Sahana Foundation’s Response to Haiti Earthquake

Sahana Foundation’s Response to Haiti Earthquake 3 July 2010, Sahana Camp Fran Boon [email_address]

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

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
1 st 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.

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Sahana Foundation’s Response to Haiti Earthquake

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