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 & 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.

- the Economist, January 14, 2012

March 21, 2012 DISASTER ROUNDTABLE 2

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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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The Historic Trigger 2004 : Indian Ocean Earthquake & Tsunami

At 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

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Sahana first deployed for Sri Lanka tsunami response

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Core Capabilities Track Nouns:Organization & Volunteer Registry

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

Missing Persons / Disaster Victims Registry

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

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Core Capabilities Track Needs:Request and Resource Management

Manages requests, assessments and reports and helps match commitments for support, donations, aid 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.

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Sahana Software Projects

Eden (Python/web2py)– Emergency Development Environment

Supported by a number of stakeholders, including IFRC, ADPC, APBV, LA EMD, 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.

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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, NetBooksXO Laptops

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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 – 2008Ica 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 – 2011IFRC, Asia Pacific – 2010Helios Foundation – 2011APBV (Bombeiros) in Portugal - 2011Philippines 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 in Sri Lanka - 2008Sarvodaya (NGO), Sri Lanka – 2008NYC Office of Emergency Management – 2007

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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

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US National Library of MedicinePeople Locator Project

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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:

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Sahana Eden

2020

Sahana Eden

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Sahana Eden

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

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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

The New Disaster Information Environment

Best Practices Open Standards and :Information Sharing Agreements/MOUs

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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.

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Sahana Partners & Stakeholders

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Unique Development Model:Virtuous Circle of Contributions

Branch for Org B

Branch for Org A

TRUNK

Traditional Open Source Development Model

Can result in multiple branches, each needing support and expertise to maintain

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Unique Development Model:Virtuous Circle of Contributions

TRUNK

Org A Branch

Org B Branch

Sahana Open Source Development Model:

Features & fixes developed by one organization are available to all future Sahana users

Enabled by Sahana Software Foundation s 501(c)(3) 'status & supported by Software Grant Agreements & :Contributor License Agreements

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The Sahana Community

A unique global voluntary team of developers and experts:

Emergency ManagersRelief WorkersExperienced FOSS DevelopersICT SpecialistsResearchersHumanitarian ActivistsMedical and Public Health Professionals

Global collaboration for the global public good

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Our Vision is to build and sustain a global open and collaborative community of contributors to information and communications technologies for disaster management. To this end, we support:

Google Summer of Code / Google Code-In

RHoK / GWOB Hackathons

Grace Hopper Celebration Open Source Day and Codeathon

H-FOSS Project & ISCRAM Partnership

SahanaCamps

GET INVOLVED TODAY!

Getting Involved withthe Sahana Community

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Google Summer of Code

Google funds paid summer internships to work on open source software.

Sahana Software Foundation has been a mentoring organization for every year of this program – dating to 2006

Student application deadline is this Friday. For more information, visit:http //www.google-melange.com:http //sahanafoundation.org:

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Join us for SahanaCamp NYC

SahanaCamp NYC is being held from May 22-25 at the Salvation Army Headquarters (14th St) in NYC.SahanaCamp NYC will provide:

understanding of how Sahana Software can help manage information before, during and after disastersa practical technical workshop to provide instruction in how Sahana Software can be deployed within and across organizations

The SahanaCamp Program is designed to:quick-start deployments of Sahana software build a local support community for local or national emergency and disaster response organizations

This is the 6th SahanaCamp – following Los Angeles, Portugal, Taiwan, Vietnam and India

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Local and Global NeedsUS Charitable Organizations (NGOs)

“I would like to thank you for the amazing database that you have created...I would like to ask you about the possibility of partnering with the organization that I volunteer with, a US-based, 501 c 3 non-profit ( )organization that provides hands-on assistance to survivors of natural disasters around the world... Currently, we are working in Leogane, Haiti and Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. We are in need of updating our databases so that they are more efficient and would love to use Sahana.”“Hello and thank you so much for your hard work and the products that we are beginning to enjoy. I have loaded the software and like it, however we need some additional functionality. Where would we turn with almost no budget to begin a adaptation to this software. If we are looking for a programmer to donate his time what skills would be needed Thank you for your courtesies in these matters and for the great software which ?we are going to try to use for the first time here in Harrisburg IL.”“I would like to talk with someone about disaster volunteer management software and how we work with you. We are a registered 501c3 and know of Sahana through Golden Phoenix”“We provide disaster support mostly with communication, logistics, and planning support for rural communities. We are interested in using the Eden software to assist us and our allied partners. If you could assist us with determining technical need and some guidance that would be much appreciated.

Local CERT Chapter“I m the webmaster for a volunteer organization known as CERT. We are looking for an asset personnel ' /management program, that will track all our vehicles and equipment, our volunteers and their trainings certifications and events they were deployed to. I ve played with your Eden demo and am amazed./ / ' ”

National Red Cross Society“I m currently managing a software development project on behalf of the,,, Government and... Red Cross. Our project ’is to replace the software base of National Registration and Inquiry System NRIS . NRIS is our national voluntary ( )registration system for displaced people during disasters.

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Disaster Support Requests

Typhoon Sendong (Philippines)“I am studying masters of information technology right now and one of my project is to deploy Sahana software to a relocation site here in Cagayan de Oro which recently devastated by the typhoon Washi or Sendong here in " " " "the Philippines... Thank you so much for your organization. Looking forward for your reply.”

Dexter, Michigan (tornado)“I am writing from Dexter, MI where we are dealing with the aftermath of a tornado. I am chair of a public safety committee and have been tasked with trying to find a solution for connecting people and organizations that want to help donate to those who need assistance. It seems your program might be a great fit. I need to get this up and /running asap. Any advice and help would be greatly appreciated.”

Harrisburg, Illinois (tornado)“I am currently looking towards setting up the Sahana Eden software in response to our tornado catastrophe last month. I need some guidance in my efforts. We realize Sahana Eden is one of the best programs to aid in the current disaster and future calamities.”

These Support Requests have all come in to SSF since March 1, 2012

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Resources

Wiki :http //wiki.sahanafoundation.org:http //eden.sahanafoundation.org:Sahana Eden Essential Guide

http //en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/:

Mailing Lists & IRC

http //sahanafoundation.org/community:

sahana, sahana-eden sahana-agasti on Freenode # # #(irc.freenode.net)

SahanaCamps

http //sahanafoundation.org/programs/sahanacamp/:

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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:Mark@SahanaFoundation.org

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

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