Guest Expert Presentation to TechChange

1. Making Chaos Manageable
“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

2. Sahana Software Foundation
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 the victims
themselves.
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3. 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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4. First deployed for
Sri Lanka tsunami response
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5. 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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6. 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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7. Sahana Software Projects
Eden (Python/web2py)– Agasti (PHP)
Emergency Development Vesuvius – provides Lost
Environment Person Finder & Hospital
Supported by a number of Triage Management (NLM)
stakeholders, including IFRC, Kilauea – provides shelter
ADPC, APBV, LA EMD, the registration (CUNY/OEM)
HELIOS Foundation and others.
Mayon – provides Emergency
Flexible rapid application Resource Management and
development platform with a Scenario Planning for large
rich feature set municipalities (CUNY/OEM)
Designed for humanitarian Standards & Interoperability
organizations and agencies
engaged in disaster relief. Promotes adoption of open
data standards and
interoperability between
humanitarian FOSS projects.
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8. Technology and Features
Environments
Linux, Windows, OSX
PortableApps, VMWare
Cloud / EC2
Translation & Localization
Pootle, Character Sets
Right-to-left scripting
Open Data Standards
KML, WMS, GeoRSS, WPS
EDXL, CAP, JSON, XML
Mobile Accessibility
J2ME, HTML 5, Xforms
JavaRosa, OCR, NetBooks
XO Laptops
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9. Major Disaster Deployments
Wildfires in Chile – 2012
Hurricane Irene in New York – 2011
Tornado in Joplin, Missouri - 2011
Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan – 2011
Christchurch Earthquake in New Zealand - 2011
Flooding in Colombia – 2011
Flooding in Venezuela – 2010
Flooding in Pakistan – 2010
Hurricane in Veracruz, Mexico – 2010
Earthquake in Chile – 2010
Earthquake in Haiti – 2010
Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar – 2008
Chengdu-Sitzuan Province Earthquake, China – 2008
Bihar Floods, India – 2008
Ica Earthquake, Peru – 2007
Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh – 2007
Yogjakarta Earthquake, Indonesia – 2006
Landslides in the Philippines– 2005
Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistan – 2005
Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami in Sri Lanka – 2004
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10. Pre-Disaster Deployments
City of Los Angeles* – 2011
LirneAsia, Freedom Phone & EDXL, in Sri Lanka - 2011
APBV (Bombeiros)* in Portugal - 2011
IFRC Asia Pacific Disaster Management Unit – 2010
Philippines Red Cross in the Philippines – 2010
SahanaTaiwan*, Academia Sinica, in Taiwan – 2010
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok, Thailand – 2010
National Disaster Relief Services Center, Sri Lanka – 2010
National Coordinating Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) in
Indonesia – 2009
National Disaster Coordinating Council in the Philippines – 2009
US National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland - 2009
LirneAsia, Bio-Surveillance, Sri Lanka and India - 2008
Sarvodaya (NGO), Sri Lanka – 2008
Office of Emergency Management in New York City – 2007
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11. City of New York
Shelter 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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12. US National Library of Medicine
People 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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13. Sahana Eden
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14. Deploying Sahana Agasti
Mayon & Kilauea:
Prerelease code only now available
In 2012, will have supported release, including:
Training videos
Full user and installation documentation
Packaged software on DVD/VM for installation
Vesuvius
People Locator hosted at http://pl.nlm.nih.gov
Fully interoperable with Google Person Finder
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15. Deploying Sahana Eden
Considerations:
Sahana Eden is an Expert System
Typically customized and localized before deployed
=> paucity of User Training materials
Partnering/Supporting Humanitarian Organizations
Sahana Eden Essential Guide
http://en.flossmanuals.net/sahana-eden/
Wiki: http://eden.sahanafoundation.org
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16. Resources
Wiki: http://wiki.sahanafoundation.org
Mailing Lists & IRC
discuss@lists.sahanafoundation.org;
sahana-eden@googlegroups.com
#sahana, #sahana-eden on Freenode (irc.freenode.net)
SahanaCamps
http://sahanafoundation.org/programs/sahanacamp/
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17. Free and Open Source Software Projects
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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