Web Based Information System for Thematic Monitoring In Sri Lanka

Abstract

The United Notion (UN) has been launching a programme called Millennium Development Goals (MGD), with collaboration of Ministry of Policy Development and Implementation (MPDI) to evaluate and compare the social status such as Underweight children aged under 5 years, Number of deaths due to Malaria, Tuberculosis within the divisions in Sri Lanka. Authorized persons were allowed to gather information by filling printed forms. The information was stored by the computerized system called Divisional Monitoring System (DMS).At a time only one person could enter the information to the Divisional Monitoring System. This was a time-consumed work and need more workers and also DMS provides only an evaluation of social status. Thematic Monitoring System was a web-based information system implemented to overcome the drawbacks of DMS. Authorized persons from each and every division were given access to enter relevant information to the web-forms and submit it to MPDI through the web to increase the efficiency. Graphs were produced to compare these social statuses between specific divisions and specific years. Previous year’s o data for these statuses were retrieved. Any user, except entering data, could view every other feature. All the user interfaces were created using Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) was used to give a good appearance to the interfaces. Visual Basic Script (VBS) and Active Server Pages (ASP) were used to validate the forms and to write the data to the database. SQL Server was used as database. The outcome o f this project was a web-based information system for thematic monitoring in Sri Lanka. Authorized users were given passwords to enter the values. After accessing to the site, it gave the guidelines to fill the forms one after another. Further the system produced comparison graphs for selected goals between specific divisions or specific years.