Key Indicator Data System

Following a period of intense redevelopment, the first public KIDS-3g website has been released. You can see this KIDS-3g client at http://kids.fao.org/glipha/index.html. Work is currently underway to make KIDS-3g generally available. However, KIDS-2 will also continue to be supported.

Some of the new features of KIDS-3g include a more advanced GIS functionality that supports geo-features that change over time and multiple versions of geo-layers, as well as the possibility to support multiple sources of data. 

The new version of the KIDS data repository comprises a radical departure from previous versions in that it is based on a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), which means that services are distributed to users/applications according to their needs while individual users are no longer required to download and install their own instances of the application.