SahanaCamp NYC Day 1 AM: Sahana Software Solutions

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Welcome to

SahanaCamp NYCMay 22-25, 2012

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What is

SahanaCamp NYC?


What is SahanaCamp NYC?

SahanaCamp NYC is a program of the Sahana Software Foundation.

A SahanaCamp provides:understanding of how Sahana Software can help manage information before, during and after disasters

a practical technical workshop to provide instruction in how Sahana Software can be deployed within and across organizations


Thanks to our SponsorsPlatinum Sponsors:

Gold Sponsor: Host:


SahanaCamp NYC Agenda

Day One Tues., May 22: nd

Sahana Software Solutions

Morning

Introduction to Sahana & SahanaCamp NYC

Case Studies & Demonstrations

Afternoon

Disaster Simulation

Your Requirements

Day Two Weds., May 23: rd

Deploying Sahana Software

Morning

Sahana Emergency Management System

Partnerships with SSF

Afternoon

Sahana Eden

Managing the Project


SahanaCamp NYC Agenda

Day Three Thurs., May :24th

Developing with Sahana Eden

Morning

Technical Introduction

Installing a Developer s 'Environment

Building Applications

Afternoon

Resources

Modifying Applications

Git & Github

Day Four Fri., May 25: th

Developing with Sahana Eden

Morning

Technical Breakout Sessions

Code Sprint

Afternoon

Code Sprint

Next Step Local Projects


SahanaCamp NYC

Daily Schedule8 45 AM: Breakfast Tuesday & Wednesday

9 00 AM: Morning Program begins

10 15 AM: Morning Break (15 min)

12 00 PM: Lunch (Downstairs)

1 00 PM: Afternoon Program begins

3 00 PM: Afternoon Break (15 min)

5 00 PM: Adjourn


Introductions


Our Facilitators

Michael Fran Dominic


YOU

Please tell us:Name

Where are you from (organization & city)?What do you hope to get out of

SahanaCamp NYC?


Questions?


Making Chaos Manageable

“No innovation matters morethan that which saves lives”

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


World’s urban population will reach 6.4 billion by 2050 (that’s 70% of the world’s projected population of 9.2 billion)

- United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects, 2007

World’s population and economic centers are concentrated in “vulnerable cities near earthquake faults, on river deltas or along tropical coasts.”

- the Economist, January 14, 2012

Growing vulnerability to to an increased incidence of costly disasters

By 2050 the city populations exposed to tropical cyclones or earthquakes will more than double, rising from 11% to 16% of the world’s population.

- United Nations & World Bank, Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters The Economics of Effective Prevention, 2010:By 2070, seven of the ten greatest urban concentrations of economic assets that are exposed to coastal flooding will be in the developing world (vs. none in 2005). Assets exposed to flooding will rise from 5% of the world GDP to 9%.

- OECD, Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes Exposure Estimates, 2007 :

Global annual disaster spending will triple to $185 billion by 2100

- United Nations & World Bank, Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters The Economics of Effective Prevention, 2010:Spending on urban infrastructure to approach $350 trillion over next 30 years.

- Booz & Co., Reinventing the City to Combat Climate Change, 2010

2011 was costliest year ever for disasters (earthquakes in Japan & New Zealand, flooding in China, Australia & Thailand, tornadoes in US).Five of ten costliest disasters have occurred in last five years.20% of aid is now spent responding to disasters only 0.7% is spent on mitigation.;President Obama declared record 99 disaster declarations in 2011.


March 21, 2012 DISASTER ROUNDTABLE 13

Disaster Trends


World’s urban population will reach 6.4 billion by 2050 (that’s 70% of the world’s projected population of 9.2 billion)

- United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects, 2007

World’s population and economic centers are concentrated in “vulnerable cities near earthquake faults, on river deltas or along tropical coasts.”


Growing vulnerability to to an increased incidence of costly disasters

By 2050 the city populations exposed to tropical cyclones or earthquakes will more than double, rising from 11% to 16% of the world’s population.

- United Nations & World Bank, Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters The Economics of Effective Prevention, 2010:By 2070, seven of the ten greatest urban concentrations of economic assets that are exposed to coastal flooding will be in the developing world (vs. none in 2005). Assets exposed to flooding will rise from 5% of the world GDP to 9%.

- OECD, Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes Exposure Estimates, 2007 :

Global annual disaster spending will triple to 185 billion $by 2100

- United Nations & World Bank, Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters The Economics of Effective Prevention, 2010:Spending on urban infrastructure to approach $350 trillion over next 30 years.

- Booz & Co., Reinventing the City to Combat Climate Change, 2010

2011 was costliest year ever for disasters (earthquakes in Japan & New Zealand, flooding in China, Australia & Thailand, tornadoes in US).Five of ten costliest disasters have occurred in last five years.20 of aid is no% w spent responding to disasters only 0.7 is spent on mitigation.; %President Obama declared record 99 disaster declarations in 2011.



Disaster Trends


Disasters are

A Growth Industry

There is both Opportunity

And Responsibility


What is a Disaster?

“A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a society, causing widespread human, material or environmental losses which exceeds the ability of the affected society to cope using only its own resources”

- Source UNDP:“Any Event or Circumstance (happening with or without warning) that causes or threatens death or injury, disruption to the community on such a scale that the effects cannot be dealt with by the emergency services, local authorities and other organizations as part of their normal day to day activities”

- UK Home Office


Aftermath of Disasters

The trauma caused by waiting to be found or find the next of kin

Coordinating all aid groups and helping them to operate effectively as one

Managing the multitude of requests from the affected region and matching them effectively to the pledges of assistance

Tracking the location of all temporary shelters, camps, etc.


Tasks Facing Responders

Search and Rescue

Evacuation

Setting up Shelters

Effective Distribution of Aid

Management of Donor and Donations

Tracing Missing Persons

Trauma Counseling

Assuring Security of Affected Areas

Protecting Children

Rehabilitation

Life Saving decisions need to be made fast!The best decisions are the most informed ones


How Can Technology 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 situational awareness

Reports are updated live as data is entered


The Sahana Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the mission of saving lives by providing information management solutions that enable organizations and communities to better prepare for and respond to disasters.

We develop free and open source software and provide services that help solve concrete problems and bring efficiencies to disaster response coordination between governments, aid organizations, civil society and disaster survivors themselves.

Sahana Software Foundation


What is Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)?

The code is openly available for anyone to use and modify


The Historic Trigger :2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake &

TsunamiAt least 226,000 dead

Up to 5 million people lost their homes, or access to food and water

1 million people left without a means to make a living

At least $7.5 billion in the cost of damages

“Facts and Figures Asian Tsunami Disaster” :New Scientist, 20 January 2005


Sahana first deployed for Sri Lanka tsunami response


Core Capabilities:Track People, Places and Things

Organization, Staff & Volunteer Registry

Understanding 4W “Who What :Where When” Maintains data :(contacts, services) of groups, organizations, staff, and volunteers responding to the disaster, including training and skills information.

Missing Persons / Disaster Victims Registry

Helps track and find missing and found, deceased, injured and displaced people and families


Core Capabilities Track Needs:Requests, Assets and Resource Management

Manages requests, assessments and reports and helps match commitments for support, donations, available assets and supplies through to fulfillment

Geospatial Analysis

Provides situational awareness of all important locations to the disaster response, such as shelters, hospitals, warehouses, incident reports, and assessments.


Sahana Software Projects

Eden (Python/web2py)– Emergency Development Environment

Supported by a number of stakeholders, including IFRC, ADPC, APBV, LA EMD, ARC, CERT, the HELIOS Foundation and others.

Flexible rapid application development platform with a rich feature set

Designed for humanitarian organizations and agencies engaged in disaster relief.

Agasti (PHP)

Vesuvius – provides Lost Person Finder & Hospital Triage Management (NLM)

Kilauea – provides shelter registration (CUNY/OEM)

Mayon – provides Emergency Resource Management and Scenario Planning for large municipalities (CUNY/OEM)

Standards & Interoperability

Promotes adoption of open data standards and interoperability between humanitarian FOSS projects.


Technology and Features

EnvironmentsLinux, Windows, OSXPortableApps, VMWareCloud / EC2

Translation & LocalizationPootle, Character SetsRight-to-left scripting

Open Data StandardsKML, WMS, GeoRSS, WPSEDXL, CAP, JSON, XML

Mobile AccessibilityJ2ME, HTML 5, XformsJavaRosa, OCR, NetBooks

• XO Laptops


Deployments

Disaster Response DeploymentsWildfires in Chile – 2012Hurricane Irene in New York – 2011Tornado in Joplin, Missouri - 2011Sendai Earthquake & Tsunami in Japan – 2011Earthquake in Turkey – 2011Christchurch Earthquake in New Zealand - 2011Flooding in Colombia – 2011Flooding in Venezuela – 2010Flooding in Pakistan – 2010Hurricane in Veracruz, Mexico – 2010Earthquake in Chile – 2010Earthquake in Haiti – 2010Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar – 2008Chengdu-Sitzuan Earthquake, China – 2008Bihar Floods, India – 2008

• Ica Earthquake, Peru – 2007Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh – 2007Yogjakarta Earthquake, Indonesia – 2006Landslides in the Philippines– 2005Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistan – 2005Indian Ocean Earthquake & Tsunami in Sri Lanka – 2004

Preparedness DeploymentsWFP & Government of the Philippines – 2012Los Angeles Emer Mgmt Dept – 2011CERT, Chicago, Illinois – 2011Helios Foundation – 2011APBV (Bombeiros) in Portugal – 2011IFRC, Asia Pacific – 2010Philippines Red Cross in the Philippines – 2010SahanaTaiwan (Institute for Information Industry, Academia Sinica) in Taiwan – 2010Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand – 2010Natl Dis Relief Services Ctr, Sri Lanka – 2010US National Library of Medicine – 2009Bethesda Hosp Emerg Prep Partnrship – 2009Nati Coord Ag for Dis Mgmt in Indonesia – 2009 Natl Dis Coord Council in the Philippines – 2009LirneAsia, Sri Lanka - 2008

• Sarvodaya (NGO), Sri Lanka – 2008NYC Office of Emergency Management – 2007


The New

Disaster Information

Environment


Haiti Earthquake & The “New Information Environment”

New information and communication technologies, new information providers, and new international communities of interest emerged during the Haiti earthquake response that will forever change how humanitarian information is collected, shared, and managed. Humanitarian responders used social networking media, mobile phone text messaging, open source software applications, and commercial satellite imagery more than ever before. Outside of the established international humanitarian community, volunteers and participatory reporters from the affected population became new sources of data and information. Humanitarian organizations, host governments, and the donor community will all need to adapt to this new information environment.

US Department of State Humanitarian Information Unit, White Paper Haiti Earthquake Breaking New : :Ground in the Humanitarian Information Landscape, July 2010

New partners are offering faster, more effective means of analyzing an ever-increasing volume and velocity of data. The challenge ahead is how to create an effective interface between these resources, and create an eco-system where each actor understands its role. It will not be easy. Volunteer and technical communities V&TCs like OpenStreetMap, ( )Sahana and CrisisMappers approach problems in ways that challenge the status quo.

UN Foundation, Disaster Relief 2.0 The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies, 2011:


Government & Emergency Services relief capacity has been exceeded or crippled

To meet response requirements, the boundary of the effort extends to external groups (NGOs, civil society, foreign aid, UN agencies)

Core Decision Makers need to consult a wider group and gather information from nontraditional “uninitiated” sources for better Situational Awareness

CROWDSOURCING & SOCIAL MEDIA

OPEN SOURCE & OPEN STANDARDS

The New Disaster Information Environment


Best Practices Open Standards and :Information Sharing Agreements/MOUs


Standards Organizations

Safe and Well

EDXL-TECPFIF

EDXL-TECPFIF

EDXL-HAVE

Haiti Hospital Data Proposed 2010( )

Missing Persons Community of Interest 2012

Sahana

Google Resource

Finder

Travax


Leveraging New Technologies

How do you understand in 140 characters: Source, credibility, verification, validation, location,

prioritization, categorization, causation, responsibility

Challenge appropriately integrate publicly available :information with trusted systems.



Sahana Partners & Stakeholders


City of New YorkShelter Management

Sahana Mayon – Scenario Management Defines:

Scenarios

Resource Types

Facility Groups

Staff Requirements

Staff Pools and Shifts

Sahana Kilauea

Family and Individual Registration at Shelters


US National Library of MedicinePeople Locator Project


US National Library of MedicinePeople Locator Project

Sahana Vesuvius

Event Manager

Report a Person

Web or Email

Edit Full Person Record

Search for a Person

PFIF Interoperability with Google Person Finder

TriagePic

ReUnite iPhone App

LIVE SITE at HTTP //PL.NLM.NIH.GOV:


Sahana Eden


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

http //SahanaFoundation.org:[email protected]

@SahanaFOSS Sahana#http //www.slideshare.net/SahanaFOSS:

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