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Sahana Nethope
1. Sahana
Open Source Disaster
Management Platform
Praneeth Bodduluri
PMC, Sahana – Eden Project
http://sahanafoundation.org
2. What is Sahana?
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A free & open source portable web tool
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Modules designed to address common
Disaster Management problems
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A Rapid Application Development
(RAD) platform
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3. Main Goals
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Bring efficiencies to disaster response
coordination
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Facilitate effective information exchange
between responders and beneficiaries
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Primary focus is to help victims
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6. Open Standards
Sahana’s REST controller can export and receive data in various formats:
● KML
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GeoRSS / RSS
● JSON
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XML
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EDXL-HA (Hospital A
VE Vailability Exchange)
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PFIF (Person Finder Interchange Format)
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CSV
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GPX
● XLS
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7. Tailored Tools
Tools built around the humanitarian work flows
Rapid Assessment Module – Structured reports using the
Template agreed by a group of NGOs working together as the
Emergency Capacity Building project
Report generation in various formats:
Sahana supports report generation in commonly used formats
like XLS, PDF, etc.
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8. Interoperability
Extensive support for Open Standards allows Sahana to easily exchange
information with other humanitarian projects.
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9. Interoperability
Connectivity with existing systems
Sahana Eden leverages the Python back-end to tie into existing
infrastructure/authorization systems
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LDAP
● Active Directory
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Openid
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Gmail
● Yahoo!
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Facebook
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10. RAD
Not just a family of applications – Its a Meta Framework
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Building new functionality is fast & easy
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Critical for HFOSS
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Python, Web2py
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Sahana Resource Controller
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Provides reusable components for use with Modules
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Automatically takes care of Authorization and Data export as
PDF,XLS, etc.
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Ability to use functionality from existing modules
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11. Requirements?
Minimal system requirements to run Sahana – Eden
Standalone
Windows Mac Linux
No exotic libraries or hardware needed.
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12. Requirements?
Requirements to run a Sahana – Eden server
Server
Web servers: Databases:
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Apache ●
MySQL
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Lighttpd ●
PostgreSQL
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Nginx
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Cherokee
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13. Deployments
● Flooding in Guatemala – 2010
● Earthquake in Chile – 2010
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Earthquake in Haiti – 2010
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Cyclones, National Coordinating Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB)
in Indonesia – 2009
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Cyclones, National Disaster Coordinating Council in Philippines – 2009
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Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar – 2008
● Chengdu-Sitzuan Province Earthquake, China – 2008
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Bihar Floods, India – 2008
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Ica Earthquake, Peru – 2007
● Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh – 2007
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Yogjakarta Earthquake, Indonesia – 2006
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Landslides in the Philippines– 2005
● Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistan – 2005
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Indian Ocean Tsunami in Sri Lanka – 2004
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14. Partners
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World Food Programme ●
Ushahidi
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World Health Organization ●
InSTEDD
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U.S. National Library of Medicine ●
Open Street Maps
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City of New York ●
Crisis Commons
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City University of New York ●
FortiusOne
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Naval Postgraduate School ●
IBM
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StarTides ●
Open Aerial Maps
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National Defense University ●
Crisis Mappers
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MIT Lincoln Labs ●
Project Epic
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HFOSS Project ●
University of Colorado
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Trinity College ●
healthscapes.org
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Carnegie Mellon University ●
humanityroad.org
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15. Community
A global voluntary team of developers and
experts including:
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Emergency Managers
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Relief Workers
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ICT Specialists and Researchers
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Humanitarian Activists
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Nurses and other Public
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Health Experts
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FOSS developers
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16. Support
Sahana Community Support:
Main discussion list : discuss@lists.sahanafoundation.org
Sahana Eden list: sahana-eden@googlegroups.com
IRC Chat: irc.freenode.net
#Sahana, #Sahana-Eden
Commercial Support:
AIDIQ - info@aidiq.com
Respere - info@respere.com
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17. Sahana
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Freedom to use, analyze, modify and re-distribute
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Available for everybody at no cost
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Open for research and development
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Collaboratively developed by a Global community
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