An interactive resource management tool for Makassed association. (c1997)

Abstract

The system presented herein aims at putting together a decision support tool that functions on a GIS platform. The project has been specifically tailored for Makassed which is a philanthropic association, with many institutions that have been founded in order to provide services to the Moslem groups in Lebanon. Makassed needs a tool that could be used as a reference in order to allow people to have a general idea about its institutions and about what they offer. The best method found to achieve this objective is to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS), because a GIS can handle spatial data in addition, to aspatial data. So by using GIS we will be able to relate the locations of these institutions (spatial data) to any data that describe them (aspatial data). The project consists of a multimedia tool, a capital budgeting tool, a scheduling tool, and finally a grave identification tool.