Sahana AIDF General Brief

Sahana Free & Open Source Disaster Information Management Software http://www.SahanaFoundation.org “No innovation matters more than that which saves lives” Avelino J. Cruz, Jr., Secretary of National Defence of the Philippines on the use of Sahana following disastrous mudslides in 2005 July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 1

Sahana What is Sahana? • A free & open source portable web tool • Modules designed to address common Disaster Management problems • A Rapid Application Development (RAD) platform Main Goals • Bring efficiencies to disaster response coordination • Facilitate effective information exchange between responders and beneficiaries • Primary focus is to help victims July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 2

The Historic Trigger: 12/26/04 Indian Ocean Tsunami • At least 226,000 dead • Up to 5 million people lost 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 July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 3

Problem: Aftermath of Disasters • The trauma caused by waiting to be found or find the next of kin • Coordinating all aid groups and helping them to operate effectively as one • Managing the multitude of requests from the affected region and matching them effectively to the pledges of assistance • Tracking the location of all temporary shelters, camps, etc. July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 4

How Can Technology Help? • Scalable management of information  No stacks of forms and files to manage • Efficient distribution of information  Accessibility of information on demand • Automatic collation and calculation  No delay for assessments and calculations • Live situational awareness  Reports are updated live as data is entered July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 5

Sahana first deployed by Sri Lanka following tsunami July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 6

Sahana Core Modules • Organization Registry  Maintains data (contact, services, etc) of groups, organizations and volunteers responding to the disaster • Missing Persons / Disaster Victim Registry  Helps track and find missing, deceased, injured and displaced people and families July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 7

Sahana Core Modules • Request Management  Tracks all requests and helps match pledges for support, aid and supplies to fulfilment • Location Registry  Tracks data on all important places to the disaster response, such as temporary shelters and medical facilities July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 8

Sahana Functionality Overview • Situation Awareness • Resource Management  Geospatial Database  Volunteer Management  Situation Mapping  Project Management  Charts & Reporting  Logistics Management  Inventory Management • Person Management  Hospital Management  Person Database  Food Aid Request Portal  Victim Tracking & Tracing  Aid Catalogue  Disaster Victim Identification  Missing Persons Registry • Communication & Alerting  E-mail & SMS • Aid Management  Integration with Situation  Organization Registry Mapping  Shelter Registry  Alerting System (CAP)  Request Management  Alert Aggregation July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 9

Sahana Technology and Features • Environments • Linux, Windows, Portable App • VM, LiveCD, LiveUSB • Translation & Localization • Pootle, Character sets • Right-to-left scripting • Messaging: • SMS, GPRS, e-mail • GIS & Open Standards: • KML, WMS, GeoRSS, WFS • EDXL, CAP, JSON, XML • Mobile Accessibility • Android, iPhone, iPad • Blackberry, NetBooks, Cellphones 27 May 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 10

Major Sahana Disaster Deployments • Flooding in Guatemala – 2010 • Earthquake in Chile – 2010 • Earthquake in Haiti – 2010 • National Coordinating Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) in Indonesia – 2009 • National Disaster Coordinating Council in Philippines – 2009 • Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar – 2008 • Chengdu-Sitzuan Province Earthquake, China – 2008 • Bihar Floods, India – 2008 • Ica Earthquake, Peru – 2007 • Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh – 2007 • Yogjakarta Earthquake, Indonesia – 2006 • Landslides in the Philippines– 2005 • Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistan – 2005 • Indian Ocean Tsunami in Sri Lanka – 2005 27 May 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 11

Other Sahana Deployments: Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness • Vietnam – 2010 • Taiwan - 2010 • Ministry of Rehabilitation, Sri Lanka – 2010 • Bethesda Hospitals Emergency Preparedness Partnership, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland - 2009 • National Disaster Management Center & Ministry of Resettlement & Disaster Relief Services, Sri Lanka – 2009 • Sarvodaya (NGO), Sri Lanka – 2008 • Coastal Storm Plan in New York City – 2007 27 May 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 12

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 • SHG Good Samaritan Award – 2006 • Sourceforge Project of the Month – June 2006 • User Award from Redhat Summit – 2005 July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 13

Case Studies • ICT for Disaster Risk Reduction 2, UN Asian Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communications Technology for Development, 2010 • UNESCAP Technical Paper: A Case Study of the Sahana Disaster Management System of Sri Lanka – 2009 • Communications of the ACM: Revitalizing Computing Education Through Free and Open Source Software for Humanity – 2009 • Disaster Resource Guide Quarterly: New Open Source Software Could Greatly Improve Federal and State Disaster Relief Operations – 2008 • Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme ePrimer: ICT for Disaster Management – 2007 • UNDP IOSN Case Study on Sahana – 2006 • BBC Documentary, The Codebreakers – 2006 July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 14

The Sahana Community • A global voluntary team of developers and experts including:  Emergency Managers  Relief Workers  ICT Specialists and Researchers  Experienced FOSS developers Global collaboration for  Humanitarian Activists the global public good  Nurses and other Public Health Experts July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 15

Sahana Software Foundation • Established as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in state of California June 2009 • Took over Governance of Sahana from Lanka Software Foundation (Sri Lanka) • Mission:  To help alleviate human suffering by giving emergency managers, disaster response professionals and communities access to the information that they need to better prepare for and respond to disasters through the use of free and open source software and open standards. July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 16

Sahana FOSS Projects • Two technical and one coordination project:  Sahana Agasti (PHP) – LGPL v.3  Sahana Eden (Web2Py) – MIT License  Sahana Standards and Interoperability • Codebase now hosted on Launchpad  http://www.launchpad.net/Sahana  Wiki: http://wiki.sahanafoundation.org July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 17

Engage with Sahana Community • Join the Sahana developer's discussion lists and introduce yourself:  Main developer's discussion list (and Sahana Agasti (PHP) primary list): Sahana-maindev@lists.sourceforge.net.  Sahana Eden (Web2Py) developers' discussion list: sahana-eden@googlegroups.com • Join IRC Chat on irc.freenode.net:  #Sahana, #Sahana-Eden, #Sahana-GIS • Get support from the Sahana Community Development Committee  community@sahanafoundation.org July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 18

FOSS Technology Partners • World Food Programme • Ushahidi • World Health Organization • InSTEDD • National Library of • Open Street Maps Medicine • Crisis Commons • City of New York • FortiusOne  City University of New York • Google • Naval Postgraduate School • Cisco • StarTides • IBM  National Defense University • Open Aerial Maps • MIT Lincoln Labs • Crisis Mappers • HFOSS Project • Project Epic  Trinity College  University of Colorado • Carnegie Mellon University July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 19

How can Sahana help you? Sahana provides • a collaborative environment for sharing disaster- related data between organizations. • a powerful integration platform to leverage and aggregate data from any open data source like Open Street Maps, social networking tools like Twitter, or SMS/MMS from cellphones and smartphones. • a transactional database driven solution for disaster data information management. • situational awareness through its ability to geographically represent all available data. July 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 20

Sahana A Global Free and Open Source Project 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 Mark Prutsalis, President & CEO Sahana Software Foundation mark@SahanaFoundation.org @SahanaFOSS #Sahana http://www.slideshare.net/SahanaFOSS 27 May 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 21

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