How to register your organization on Aidstream
To start publishing information on your projects through AidStream, you will first need to register your organisation by following these steps:
- On the AidStream homepage, click on the blue 'Get Started' button and complete the registration form to register your organisation on AidStream.
- You can also access the registration page by clicking on the 'Login/Register' button located on the top right corner. Once on the login page, scroll down and click on 'Create an account' which will take you to the Registration form (as shown below)
The registration process has been separated into three steps.
- Organisation Information - In this step you will be asked to fill out your organisation’s information
- Administrator Information - In this step you will be asked to fill out the administrator user’s information. You will also have the option to add other users in this step.
- Email Verification - This is the final step. You will have to verify the email address associated with the administrator user account to start using AidStream.
Organisation Name: The name of your organisation which will be publishing the data. It has to be unique and should not have been used before on AidStream.
Organisation name abbreviation: A abbreviation is already generated based on the organisation name ( if org name = ‘example’ abv= ‘e’ and if org name = ‘exa mple’ abv= ‘em’). It is also possible to edit the abbreviation and make your own one. The abbreviation will be used to generate usernames for your organisation’s AidStream account holders. In rare cases the abbreviation can already be taken so it is preferred to make a unique one yourself.
Organisation Type: This can be chosen from a drop down menu that appears when you click it. Choose the type of organisation that your organisation can be categorized into.
Organisation address: The official address of the organisation.
Organisation country: This is the country that your organisation belongs to or is officially registered to.
Organisation Registration agency: It is the agency where the organization has been registered. The agencies are generated according to the country selected.
Registration number: A number that has been given to an organisation by an official registry of organisations (for example, a national company registrar, or drawn from a government register of charities).
Organisational IATI Identifier: This is the unique identifier for the organisation, which should be generated as per the standard.
After all the information is filled we move on to the next one which is the administrator information.
In this step, you will have to fill out the following information of the administrator user.
Username: The user name will be a combination of the abbreviation and the word ‘admin’. (Example ‘ex_admin) The username will be auto-generated for the administrator.
Password: The password will be used to login to the administrator account.
First/last name: The first and last name of the administrator of the organisation account.
Email address: The official email address that will be used for the administrator account. This email address is important as a lot of recovery processes will require this address.
Secondary Contact at organisation: The secondary contact at organisation is an important for a certain number of reasons. Mainly this comes in handy to recover the administrator account information if the administrator of the organisation lose their login credential for various reasons, such as when someone from the organisation leaves. activities stops.
AidStream supports multiple user accounts associated with an organisation account. In this step, you have the option to add other user accounts during registration itself. To add another user, click on ‘add additional users now’. You will have to provide following information about the user;
- Username: The new username for the new or added user
- Email address: A new email address to be used for registering the user
- First/Last name: The name information for the user
- Permission: What permissions will the user have (publishing,editing,deleting….)
You will always have the option to create more users once you have registered your organisation account from the users section on the settings page.
Once the forms are filled a verification email is sent to the email address. Once the email address has been verified, then only an email is sent to the secondary contact and others users.
During email verification, ‘Connect me’ link brings you to AidStream. For the administrator user, you have the option to add Publisher ID and API key. But you can add these information later as well. For other user account, you will be asked to set your password for your account. Click here to understand the process of registering to IATI
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