Sahana Reponse to Haiti Earthquake
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’ Sahana Foundation s Res pons e to Haiti
Earthquake3 July 2010, Sahana Camp
Fran Boonfran@ sahanafoundation.org
, 12 2010Tues day January
- Rapidly changingrequirements
•Missing Person Registry•Mapping•Organization Registry•Hospital Management•Volunteer Registry•WFP: Food Request Portal
Mis s ing Pers on Regis try
•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
PFIF
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
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
Organization Regis try
•Army of volunteers input data from a multitude of spreadsheets–We had the best data & it was accessible
• Hos pital Management–We had the best data & it was accessible–EDXL-HAVE compliant
• Volunteer Management–Built in 48 hours!
Reques t 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
Food Reques ts 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
Infras tructrure•NetHope & Inveneo•Long-distance WiFi links to provide
connectivity for NGOs & Medical teams.
Making Do
Los t in the Clouds