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SAHANADisaster Management System

Gavin TreadgoldSahana Board Member

http://sahana.lk/

Thursday, 27 August 2009

http://sahana/lk

http://sahana/lk

What is an Emergency?


In the New Zealand context...

emergency means a situation that—

(a) is the result of any happening, whether natural or otherwise, including, without limitation, any explosion, earthquake, eruption, tsunami, land movement, flood, storm, tornado, cyclone, serious fire, leakage or spillage of any dangerous gas or substance, technological failure, infestation, plague, epidemic, failure of or disruption to an emergency service or a lifeline utility, or actual or imminent attack or warlike act; and

(b) causes or may cause loss of life or injury or illness or distress or in any way endangers the safety of the public or property in New Zealand or any part of New Zealand; and

(c) cannot be dealt with by emergency services, or otherwise requires a significant and co-ordinated response under this Act


An appropriate computer-basedinformation system to integratethe information flow betweenlocal, CDEM Group and nationallevels of emergency managementand associated agencies beagreed upon and implemented.

Key Recommendation of the Review of the 2004 FloodEvent, known as the "Reid Report" (Ministry of Civil Defence& Emergency Management, 2004, p 5)

Is there a need?

While SAHANA cannot solve all theproblems in a disaster, it is anexcellent tool ... It is technologythat can help many people in adisaster. In fact, there is nogreater innovation that mattersmore than that which saves lives.

Avelino J Cruz, Jr., Secretary of National Defense, Philippinesafter Sahana was deployed in response to devastatinglandslides affecting the country.

CanSahanamet it?

Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002.


What is Emergency Management?

Reduction Readiness Response Recovery


Is there a need forEmergency Management

Information Systems?


An appropriate computer-based information system to integrate the information flow between local, CDEM Group and national levels of emergency management and associated agencies be agreed upon and implemented.




Is there a need?



CanSahanamet it?

The communications and information systems available to the public and agencies involved in emergency management be significantly improved.




Is there a need?



CanSahanamet it?

Key Recommendations from the Review of the February 2004 Flood Event.

The identification and adoption of a single consolidated mapping system showing all residential dwellings, infrastructure and geographical features, accessible to and agreed upon by all levels of emergency management.




Is there a need?



CanSahanamet it?

ICT featured in three of the eleven key recommendations


If something good is to be had, then, the New Zealander will argue, let it be spread as widely as possible. The more who can participate, the better.




Is there a need?



CanSahanamet it?

Leslie Michael Lipson. The Politics of Equality – New Zealand Adventures in Democracy (1948).

A low barrier of entry is essential


Free and open source software not only lowers barriers and increases participation,

but it fits well with the collaborative ethos of emergency management.


Commercial organisations essentialto widespread deployment of Sahana

Deployment

Training & Exercising

Support

Customisation & Integration with existing systems

Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery

Surge capacity during emergencies


Academia – Humanitarian FOSS

... feedback suggests that engaging students in HFOSS projects helps foster a more constructive perception of the craft of programming and problem solving while generally reducing the computing-is-coding misconception.




Is there a need?



CanSahanamet it?

Ralph Morelli et al. Revitalising Computing Education Through Free and Open Source Software for Humanity. Communications of the ACM (August 2009).

Trinity College’s HFOSS Program developed the Volunteer Management module for Sahana


First attempt at an open sourceEMIS in 2003, resulted in complete failure...

... due to an inability to build momentum


26 December 2004 in Sri Lankaprovided the catalystStemmed from a desire to help their countrymen – using their skills to provide a tool for recovery.

Key tools producedMissing Persons RegistryOrganisation RegistryRequest Management SystemCamp Registry

The development model? Chaos400 ICT volunteersFirst week saw continuous 24hr developmentMajor releases were almost daily


Sahana Phase 1

CurrentModules

MatureMissing Person Finder

Internally DisplacedPersons Monitor

Request and Aid

Shelter Manager

Messaging and PublicAlerting Module

Volunteer Coordination

Up and ComingReal-Time Mapping

Common AlertingProtocol Manager

Situational Awarenes

GPS Integration

Emergency HousingManager

Disease Monitoring

Data Synchronization

Early Stages ofDevelopment

PDA/iPhone Integration

Disaster VictimIdentication

Dashboard Views

Inventory Management

Logistics Management

Image Categorisation

Duplicate RecordIdentification

Mature modules have been successfullydeployed overseas to help manage disasters.They are considered stable because they haveproven their worth over successivedeployments.

Up and coming modules are considered to besafe for 'dry runs only'. They probably haven'tbeen used in an actual disaster yet, but areregularly used in exercises and scenarios.

Thees modules are at a formative stage ofdevelopment. They're being aggressivelyworked on, but are currently not yet able tobe utilised because of a lack of stability.


NEVER build a disaster management system from scratch during a disaster again!




Is there a need?



CanSahanamet it?

Chamindra de Silva, Member of the Sahana Board, and first Chair of the Sahana Project Management Committee.

CurrentModules



Request and Aid

Shelter Manager






GPS Integration


Disease Monitoring





Dashboard Views









Sahana Phase 2

CurrentModules



Request and Aid

Shelter Manager






GPS Integration


Disease Monitoring





Dashboard Views








Funded Internships

Workshop

Complete rewrite

JANUARI 2003 • METODENHETEN

En sammanfattning av LFA-teorin

Logical FrameworkApproach (LFA)


Sahana Governance

Lanka Software Foundation (2005-2009)

Conference, BarCamp & Board Meeting – Colombo, March 2009

Community-proposed plan to LSF to accept ownership

Transition Board to manage Foundation Formation


Sahana DevelopmentDeveloper email list & IRC

Structured mentoring a la GSOC

Commercial projects fed back to trunk

Code from actual deployments

Developer ⇒ Committer ⇒ Sahana PMC

Core FrameworkAccess Control, Reporting, Form Creation, Database Access, Mapping, Admin, APIs, Web Services...

Modules⇒ ...

CurrentModules



Request and Aid

Shelter Manager






GPS Integration


Disease Monitoring





Dashboard Views









CurrentModules



Request and Aid

Shelter Manager






GPS Integration


Disease Monitoring





Dashboard Views








Formative stages of development aggressively developed, fast-changing, but unstable and untested

Phone/PDA applications

Disaster Victim Identification (DVI)

Dashboards and Aggregation

Logistics and Inventory

Duplicate Person Identification


CurrentModules



Request and Aid

Shelter Manager






GPS Integration


Disease Monitoring





Dashboard Views








Up and comingmay have been used for actual response, increasingly used in BarCamps and interoperability workshops

Situation Awareness (mapping)

Situation Reports

Common Alerting Protocol Aggregator

Disease Surveillance

Data Synchronisation


CurrentModules



Request and Aid

Shelter Manager






GPS Integration


Disease Monitoring





Dashboard Views








Maturesuccessfully deployed to disasters, considered stable, used in multiple deployments

Missing Persons

Organisations

Shelters

Requests and Aid

Messaging and Alerting

Volunteer Management


2009 Slots

11 Wordpress

10 Debian

10 Fedora

10 Sahana

10 Linux Foundation

10 Mozilla

10 Open Suse

10 Perl

Summer of Code

Fourth year in Programme

1 of only 150 organisations accepted in 2009

1 Project = USD$5000

3 month internships

follows a formal and mentored process

increasingly linked to academic courses


Most deployments are during Response and Recovery. This is akin to installing

backup software after a hard drive failure.

Asian Tsunami in Sri Lanka (2005)Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistan (2005)Landslide in Philippines (2005)

Yogjakarta Earthquake, Indonesia (2006)Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh (2007)Ica Earthquake in Peru (2007)Chendu-Sitzuan Earthquake, China (2008)


A comprehensive EMIS needs more Reduction and Readiness tools to encourage adoption before the next Emergency strikes.

Coastal Storm Plan in New York City (2007-)National Disaster Management Center & Ministry of Resettlement & Disaster Relief Services, Sri Lanka (2009)


Software is nothing...

The wide range of organisations involved in emergency management requires a collaborative approach to the sharing of information. Information systems to support a collaborative approach to emergency management can add significant value, especially as the scope and scale of an event increases, and with it the volume of information that is required to be managed and shared. It is essential that information is stored and communicated in common formats to ensure that information can be easily exchanged and aggregated to support decision making.




Is there a need?



CanSahanamet it?

W3C Emergency Information Interoperability Framework Incubator Group Report (20090806).

... without standards and data


Sahana is moving from application to ecosystemMany standards to be developed

Identify niche applications

Build distributions

Bundle data


There are very few programmers that are also emergency managers.

A significant challenge...

The “cluster” concept, both nationally and locally, be promoted as a component of emergency management planning.Key Recommendation from the Review of the February 2004 Flood Event.


NZ Sahana ClusterForm a community of collaborators

Make Sahana work for New Zealand

Build local capacity and capability

Students, ICT and Research

Take our ICT and EM expertise global

About Sahana

Sahana a web-based collaborationtool. It addresses the commoncoordination problems during adisaster from finding missingpeople, managing aid, managingvolunteers, sharing informationeffectively between Governmentagencies, the NGOs and thecommunity.

Recently, the scope of the Sahanaproject has expanded. It nowcontains modules in alpha stages ofdevelopment in areas such asDisaster Victim Identification(management of the deceased inemergencies), advanced mappingand public altering systems via SMSand other technologies through theCommon Alerting Protocol.

Sahana is a web-based application.This means it can be deployed in thesoftware as a service manner, via anetwork or on a local machine. Thisflexibility allows for Sahana to bedeployed in a wide variety ofhardware and operating systems.

EMIS Developers can’t isolate themselves from the CDEM community – they must form partnerships and openly collaborate with the sector.


While SAHANA cannot solve all the problems in a disaster, it is an excellent tool... It is technology that can help many people in a disaster. In fact, there is no greater innovation that matters more than that which saves lives.




Is there a need?



CanSahanamet it?

Avelino J Cruz, Jr., Secretary of National Defense, Philippines after Sahana was deployed in response to devastating landslides affecting the country.

Sahana is a global public good


About Sahana

Sahana a web-based collaborationtool. It addresses the commoncoordination problems during adisaster from finding missingpeople, managing aid, managingvolunteers, sharing informationeffectively between Governmentagencies, the NGOs and thecommunity.

Recently, the scope of the Sahanaproject has expanded. It nowcontains modules in alpha stages ofdevelopment in areas such asDisaster Victim Identification(management of the deceased inemergencies), advanced mappingand public altering systems via SMSand other technologies through theCommon Alerting Protocol.

Sahana is a web-based application.This means it can be deployed in thesoftware as a service manner, via anetwork or on a local machine. Thisflexibility allows for Sahana to bedeployed in a wide variety ofhardware and operating systems.

Sometimes it does us a power of good to remind ourselves that we live on two volcanic rocks where two tectonic plates meet, in a somewhat lonely stretch of windswept ocean just about the Roaring Forties. If you want drama – you’ve come to the right place.




Is there a need?



CanSahanamet it?

Sir Geoffrey Palmer.

Never tell them you can’t do a thing. Get stuck in and have a go. By the time they find out you’ve never done it before, you’re doing it.




Is there a need?



CanSahanamet it?

Barry Crump. Hang on a Minute Mate (1961).
