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Sahana : Case Studies 3 November 2010, Sahana Camp Fran Boon & Michael Howden [email protected] [email protected]

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Sahana :Case Studies

3 November 2010, Sahana Camp

Fran Boon & Michael Howden

[email protected]

[email protected]

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Overview

• Haiti Earthquake, January 2010• Food Requests Portal• Pakistan Floods, July 2010• Veracruz Cyclone, September 2010• DRR Project Portal

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Haiti, January 2010

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Rapidly-changing requirements• Missing Person Registry• Mapping• Organization Registry• Hospital Management• Volunteer Registry• WFP: Food Request Portal

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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

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PFIF

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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

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Mapping

• Texts from people trapped under the rubble were geolocated using these maps• 1st Responders were given

coordinates for where to look & had the GPS basemaps

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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!

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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

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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

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Pakistan Floods 2010• Largest Emergency in History of UN

• Community response effort

• Worked with Rotary Club in Pakistan

• Rapidly implemented new structured data models

• Implemented new features:• Rapid Assessment Tool

• Right to Left support

• Mapping Tools

• Inventory

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Sahana Didn’t Work!

• When a disaster hits it is too late to deploy

• Lack of baseline data – locations

• No Urdu translation

• Poor SMS infrastructure

• Crowd-sourcing failed

• Inter-Organisational vs. Intra-Organisational

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Veracruz, September 2010

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What went well?

• Rapid setup of Infrastructure, so users could focus on usage• they took full ownership of data whilst we

focussed on Infrastructure

• Locations Hierarchy available in Wikipedia• we prioritised this before release

• Localisation into Spanish• Flexible use of Google Maps instead of

OSM

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DRR Project Portal

• A website to facilitate coordination and collaboration on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) projects

• Asia Disaster Preparedness Center

• International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) Asia Partnership

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