Sahana Haiti Brief 022310

SahanaSahanaFree & Open Source Free & Open Source

Disaster Management SystemDisaster Management Systemhttp://www.SahanaFoundation.orghttp://www.SahanaFoundation.org

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“No innovation matters more than that which saves lives”

Avelino J. Cruz, Jr., Secretary of National Defence of the Philippineson the use of Sahana following disastrous mudslides in 2005

SahanaSahana

What is Sahana?• A free & open source portable web tool

• Modules designed to address common

Disaster Management problems

• A Rapid Application Development

(RAD) platform

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Main Goals• Bring efficiencies to disaster response

coordination

• Facilitate effective information exchange between responders and beneficiaries

• Primary focus is to help victims

Sahana Core ModulesSahana 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

Sahana Core ModulesSahana 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

Sahana DeploymentsSahana 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


• 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

RecognitionRecognition

• 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


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

The Sahana CommunityThe Sahana Community

• A global voluntary team of developers and experts including:

� Emergency Managers

� Relief Workers

� ICT Specialists and


� ICT Specialists and Researchers

� Experienced FOSS developers

� Humanitarian Activists

� Nurses and other Public Health Experts

Global collaboration for the global public good

Haiti Earthquake ResponseHaiti Earthquake Response


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Phase I: Organization RegistryPhase I: Organization Registry


Phase I: Organization RegistryPhase I: Organization Registry

Phase II: Request ManagementPhase II: Request Management


Phase II: Request ManagementPhase II: Request ManagementSupport for First RespondersSupport for First Responders

Phase III: Hospital ManagementPhase III: Hospital Management


Phase III: Hospital ManagementPhase III: Hospital Management

Phase IV: World Food Phase IV: World Food ProgrammeProgramme


Phase IV: World Food Phase IV: World Food ProgrammeProgrammeWFP Food Request PortalWFP Food Request Portal

WFP Food Request PortalWFP 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)


(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

Open StandardsOpen Standards

• Sahana’s REST controller publishes all data:� KML

� GeoRSS / RSS

� JSON

� XML


� XML

� EDXL-HAVE (Hospital AVailability Exchange)

� PFIF (Person Finder Interchange Format)

� CSV

� GPX

� XLS

Open Source Open Source Technology PartnersTechnology Partners

• Ushahidi• InSTEDD• FortiusOne / Geocommons• Open Solutions Group/ Telascience


• Open Solutions Group/ Telascience• Mindtel / Synergy Strike Force• Star-Tides (NDU)• Crisis Mappers• Crisis Commons / Crisis Camps

PartnersPartners

• Client: UN World Food Programme (WFP)• Users:

� SOUTHCOM

� USCG

� Responding Agencies & Hospitals in Haiti


� 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

NLM People FinderNLM 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


� CNN’s iReport Haiti

• Provides more user-friendly front-end for those searching for loved ones while not duplicating effort

SahanaSahanaA Global Free and Open Source ProjectA 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

[email protected]

@SahanaFOSS #Sahana

http://www.slideshare.net/SahanaFOSS

Sahana Haiti Brief 022310

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