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John Walling
Seattle, WA
wallingconsulting (at) gmail [dot] com
Twitter @johnwalling
206 384 9806 (for Crisis Campers and Crisis Wiki participants)
--John 19:14, 31 August 2008 (CDT)

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Sahana 

http://sahana.lk/
http://www.sahana.lk/overview
http://wiki.sahana.lk/doku.php?id=doc:nwhome
irc://irc.freenode.net/sahana IRC Logs http://logs.qgis.org/sahana/

Sahana is a collection of web based disaster management applications that provides solutions to large-scale humanitarian coordination and collaboration in disaster situation and its aftermath. Sahana consists of several modules for following functionalities:

  • Situation Mapping - Allows you to locate activities on a map providing current situation awareness.
  • Missing Person Registry - Helps to report and search missing person.
  • Disaster Victim Registry - Traces internally displaced people (IDPs) and their needs.
  • Organization Registry - Lists 'who is doing what & where'. Allows relief agencies to self organize the activities rendering fine coordination among them.
  • Request/Aid Management - Tracks requests for aid and matches them against donars who have pledged aid.
  • Shelter Registry - Tracks the location, distibution, capacity and breakdown of victims in shelter.
  • Inventory Management - Effectively and efficiently manage relief aid, enables transfer of inventory items to different inventories and notify when items are required to refill.
  • Messaging Module - Allows communication by email and SMS text messaging to groups.
  • Aid Catalog - Captures information on different catalogues and measurement units. These information are being used in systems such as Inventory Management System and Request Management System.
  • Synchronization - Allows data exchange between instances of Sahana by synchronization.

Sahana is an integrated set of pluggable, web based disaster management applications that provide solutions to large-scale humanitarian problems in the aftermath of a disaster. Our aspirations are as follows:

  1. Primary: Help alleviate human suffering and help save lives through the efficient use of IT during a disaster
  2. Bring together a diverse set of actors from Government, Emergency Management, NGOs, INGOs, spontaneous volunteers and victims themselves in responding effectively to a disaster
  3. Empower the victims, responders, volunteer to better enable them to help themselves and others
  4. Protect victim data and reduce the opportunity for data abuse
  5. Provide a Free and Open Source solution end-to-end available to everyone

With the above aspirations, the main applications built into Sahana and problems they address so far are as follows:

  1. Missing Person Registry - Helping to reduce trauma by effectively finding missing persons
  2. Organization Registry - Coordinating and balancing the distribution of relief organizations in the affected areas and connecting relief groups allowing them to operate as one
  3. Request Management System - Registering and Tracking all incoming requests for support and relief upto fulfillment and helping donors connect to relief requirements
  4. Camp Registry - Tracking the location and numbers of victims in the various camps and temporary shelters setup all around the affected area
  5. Volunteer Management - Coordinate the contact info, skills, assignments and availability of volunteers and responders
  6. Inventory Management - Tracking the location, quantities, expiry of supplies stored for utilization in a disaster
  7. Situation Awareness - Providing a GIS overview of the situation at hand for the benefit of the decision makers

RESCUE Disaster Portal 

http://www.itr-rescue.org/products/disasterportal_product.php
http://rescue-ibm.calit2.uci.edu/DisasterPortalProject/disasterportal.html

Major Features of the Disaster Portal

  • Situation Summary
  • Announcements / Map Annotations
  • Alerts and Notifications
  • Emergency Shelter Information
  • Family Reunification
  • Donation Management
  • Press Releases
  • User Profile Management
  • Site Administration Area

Research Incorporated into the Disaster Portal

  • Crisis Alert dissemination system can automatically create customized notification messages
  • Family reunification application ability to provide integration of crawling and/or searching of other missing person information sources on the web
  • P2P Web Server to handle temporary overload
  • Traffic / Population Prediction by geographic area
  • Multimodal Content Processing and Mapping
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