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“No innovation matters more

than that which saves lives”

Avelino J. Cruz, Jr., Secretary of National Defense of the Philippines

on the use of Sahana following disastrous mudslides in 2005

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The Sahana Software Foundation is 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 the victims themselves.

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Sahana Software

Sahana free and open source software helps bring efficiencies to disaster response coordination:

Reuniting separated families through registering missing and found persons

Tracking and managing requests for help from individuals and organizations

Tracking organizations and programs responding to the disaster, including the coverage and balance in the distribution of aid, providing transparency

Enabling relevant sharing of information across organizations, connecting donors, volunteers, NGOs, and government organizations, enabling them to operate as one

Primary focus is always to help victims

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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

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First deployed for Sri Lanka tsunami response

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Core Capabilities

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

Request and Resource Management

Manages all requests, assessments and incident 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 ProjectsEden – Emergency Development Environment

Supported by a number of stakeholders, including IFRC, ADPC, APBV, 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

Vesuvius – Developed by US National Library of Medicine – provides Lost Person Finder & Hospital Triage Management

Mayon – Developed by City University of New York or NYC OEM – provides Emergency Resource Management and Scenario Planning for large municipalities

Standards & Interoperability

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

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Sahana Software Capabilities

Sahana Eden

Organization RegistryProject TrackingHuman Resources

Volunteers & Staff

Inventory ManagementDonations Management

Asset ManagementAssessmentsScenarios & EventsMappingMessaging

Sahana Mayon

Facility ManagementResource AssignmentScenario Planning

Sahana Vesuvius

Missing Persons ReportingVictim RegistrationTriage Management

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Technology and Features

EnvironmentsLinux, Windows, OSXPortable App, VM

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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Major Disaster DeploymentsHurricane Irene in New York – 2011Tornado in Joplin, Missouri - 2011Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan – 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 Province 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 and Tsunami in Sri Lanka – 2004

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Pre-Disaster DeploymentsCity of Los Angeles* – 2011LirneAsia, Freedom Phone & EDXL, in Sri Lanka - 2011APBV (Bombeiros)* in Portugal - 2011IFRC Asia Pacific Disaster Management Unit – 2010Philippines Red Cross in the Philippines – 2010SahanaTaiwan*, Academia Sinica, in Taiwan – 2010Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand – 2010National Disaster Relief Services Center, Sri Lanka – 2010National Coordinating Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) in Indonesia – 2009 National Disaster Coordinating Council in the Philippines – 2009US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland - 2009LirneAsia, Bio-Surveillance, Sri Lanka and India - 2008Sarvodaya (NGO), Sri Lanka – 2008Office of Emergency Management in New York City – 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 Vesuvius

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

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Sahana Eden

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AwardsGartner Inc. Cool Vendor in Risk Management and Compliance – 2010

Best Practices Award from Public Private Businesses, Inc. – 2010

Sourceforge Community Choice Awards Best Project for Government Finalist – 2009

Free Software Foundation Award for Social Benefit – 2006

Sand Hill Group Good Samaritan Award – 2006

Sourceforge Project of the Month – June 2006

User Award from Red Hat Summit – 2005

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Case StudiesUN Foundation Disaster Relief 2.0 The Future of Information Sharing in : :Humanitarian Emergencies, 2011ICT for Disaster Risk Reduction 2, Asian Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communications Technology for Development, 2010Gartner Inc. Sahana Humanitarian Disaster Management and Collaboration : :System, June 16, 2010.ISCRAM The Sahana Software Foundation response to the 2010 Haiti :Earthquake - 2010UNESCAP Technical Paper A Case Study of the Sahana Disaster Management :System of Sri Lanka – 2009Communications of the ACM (CACM) Revitalizing Computing Education Through :Free and Open Source Software for Humanity – 2009Disaster Resource Guide Quarterly New Open Source Software Could Greatly :Improve Federal and State Disaster Relief Operations – 2008Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme ePrimer ICT for Disaster :Management – 2007CACM Open Source Software for Disaster Management - 2007:UNDP IOSN Case Study on Sahana – 2006BBC Documentary, The Codebreakers – 2006

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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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SSF Community Development Programs

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 Codeathon for Humanity

HFOSS Project & ISCRAM Partnership

SahanaCamps

GET INVOLVED TODAY!

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Sahana Partners & Stakeholders

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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

Sahana Software Foundation

http //SahanaFoundation.org:Info@SahanaFoundation.org

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