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 ==== School Accreditation Dashboard ====
-This is where you can get some live data analytics just like every other module in the EMIS. You access just like other dashboard, Click on ''School Accreditation -> Dashboard''
+This is where you can get some live data analytics just like every other module in the EMIS. You access just like other dashboard, Click on ''School Accreditation -> Dashboard''.
+<note important>In order for the dashboard to contain data from the most recently approved and uploaded cloudfiles, the EMIS warehouse has to be regenerated.</note>
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+====== Public Data Dissemination ======
+Aside from data about individuals, just about all other data benefits from being public for a number of reasons:
+  * **Transparency and Accountability**: Open data fosters transparency, holding organizations and governments accountable.
+  * **Innovation and Collaboration**: Public data fuels innovation, enabling collaboration among researchers, entrepreneurs, and developers.
+  * **Informed Decision-Making**: Accessible data empowers individuals and organizations for better decision-making.
+  * **Citizen Engagement**: Open data encourages citizen participation and engagement in public affairs.
+  * **Economic Growth**: Data availability stimulates economic growth, fostering entrepreneurship and creating jobs.
+  * **Research Advancement**: Open data accelerates research and scientific discoveries across various fields.
+  * **Public Services Improvement**: Governments utilize open data to enhance public services and address societal challenges.
+  * **Cross-Sector Collaboration**: Open data facilitates collaboration between sectors to address complex issues.
+  * **Community Empowerment**: Open data enables communities to address local challenges and actively participate in development.
+  * **Accountable Governance**: Open data supports accountable governance, allowing citizens to monitor government activities and foster trust.
+The Pacific EMIS supports a number of ways to disseminate data in a timely manner that KEMIS does not yet fully adopt. They are summarized in the table below:
+^ Method ^ Description ^ Time to Access ^ Access Difficulty ^
+| Publications | Often the most official and slowly curated sources of data. | Longest time. Requires more efforts in collecting, validating, preparing and publishing and can come sometime years after. | Easy. Typically through downloadable PDF documents. |
+| Mobile App | Download all data and view analysis on your phone. | Fast. New data immediately available. | Easy. Download the Pacific Open Education Data app on your Android or iPhone |
+| Public Login | The web application supports a public login to view all dashboards and download excel data exports. | Fast. New data immediately available. | Easy. Login the country EMIS public profile from login page. |
+| REST API | Access the raw data through special web requests in formats such as JSON and XML. | Fast. New data immediately available. | Difficult. Typically used by developers or researching with programming skills |
+A word of caution. The pacific island countries faces unique challenges making it hard to continuously improve the quality of data. Accessing the data any of the fast methods has the caveat that it has had less time for scrutiny and possible remediation. So it should always be used with care and we always appreciate any apparent issue brought to our attention so we can work to fix them.
+Each of these methods will have a sub-sections here with additional documentation.
 ===== References =====