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AUDA‑NEPAD Events Platform
Platform Briefing · Communications × MIS × Departments

One platform. Every department.
Every audience.

A guided walkthrough of how AUDA‑NEPAD's Communications team, MIS, and technical directorates collaborate on a single digital backbone to deliver engagements, summits and workplans to the public — online, mobile, and in-room.

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The big picture

Four layers, one continuous flow

Communications orchestrates the narrative, MIS provides the backbone, departments contribute domain content, and the public experiences it across every surface.

Event lifecycle · left → right
Orchestrator

Communications Team

Owns the editorial voice and the public calendar — they publish, brand, and sequence every event.

  • Approves & publishes planners
  • Crafts narratives & covers
  • Distributes & promotes links
Backbone

MIS Platform

The single digital spine: secure database, APIs, role permissions, and delivery pipelines for every channel.

  • Event Planner engine
  • JSON API + iCal feeds
  • PWA + public microsites
Contributors

Departments

Programme owners fill planners with sessions, speakers, venues, sponsors, and workplan activities.

  • Programme & Protocol
  • Partnerships & Resource Mobilization
  • Directorate focal points
Delivered to the world

Public Surfaces

Every published planner fans out to six synchronized channels — always consistent, always current.

🌐 Public microsite
https://events.auda-nepad.org/e/{event}
📱 Mobile PWA
Install‑free app
📅 iCal feeds
Outlook/Gmail sync
🔌 JSON API
Partner integrations
📇 QR codes
Signage & print
🔗 Social share
OG tags & JSON‑LD
Who does what

Three teams. One operating model.

Each group has a clearly defined role on the platform — with built-in hand-offs and safety rails so no step is missed.

Role 01 · Editorial & reach

Communications Team

The voice of AUDA‑NEPAD. They approve what the public sees, own brand consistency, and drive distribution across owned, earned and partner channels.

📝
Narrative & copyHeadlines, descriptions, speaker bios, press kits.
🖼️
Visual identityCover images, sponsor logos, gallery curation.
🚦
Publish gateFinal quality check — Draft → Live → Featured.
📣
DistributionShare links, QR codes, newsletters, embassy briefings.
Role 02 · Backbone & continuity

MIS / Platform Team

The invisible engine room. MIS guarantees uptime, data integrity, role-based access, and seamless delivery of every piece of content to every channel.

🗄️
Single source of truthOne database for sessions, speakers, venues, sponsors, assets.
🔐
Access controlRole-based permissions by department, role & event.
⚙️
Integration fabricAPIs, iCal, webhooks connecting partners & internal systems.
📈
Analytics & reportingRegistrations, reach, engagement metrics for leadership.
Role 03 · Domain expertise

Directorates & Departments

The subject-matter owners who build the substance of each event — programmes, speakers, partnerships, logistics — directly in their own workspace.

📋
Event plannersEach department gets its own planner & activity tracker.
🎙️
Programme buildingSessions, speakers, panels, workshops, side events.
🤝
Partners & sponsorsLogo tiers, partner profiles, co-branding configuration.
📍
Venues & logisticsLocation pinning, maps, room allocation, accessibility notes.
Step by step

From idea to live event — in six steps

Follow a single engagement through the platform, from the first draft by a department all the way to an attendee scanning a QR code in the room.

01
Draft
Department owner

A directorate creates a new Event Planner

A focal point in (say) the Programme directorate opens the admin console, clicks + New Planner, and instantly gets a private workspace — a unique URL slug is auto-generated the moment the planner is saved. At this stage nothing is public.

/admin/?page=tracker-create Auto‑generated short_code Visibility: Draft
02
Build
Department team

The programme is built inside the planner

The team adds sessions (day-by-day agenda), attaches speakers with bios and photos, pins the venue on a map, uploads partner logos by tier (platinum / gold / silver / …) and drops in background documents and gallery photos. Every change is saved in real-time.

📅 Agenda builder 🎙️ Speaker library 📍 Venue & map pinning 🤝 Sponsor tiers 📄 Documents & gallery
03
Review
Communications

Communications reviews & refines

Comms receive a preview link (the planner is still in Draft). They refine the headline, tighten the description, swap the cover image for a branded one, and make sure tone matches AUDA‑NEPAD's voice. They can comment, revert, or approve in-line.

Preview mode Editorial polish Brand QA
04
Publish
Communications

Comms flips the switch to Live

A single Publish action instantly generates six public surfaces: a shareable public URL, a mobile PWA deep-link, an iCal feed, a JSON API endpoint, a ready-to-print QR code, and social meta-tags for LinkedIn/Twitter/WhatsApp previews. Nothing else to configure.

/e/<slug> /appm/planner.php?code=<slug> /events-calendar-export.php?code=<slug> /api/planner?code=<slug>
05
Distribute
Communications

The link is amplified everywhere

Comms copy the short URL into newsletters, press releases, ambassadors' briefings, WhatsApp cascades, and social posts. The QR code goes to signage and invitation cards. Partners embed the public calendar via iCal or pull the JSON feed into their own websites.

One link → every channel QR for print & on-site Partners pull by API
06
Attend
Public & delegates

Delegates engage across every device

Attendees tap the link on their phone and land in the PWA — they see the agenda, star sessions, get venue directions, read speaker bios, download documents, and receive live announcements. Journalists use the public web page. Everything they see is the same data the department entered in step 02.

📱 Works offline 🔔 Live announcements 🧭 Venue navigation 📇 Personal agenda
Every channel, automatically

Publish once — reach six surfaces

Departments enter data in one place. Comms approve it once. The platform replicates it consistently everywhere the world looks.

Public Microsite

Beautiful, SEO-optimized, Playfair + gold branding. Works on every browser.

https://events.auda-nepad.org/e/<slug>

Mobile PWA

Install-free app with offline support, push notifications & QR scanner.

/appm/planner.php?code=<slug>

Calendar Feeds

Outlook, Gmail, Apple Calendar all auto-sync from a single .ics URL.

/events-calendar-export.php?code=<slug>

Open JSON API

Partner ministries, NGOs & media embed our data in their own sites.

/api/planner?code=<slug>

QR Codes & Print

HD downloadable QR for signage, invitations, roll-ups, and tent cards.

1 URL → scan → instant access

Social & SEO

OG tags + JSON‑LD Event schema — rich cards on LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Google.

Zero extra setup
See it live

The platform is already running today.

Every link, every surface shown above is working right now against live data — across all active AUDA‑NEPAD engagements.

6
Public surfaces from 1 publish
3
Collaborating team types
1
Single source of truth
0
Duplicate data entry