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Sahana Software Foundation presentation to the HFOSS track at the 2011 Open World Forum, September 23, 2011TRANSCRIPT
Making Chaos Manageable
“No innovation matters morethan that which saves lives”
Avelino J. Cruz, Jr., Secretary of National Defense of the Philippineson the use of Sahana following disastrous mudslides in 2005
Mark PrutsalisPresident & CEO, Sahana Software Foundation
2011 Open World Forum23 September 2011
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The Sahana Software Foundation is dedicated to the mission of saving lives by providing information management solutions that enable organizations and communities to better prepare for and respond to disasters.
We develop free and open source software and provide services that help solve concrete problems and bring efficiencies to disaster response coordination between governments, aid organizations, civil society and the victims themselves.
Sahana Software Foundation
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Sahana Software
Sahana free and open source software helps bring efficiencies to disaster response coordination:
Reuniting separated families through registering missing and found persons
Tracking and managing requests for help from individuals and organizations
Tracking organizations and programs responding to the disaster, including the coverage and balance in the distribution of aid, providing transparency
Enabling relevant sharing of information across organizations, connecting donors, volunteers, NGOs, and government organizations, enabling them to operate as one
Primary focus is always to help victims
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The Historic Trigger 2004 :Indian Ocean
Earthquake & TsunamiAt least 226,000 dead
Up to 5 million people lost their homes, or access to food and water
1 million people left without a means to make a living
At least $7.5 billion in the cost of damages
“Facts and Figures Asian Tsunami Disaster” :New Scientist, 20 January 2005
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Core Capabilities
Organization & Volunteer Registry
Understanding 4W “Who What :Where When” Maintains data :(contacts, services) of groups, organizations, staff, and volunteers responding to the disaster
Missing Persons / Disaster Victims Registry
Helps track and find missing and found, deceased, injured and displaced people and families
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Core Capabilities
Request and Donations Management
Manages all requests, assessments and incident reports and helps match commitments for support, donations, aid and supplies through to fulfillment
Geospatial Analysis
Provides situational awareness of all important locations to the disaster response, such as shelters, hospitals, warehouses, incident reports, and assessments.
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Functionality Overview
Situation AwarenessGeospatial DatabaseSituation MappingCharts & ReportingAssessment CollectionSituation & Incident ReportingBiosurveillance
Resource ManagementVolunteer and Staff ManagementScenario PlanningProject Tracking and ManagementLogistics ManagementInventory ManagementHospital ManagementFood Aid Request ManagementDonations Management
Person ManagementPerson RegistryVictim Tracking & TracingDisaster Victim IdentificationMissing Persons Registry
Aid ManagementOrganization RegistryShelter RegistryRequest Management
Communications & AlertingE-mail & SMSMobile Apps (iPhone & Android)Alerting System (CAP)Alert Aggregation
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Sahana Software Projects
Eden – Emergency Development Environment
flexible rapid application development platform with a rich feature set
capabilities include logistics, :staffing and volunteers, organizations, hospitals, shelters, assessments, incident reports, disaster victim identification, donations management, mapping, messaging, person finder.
designed for humanitarian organizations and agencies engaged in disaster relief.
Agasti
Vesuvius – Developed by US National Library of Medicine – provides Lost Person Finder & Hospital Triage Management
Mayon – Developed by City University of New York or NYC OEM – provides Emergency Resource Management and Scenario Planning for large municipalities
Standards & Interoperability
Promotes adoption of open data standards and interoperability between humanitarian FOSS projects.
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Technology and Features
EnvironmentsLinux, Windows, OSXPortable App, VM
Translation & LocalizationPootle, Character SetsRight-to-left scripting
Open Data StandardsKML, WMS, GeoRSS, WPSEDXL, CAP, JSON, XML
Mobile AccessibilityJ2ME, HTML 5, XformsJavaRosa, OCR
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Major Disaster DeploymentsHurricane Irene in New York – 2011Tornado in Joplin, Missouri - 2011Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan – 2011Christchurch Earthquake in New Zealand - 2011Flooding in Colombia – 2011Flooding in Venezuela – 2010Flooding in Pakistan – 2010Hurricane in Veracruz, Mexico – 2010Earthquake in Chile – 2010Earthquake in Haiti – 2010Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar – 2008Chengdu-Sitzuan Province Earthquake, China – 2008Bihar Floods, India – 2008Ica Earthquake, Peru – 2007Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh – 2007Yogjakarta Earthquake, Indonesia – 2006Landslides in the Philippines– 2005Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistan – 2005Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami in Sri Lanka – 2004
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Pre-Disaster Deployments
Bombeiros in Portugal - 2011IFRC Asia Pacific Disaster Management Unit – 2010Philippines Red Cross in the Philippines – 2010SahanaTaiwan, Academia Sinica, in Taiwan – 2010Asia Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand – 2010National Disaster Relief Services Center, Sri Lanka – 2010National Coordinating Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) in Indonesia – 2009 National Disaster Coordinating Council in the Philippines – 2009US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland - 2009LirneAsia, Bio-Surveillance, Sri Lanka and India - 2008Sarvodaya (NGO), Sri Lanka – 2008Office of Emergency Management in New York City – 2007
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City of New YorkShelter Management
Sahana Mayon – Scenario Management Defines:Scenarios
Resource Types
Facility Groups
Staff Requirements
Staff Pools and Shifts
Sahana Vesuvius
Family and Individual Registration at Shelters
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Sahana Vesuvius Capabilities
Event Manager
Report a Person (Web Form)
Full Person Record & Edits
TriagePic
Search for a Person
Report a Person by E-mail
ReUnite iPhone App
PFIF Interoperability with Google Person Finder
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2011 Sendai (Japan) Earthquake & Tsunami
Sahana Japan Team:Hyogontech
IBM Japan
SSF
http //sahana.jp:Sahana Eden
1200 shelters>Organizations
Soup Kitchens
Volunteer Activities
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Awards
Gartner Inc. Cool Vendor in Risk Management and Compliance – 2010
Best Practices Award from Public Private Businesses, Inc. – 2010
Sourceforge Community Choice Awards Best Project for Government Finalist – 2009
Free Software Foundation Award for Social Benefit – 2006
Sand Hill Group Good Samaritan Award – 2006
Sourceforge Project of the Month – June 2006
User Award from Redhat Summit – 2005
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Case Studies
UN Foundation Disaster Relief 2.0 The Future of Information Sharing in : :Humanitarian Emergencies, 2011ICT for Disaster Risk Reduction 2, Asian Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communications Technology for Development, 2010Gartner Inc. Sahana Humanitarian Disaster Management and Collaboration : :System, June 16, 2010.ISCRAM The Sahana Software Foundation response to the 2010 Haiti :Earthquake - 2010UNESCAP Technical Paper A Case Study of the Sahana Disaster Management :System of Sri Lanka – 2009Communications of the ACM (CACM) Revitalizing Computing Education Through :Free and Open Source Software for Humanity – 2009Disaster Resource Guide Quarterly New Open Source Software Could Greatly :Improve Federal and State Disaster Relief Operations – 2008Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme ePrimer ICT for Disaster :Management – 2007CACM Open Source Software for Disaster Management - 2007:UNDP IOSN Case Study on Sahana – 2006BBC Documentary, The Codebreakers – 2006
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The Sahana Community
A unique global voluntary team of developers and experts:
Emergency ManagersRelief WorkersExperienced FOSS DevelopersICT SpecialistsResearchersHumanitarian ActivistsMedical and Public Health Professionals
Global collaboration for the global public good
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SSF Community Development Programs
Our Vision is to build and sustain a global open and collaborative community of contributors to information and communications technologies for disaster management. To this end, we support:
Google Summer of Code / Google Code-In
RHoK / GWOB Hackathons
Grace Hopper Celebration Codeathon for Humanity
HFOSS Project & ISCRAM Partnership
SahanaCamps
GET INVOLVED TODAY!
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Freedom to use, analyze, modify and re-distribute
Available for everybody at no cost
Open for research and development
Collaboratively developed by a Global community
Sahana Software Foundation
http //SahanaFoundation.org:[email protected]
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