Sahana Software Foundation Briefing on Haiti response efforts.

1. Sahana
Free & Open Source
Disaster Management System
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
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2. 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
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3. 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
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4. Sahana Core Modules
• Request Management
Tracks all requests and
helps match pledges for
support, aid and supplies
to fulfilment
• Shelter Registry
Tracks data on all
temporary shelters setup
following the Disaster
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5. Sahana Deployments
• Asian Tsunami in Sri Lanka – 2005
• Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistan – 2005
• Landslide disaster in Philippines– 2005
• Yogjakarta Earthquake, Indonesia – 2006
• Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh – 2007
• Coastal Storm Plan in New York City – 2007
• Ica Earthquake, Peru – 2007
• Sarvodaya (NGO), Sri Lanka - 2008
• Bihar Floods, India - 2008
• Chendu-Sitzuan Province Earthquake, China – 2008
• National Disaster Management Center & Ministry of Resettlement &
Disaster Relief Services, Sri Lanka – 2009
• Bethesda Hospitals Emergency Preparedness Partnership, Maryland - 2009
• National Disaster Coordinating Council in Philippines – 2009
• National Coordinating Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) in
Indonesia - 2009
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6. Recognition
• UNESCAP Technical Paper: A Case Study of the Sahana Disaster Management
System of Sri Lanka – 2009
• Sourceforge Community Choice Awards Best Project for Government Finalist –
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
• Free Software Foundation Award for Social Benefit – 2006
• SHG Good Samaritan Award – 2006
• BBC Documentary, The Codebreakers – 2006
• Sourceforge Project of the Month – June 2006
• User Award from Redhat Summit – 2005
• ICTA Awards to contributors - 2005
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7. 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
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8. Haiti Earthquake Response
http://Haiti.SahanaFoundation.org
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10. Phase I: Organization Registry
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12. Phase II: Request Management
Support for First Responders
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16. Phase III: Hospital Management
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19. Phase IV: World Food Programme
WFP Food Request Portal
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22. WFP Food Request Portal
• Coordinates requests for food to be distributed by
implementing partners (IPs)
• IPs define where food distribution centers are, caseload, and
request food.
• WFP does plan for distribution, sends updates via SMS
(Clickatel)
• Links OR, RMS, HMS to WFP business processes
• System going live within weeks
• Sahana Software Foundation develops, hosts and supports
for 3-months
• Potential to become global management system for WFP
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23. 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
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24. Open Source
Technology Partners
• Ushahidi
• InSTEDD
• FortiusOne / Geocommons
• Open Solutions Group/ Telascience
• Mindtel / Synergy Strike Force
• Star-Tides (NDU)
• Crisis Mappers
• Crisis Commons / Crisis Camps
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25. Partners
• Client: 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
UN AGENCIES: PAHO, OCHA, WFP, UNHCR
OASIS
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26. NLM People Finder
• http://hepl.nlm.nih.gov/inw
• Built on Sahana Missing Persons Registry
• Uses PFIF to exchange and update data from:
Google’s main missing/found persons registry
CNN’s iReport Haiti
• Provides more user-friendly front-end for
those searching for loved ones while not
duplicating effort
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28. 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
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