sahana foundation’s response to haiti earthquake
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Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Rapidly-changing requirements• Missing Person Registry• Mapping• Organization Registry• Hospital Management• Volunteer Registry• WFP: Food Request Portal
Missing Person Registry
• We persuaded the response community to standardize on PFIF as a tool for interoperability
• Google provided a multilingual widget for embedding into sites
• US National Library of Medicine built a Sahana front-end called iWall
PFIF
Mapping• High-resolution Satellite Imagery
available quickly (26 hrs)• OpenStreetMap volunteers used this & old
printed maps to quickly cover Port-au-Prince
• These were made available as basemaps on handheld GPS
Mapping
• Texts from people trapped under the rubble were geolocated using these maps
• 1st Responders were given coordinates for where to look & had the GPS basemaps
Organization Registry
• Army of volunteers input data from a multitude of spreadsheets– We had the best data & it was accessible
•Hospital Management– We had the best data & it was accessible– EDXL-HAVE compliant
•Volunteer Management– Built in 48 hours!
Request Management
• ‘Closing the Loop’ for data from:– SMS (4636)– Twitter (Tweak the Tweet)
• Matching Requests with Pledges• RSS feeds provided by these projects
were parsed & put into new UI
Food Requests Portal
• World Food Programme• Implementing Partners request Food
deliveries for their zones• WFP approves & schedules collection
or delivery (with armed escort, where-requested)
• SMS Notifications
Infrastructrure• NetHope & Inveneo• Long-distance WiFi links to provide
connectivity for NGOs & Medical teams.
Making Do
Lost in the Clouds