ICT based responses to the tsunami: InfoShare's experience

Slide 1: Info Share and tsunami relief Sanjana Hattotuwa

Slide 3: 7:00 AM: Indonesia Reports Earthquake

Slide 4: 7:05 AM: Colombo Gets Earthquake Report

Slide 5: 10,500 DEAD 8:27 AM: Tsunami Hits Kalmunai

Slide 6: 23,000 DEAD 8:55 AM: Tsunami hits Trinco and Batticaloa

Slide 7: 30,000+ DEAD 9:30 AM: Tsunami Hits Galle, Kalutara and more

Slide 16: 31,000+ dead Over a million displaced

Slide 17: Info Share’s tsunami relief system • 1st in Sri Lanka to be operational • At it’s peak, had around 180 individuals from local, regional and international NGOs, aid agencies, UN system, bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors, governments and military • Has over 1Gb of data • Largest repository of information on the tsunami relief efforts in Sri Lanka – GIS maps, satellite imagery, documents, photos, video • Information portal can be accessed by the Info Share website

Slide 18: Tsunami Relief System

Slide 19: Tsunami relief library

Slide 20: Organisation database

Slide 21: File repositories

Slide 22: Web link collections

Slide 23: News Aggregation

Slide 24: Discussions & Announcements

Slide 25: Sri Lanka file database

Slide 26: Info Share website

Slide 27: Relief library web access

Slide 28: Tsunami relief portal

Slide 29: Thank You