Idea Catalog Update - User Generated Content

WHAT’S CHANGING

We have introduced new functionality to allow you to add new insight posts and new Lessons Learned to the system. You can also propose new entries to a catalog.

WHY YOU’D USE IT

It allows you to add your own content that you want to share with the wider community.

GETTING STARTED

New Insight

In the entry, go to the Insight Tab and click “Add Post”. Fill in the form (fields marked with an asterisk are mandatory) and then click “Save Changes”. 

New Lessons Learned

Go to the Lessons Learned List and click the “Plus” button.  Fill in the form (fields marked with an asterisk are mandatory) and then click “Save Changes”.

New Entry

Open the dashboard and click the lightbulb icon. Fill in the form (fields marked with an asterisk are mandatory) and then click “Submit”. It will then be sent to us to add into the system. We may need to contact you for further clarification and information in order to ensure the entry is complete and accurate. Once it is in the system we will let you know.

AVAILABILITY

Adding new Insights or Lessons Learned is available to all Idea Catalog users on the Premium Plan.

Proposing new entries is available to all Idea catalog users whether on the Premium Plan or the Standard Plan. 

See more at https://www.ideacatalog.net/

Lessons Learned Added to Idea Catalog

We have just added a significant new area to the Idea Catalog. The objective was to identify genuine ‘operational’ lessons learned/learning from D&D projects worldwide through a combination of literature searches, conference proceeding reviews and with one-to-one interviews with practitioners.

What are the Benefits?

Deactivation & Decommissioning (D&D) is a major component of cleanup missions. As a result, there is a clear need for the development and implementation of technologies and approaches which lead to faster, safer and more cost-effective decommissioning of facilities. One aspect of this need is developing new approaches and technologies (and this is the purpose of the existing technology catalogs), but another is ensuring that the lessons learned from previous D&D efforts are shared among D&D practitioners to ensure that money and time is not spent unnecessarily ‘reinventing the wheel’ or conducting activities in a manner that have previously been shown to be either ineffective or inefficient (or both). This database is intended to improve the capture and dissemination of lessons learned to improve knowledge. It collates such lessons learned in a standard format that can be filtered, sorted and searched. Information from D&D projects around the world will be added regularly and we will soon be adding the capability for users to add their own lessons learned to the database.