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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 03 June 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 03 June 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 03 June 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. 03 June 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 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 5

Sahana first deployed by Sri Lanka following tsunami 03 June 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 03 June 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 03 June 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 03 June 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 03 June 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 • Landslide disaster in Philippines– 2005 • Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistan – 2005 • Asian Tsunami in Sri Lanka – 2005 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 11

Other Sahana Deployments: Recovery, Mitigation, Preparedness • Vietnam – 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 03 June 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 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 13

Case Studies • 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 03 June 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 03 June 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. 03 June 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 • Ideas:  http://wiki.sahanafoundation.org/doku.php/req:start  http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/BluePrints 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 17

Recent Advancements in Sahana: GIS, Situational Awareness and Data Collection 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 18

$400* Netbook as Server * 2007 price 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 19

Remote Data Collection on OLPC 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 20

SahanaSMS Android App • Embeds GPS coordinates within SMS messages to Sahana. • Allows users to send and view data on maps. • Similar apps planned for Blackberry, iPhone, PalmPre, and java-capable cell-phones. 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 21

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EDXL-HAVE • OASIS Standard for EDXL- Hospital AVailability Exchange • Developed & Promoted by US DHS S & T • Sahana’s Hospital Management System data schema compliant • Adopted by PAHO and other responding agencies. 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 29

Open Standards • Sahana’s REST controller publishes all data:  KML  GeoRSS / RSS  JSON  XML  EDXL-HAVE (Hospital AVailability Exchange)  PFIF (Person Finder Interchange Format)  CSV  GPX  XLS 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 32

Logistics • Basic Principle: Get things and people to right place, at right time, for right price. • Must organize:  Procurement  Transport  Warehousing  Distribution • Must provide:  Accountability  Reporting 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 33

Design for Sahana Logistics (1) 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 34

Design for Sahana Logistics (2) 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 35

Sahana Logistics Management • Designed from Experience  1999 Kocaeli Earthquake, Turkey  2001 Gujarat Earthquake, India  2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami  2005 Kashmir Earthquake  2010 Haiti Earthquake • Current Capabilities  Existing modules used by several NGOs o Inventory Management & Aid Catalogue  2 Google Summer of Code Projects: o Warehouse & Shipments Management 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 36

FOSS Technology Partners • HFOSS Project – Trinity College • Ushahidi • InSTEDD • Google • Cisco • IBM • Open Street Maps • FortiusOne / Geocommons • Open Aerial Maps • Telascience • Crisis Mappers • Crisis Commons • Mindtel / Synergy Strike Force • Open Solutions Group 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 37

New Stakeholders • UN World Food Programme (WFP) • Users:  SOUTHCOM  USCG  Responding Agencies & Hospitals in Haiti • Strategic Partners  USG AGENCIES: HHS, STATE, USAID, CDC, DHS S & T, FEMA, NPS, NDU StarTides  UN AGENCIES: PAHO, OCHA, WFP, UNHCR  OASIS, NIUSR, ISCRAM 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 38

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 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. 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 39

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 03 June 2010 http://www.SahanaFoundation.org 40

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