Chamindra de Silva (Sri Lanka) SAHANA, Director and CTO VIRTUSA, Head of Strategic Initiatives, GTO

1. Evolution of the Sahana Open Source Project III International Meeting on ICT for Development Cooperation March 1 st to 2 nd 2010, Gijón, Spain Chamindra de Silva (Sri Lanka) SAHANA, Director and CTO VIRTUSA, Head of Strategic Initiatives, GTO http://chamindra-de-silva.blogspot.com [email_address]

3. The Need for IT for Disaster Management

4. Applying of Humanitarian Principles to FOSS

5. How Sahana was applied for various Governments around the world

6. Designing Resilient Systems in the Environment of a Disaster

7. Partnering in a Diverse Global Community

8. Defining: What is a Disaster? “ A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a society, causing widespread human, material or environmental losses w hich exceeds the ability of the affected society to cope using only its own resources” Source:UNDP

10. Up to 5 million people lost homes, or access to food and water

11. 1 million people left without a means to make a living

12. At least $7.5 billion in the cost of damages

13. Disasters Coordination Who Responds to Disasters? 10s of Orgs 100s of Orgs 1000s – 1 Mill Government Relief Local Authorities, Police, Army, Fire fighters, + Authorized coord + Well trained + Accountable +/- Big picture relief (e.g. national security) - Procedures create bottlenecks - Overloaded Local Relief Spontaneous volunteers, corporate village communities, friends and family + first responders + lot of capacity + instant aid - not trained - focus unknown - not accountable UN, NGOs Red Cross, OCHA, CARE, WHO, Sarvodaya, etc + focused on people + trusted to accept aid +/- less well trained + accountable - Donor driven - narrow focus / fragmented - sometimes competing Victims Effective Collaboration and Coordination! Relief

15. Coordinating Who is doing What Where?

16. Tracking Displaced Families

17. Collaborative and live Incident Mapping

18. Aid Logistics Management

19. Scalable Alerting

20. Data Collation , Calculation and Reporting

21. Automated Messaging to the Public “ Every Second Counts” => Decision Needs to be made Rapidly

22. Explaining the complexity of DM Well defined Response Process Well defined Information Flows Well Trained Responders Situation Awareness in Normal Emergency Management Information Information Situation Awareness Act Decide

24. Information from non-traditional “uninitiated” sources means different terminology / processes

25. Decision Makers need to analyze a vast amount of data to respond effectively

26. Coordinating in Disaster Management Multiple Disparate Information Sources Information Overload Large delta to reality Diverse Responders Relief workers, Volunteers Multiple Parallel independent Processes Information Information Situation Awareness?? Act Information Information Information Decide

31. Modular Sub-applications to address th e common Disaster Management probs

33. Facilitate the effective information exchange between responders and beneficiaries

34. Primary focus is to help victims

36. 1 st week 24hr development

38. The Flow Sri Lanka IT Community Sahana Software Builds Tsunami 2004 IT Community = LSF + LKLUG + IT Industry + Academia Urgent Requirements

39. Deployed in CNO, Sri Lanakan Gov

41. Computer based search heuristics

42. Tracking Family units

43. Analyzing networks of connections The Missing People Registry helps track and find missing, people

45. Coverage of Services

46. Self-Allocation and Reporting

47. Contact Information The Organization Registry helps maintain data (contact, services, region, etc) of organizations groups and volunteers working in the disaster

49. Matching Aid to Ground Needs

50. Inventories/Catalog

51. Quantities

52. Expiration dates

53. Re-order levels

54. Tracking Allocation The Request Management System tracks all requests and helps match pledges for support, aid and supplies to fullfilment

56. Shelters (IDPs)

57. (field) Hospitals

58. Organizations

59. Responders The Shelter Registry helps track data on all shelters setup following the Disaster

63. Develop Sahana application framework

64. Develop Initial set of core applications

65. Make it Open Source and take it global LSF Core team was funded by SIDA for one year

66. Sahana Phase II LSF Team Sahana Phase II FOSS Software Builds A Global Need (2005) LSF Team = “ Techies” and FOSS Enthusiasts Requirements + SIDA Funds

71. Govern intellectual property & Processes

72. Make it accessible to new developers

73. Provide channels to get user feedback

77. The community + FOSS cycle LSF + Global Community Sahana Software Builds & Refines Attracts & Grows 2006

79. Community Creates More Modules

80. Innovation from the Community Portable App Portable Devices + Synchronization SMS / Geolocation / GIS Standards

81. This cycle spawns new communities LSF + Global Community Sahana Software Builds & Refines Attracts & Grows 2007 Spawns

83. It continues.. forged in the fire Sahana Community Sahana Software Builds & Refines Incident or Dire Need Attracts & Grows Urgent Requirements

86. Some Deployments Screenshots

87. Sahana Variants in Haiti Right now

92. Officially represent and sign partnerships

93. Provide a vehicle for funding Sahana

96. CRUD / REST

97. Standards

98. DVI

99. Hospital MS

100. Food RP

103. Spanish, Chinese, etc

104. French, Kreyol

105. Domain variants (NIMS, Humanitarian)

108. Alerting Standards CAP, TSML

109. Domain Standards PFIF

111. The FOSS benefits align to humanitarian values very well

112. Sahana is Neutral A-Political project to promote international partnership on FOSS DM solutions

113. Collaboration is key to Resilience “ In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed” - Charles Darwin Disasters don't respect Country Boundaries or Jurisdictions

114. Let's Cooperate! Join us in taking Sahana to the next level Join the Sahana Global Community! http://www.sahanafoundation.org [email_address] [email_address]