Systems nominated for the award, Joomla! was judged winner of the final. After eight weeks of voting from visitors to www.PacktPub.com and judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and CMSPros, Joomla! triumphed with the most votes, winning $5,000.  

Joomla! is the youngest CMS of the five finalists having originated by the then Mambo development team in August 2005. Joomla! was chosen due to its ease of installation and use along with the active development and community that supports the project.

Core team member Alex Kempkens said the award was a wonderful surprise. "I would personally like to thank Packt for their contribution to the Joomlasphere — by publishing Joomla! guides and by running such a successful competition," he said.
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Welcome to Forecast Systems

... improve your future

Forecast Systems develop high quality computer systems that analyse data and produce meaningful reports for organisations. We specialise in content management, risk management and evaluation systems for personal development programs.

Forecast Systems develops systems for:

  • Content Management
  • Accident and Incident analysis
  • Risk Management
  • Statistical analysis tools for research instruments
  • Quality control and performance evaluation

Systems are designed to help organisations manage risks associated with their activities and provide an early warning for more major incidents. Forecast Systems specialise in the development of Incident Management Systems (IMS) that record, analyse and help reduce incidents in the workplace.

Forecast Systems have developed a number of systems that assist researchers and academics collect and analyse their data. A strong emphasis is placed on easy data entry and immediate feedback through reports, so that complex instruments can be easily implemented and widely used. Systems can be designed for most questionnaires that use a numerical style of answer.

 
Web Design

Forecast Systems provides a web design service that provides affordable sites designs to fit the customers needs and budget. We can provide solutions with

  • Web site design
  • Development and maintenance
  • Database integration
  • Content Management Systems - Joomla!
  • Weblogs
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De-mystifying Program Evaluation - an overview

Introduction 

One of the big questions that face a development program is "How effective are our programs?". This question is often driven by the marketing team in response to client's queries or by the programs team looking to improve their programs. Program evaluation for many has a reputation of being a black art, often in the realm of academics and statisticians, out of the reach of practitioners. As a result many schools struggle with the concept and often don't benefit from the value of a well structured evaluation process.  This article aims to give an overview of the steps involve in setting up an effective evaluation process and hopefully encourage more schools to look closely at their programs.

 
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