Maldives SAMBRO CAP on a Map project kickoff workshop: http://sahanafoundation.org/cap-on-a-map-kickoff-maldives/

1. Sahana Opens Source Ecosystem for supplying
Disaster Management IT Systems
Nuwan Waidyanatha
Director - Sahana Software Foundation
nuwan[AT]sahanafoundation[DOT]org
http://www.lirneasia.net/profiles/nuwan-waidyanatha
Mobile: +94773710394 (Int'l Roaming) +8613888446352 (cn)
CAP on a Map Kickoff Workshop – Improving Institutional Responsiveness to
Coastal Hazards through Multi Agency Situational Awareness
2015 April 15
Nasandura Palace Hote, Male, Maldives

2. Outline
❑ Doctrine
❑ History
❑ Foundation
❑ Software
❑ Users
❑ Solutions
❑ Sahana COE @ AIT
❑ Contact Us

3. CAP on a Map Maldives Kickoff Workshop
http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/Event/2015/CAP_MV_NDMC
Workshop information:

4. If you were to manage it manually
❑ Channels N(N-1)/2 = O(N2)
❑ Information Lost in relay and propagation
❑ Redundant Data Collection
❑ Inconsistent Terminology
❑ Manual Collation / Calculation
❑ Delayed Situational-Awareness
N=5
N=8
N=16

5. Can IT 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 Situation Awareness
 Reports are updated live as data goes in
IT Improves Manageability = TotalTime/∑ Weighti∗Timei∗Stepsi 

6. How Sahana got started
Immediate
Requirement
Immediate
Requirement
Sri Lankan
IT Community
Sri Lankan
IT Community
Sahana
Software
Sahana
Software
Lanka Software Foundation
Lanka Linux User Group
IT Industry
Academia

7. Deployments aiding major catestrophies
2006
2013
2012
2011
2010
20092008
2007
2005
Tsunami,
Sri Lanka
Kashmir
Earthquake,
Pakistan
Landslide,
Philippines
Yogjakarta
Earthquake,
Indonesia
Cyclone
Sidr,
Bangladesh
Ica
Earthquake,
Peru
Bihar
Floods,
India
Cyclone
Nargis,
Myanmar
Sichuan
Earthquake,
China
Earthquake,
Haiti
Earthquake,
Chile
Floods,
Pakistan
Hurricane in
Veracruz,
Mexico
Floods,
Venezuela
Floods in
Colombia
Christchurch
Earthquake,
New Zealand
Earthquake &
Tsunami in
Japan
Tornado in
Joplin,
Missouri
Typhoon
Yolanda/
Haiyan
Philippines
Wildfire,
Chile
Hurricane
Sandy, USA
Floods,
Sri Lanka

8. Sahana Software Foundation: Community of Practice
Sahana
Community
Free & Open
Source
Software
Community
Emergency
Management
Community
Academic &
Research
Community
Humanitarian
Community
(NGOs / Gov)
SahanaCamps – technical
training sessions for
anyone wanting learn how
to use and develop with
Sahana
Implementation training –
specialized focused
training for organizations
adopting Sahana for
specific disaster
management activities
 Sahana Software Foundation (501c3)
 Google
 Google Summer of Code
 Google Code-In
 Documentation:
 Wiki
 Book
 Mailing List
 IRC
 Commercial Companies

9. Sahana Center of Excellence at AIT Geoinformatics
 Sahana CEO @ AIT is a program being
developed with the Geoinformatics Center
(GIC) of AIT
 December 2013 held the first 2 day work
SahanaCamp at GIC (support of
JAXA/AIT):
http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/Event
/2013/AIT
 Building a program and services to
sustain SAHANA deployments. Starting
with Maldives and the Philippines (support
of UNESCAP
 Continue offering, primarily Asia and the
Pacific with preparedness and response
solutions/services for building resilient
communities

10. Full Scope of Multi Agency Situational Awareness
functions
ALERTING
(CAP)
REPORTING
(SITREP)
scope
architecture
keep it Simple

11. Deployment Options
Host locally in the
command center
on a Laptop
Host in the
Cloud
Synchronize these 2 together...

12. Social Media Integration

13. Avid users
Red Cross
UN World Food Programme
Asia Disaster Preparedness Center
Philippines Government: DSWD
Nepal Government: DHM
Timor-Leste Government: NDMD
City of Los Angeles
India, Japan, Taiwan, Portugal

14. IFRC Resource Management System
“The RMS isn’t just a piece of software. For the first time in the history of the Red
Cross and Red Crescent, RMS enables National Societies to view and analyze
hazards and vulnerabilities together with their material and human resources like
volunteers, staff, offices and warehouses on a digital up to date map to examine how
well its people and resources are positioned.”
- John Gwynn, Head of Organisational Development
IFRC Asia Pacific zone

15. Community Resilience Mapping Tool
 CRMT provides coalition members with the
opportunity to create maps of their neighborhoods
that can be overlaid
 Help make communities better prepared with
good information about their situation
 System brings together
 2010 Census Data,
 2011 American Community Survey data,
 USGS and California Geological Survey Hazards
data,
 FEMA flood zone data,
 70,000 points of interest within LA County:
schools, churches, health facilities, government
offices, municipal services, social services
agencies, arts and recreation facilities

16. Disaster Risk Reduction Portal
 An initiative of the UNISDR Asia Partnership on
Disaster Reduction (IAP)
 Funding support from the Asian Development Bank
(ADP)
 Executed by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
(ADPC)
 http://www.drrprojects.net/
 Features
 Project list – a searchable list including links to
lead organizations and donors of the projects;
projects can be entered by any user
 Customizable graphs and matrix reports – helping
to visualize trends; graphs can be downloaded as
images
 Interactive map showing DRR projects by country
– risk layers such as tsunami risk can be shown
on the map
 List of downloadable DRR frameworks, strategies
and roadmaps
 ‘My Page’ where logged in users can save
searches, graphs and maps, and subscribe to
email updates

17. Climate Data Portal
 Consolidate and standardize old data
 Build an asset of climate data
 Apply climate models (built using 'R')
 Share data with other analysts
 Project advocated and managed by
ADPC

18. Perspective of Timor Leste Deployment

19. Thank You
Nuwan Waidyanatha
Nuwan [AT] sahanafoundation [DOT] org
www.sahanafoundation.org