Port Community Systems (PCS): How Digitalization Connects People and Processes

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TIPO DE CURSO

SELF-PACED

FECHAS

Oct 02, 2023 - Dic 17, 2023

PRÓXIMAS EDICIONES

2024 TBD

PRECIO

Free

IDIOMA

Inglés

ESFUERZO

24 hours

SOBRE ESTE CURSO

This course will introduce you to the concept of a Port Community System (PCS), a neutral and open electronic platform enabling intelligent and secure exchange of information between public and private stakeholders in a seaport community. The implementation of a PCS can improve the competitive position of the port by increasing efficiency and by providing better and more transparent service to its users. The course offers new perspectives on PCS and the tools needed to implement them, including useful readiness assessment templates and governance models.

AUDIENCIA DEL CURSO

The audience for this course is members of the port community, including directors and technical staff at public sector agencies, and individuals within the private and academic sectors, who want to gain a better understanding and learn the international best practices of implementing a port community system, or PCS.

COSTOS Y REEMBOLSOS

The course development costs have been covered with IDB resources.

ESTRUCTURA DEL CURSO

Module 1: Port Communities and Port Community Actors

Establishing a Port Community System (PCS) is a change management project and technological platform that requires collaboration among members of the port community. Through text, videos, and short activities, Module 1 examines the significant roles that port communities, port community actors, and port community committees play in implementing a PCS. Module 1 also addresses how port digitalization aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Module 2: PCS Services and Impact

This module introduces the port community system, or PCS, and showcases how a PCS connects port community actors to achieve greater efficiencies through mutual benefits like centralized communications and shared data.

Module 3: Governance and Institutional Framework

This module examines three PCS ownership models through theory and international case studies and prompts you to consider what the best approach would be in your port community.

Module 4: Building and Sustaining the PCS

This module guides the conceptual design and implementation of a port community system, including planning services and identifying resource needs, operational costs, and revenues, while emphasizing the importance of information security throughout the system. 

Module 5: PCS Readiness Assessment

This module provides a practical tool for port communities to assess their readiness to implement a PCS in their ports. 

Module 6: Looking Forward - Port Community Systems and Emerging Technologies (optional)

The implementation of a port community system and the digitalization of port operations are closely related to the digital transformation and to the development of smart ports that leverage emerging technologies to increase port efficiencies. This module includes a sampling of international smart port initiatives and provides an overview of the technological and legal ecosystem needed to implement a smart port, based on international best practices, and it concludes with a call to action.

Module 7: Develop a PCS Communication Plan (optional)

In this optional module, you have the opportunity to develop an advocacy communication plan in which you identify PCS stakeholders in your port community along with their key characteristics, which will help you develop a strategy and timeline for advocating for PCS implementation. Your work from prior course modules, including your port community actor network sketch, prioritized PCS services, and identified PCS implementation benefits and challenges, will be useful to completing the plan.