Sahana Opens Source Ecosystem for supplying Disaster Management IT Systems

Nuwan WaidyanathaDirector - Sahana Software Foundation

nuwan[AT]sahanafoundation[DOT]org

http://www.lirneasia.net/profiles/nuwan-waidyanathaMobile: +8613888446352 (cn) +94773710394 (lk)

ITU Asia-Pacific Centre of Excellences Training on ICT Applications on Mitigating Natural Disaster

2013 November 29

Crowne Plaza, Hanoi, Vietnam

2

Outline

❑ History of Sahana❑ The Sahana Software Foundation❑ What is the Sahana Software❑ Who is using the Software❑ Why is important❑ Conclusion❑ Resources

If you were to manage it manually

❑ Channels N(N-1)/2 = O(N2)

❑ Information Lost in relay and propagation

❑ Redundant Data Collection

❑ Inconsistent Terminology

❑ Manual Collation / Calculation

❑ Delayed Situational-Awareness

N=5

N=8

N=16

Can IT 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 Situation Awareness

Reports are updated live as data goes in

IT Improves Manageability = TotalTime /∑ Weight i∗Timei∗Stepsi

5

How Sahana got started

ImmediateRequirement

ImmediateRequirement

Sri Lankan IT Community

Sri Lankan IT Community

SahanaSoftware

SahanaSoftware

Lanka Software Foundation

Lanka Linux User Group

IT Industry

Academia

6

Deployments aiding major catestrophies

2006

2013

2012

2011

201020092008

20072005

Tsunami, Sri Lanka

Kashmir Earthquake,

Pakistan

Landslide, Philippines

Yogjakarta Earthquake, Indonesia

Cyclone Sidr,

Bangladesh

Ica Earthquake,

Peru

Bihar Floods,

India

Cyclone Nargis,

Myanmar

Sichuan Earthquake,

China

Earthquake, Haiti

Earthquake, Chile

Floods, Pakistan

Hurricane in Veracruz,

Mexico

Floods, Venezuela

Floods in Colombia

Christchurch Earthquake, New Zealand

Earthquake & Tsunami in

Japan

Tornado in Joplin,

MissouriTyphoon Yolanda/ Haiyan

Philippines

Wildfire, Chile

Hurricane Sandy, USA

Floods, Sri Lanka

7

Avid users

Red Cross

UN World Food Programme

Asia Disaster Preparedness Center

Philippines Government: DSWD

Nepal Government: DHM

Timor-Leste Government: NDMD

City of Los Angeles

India, Japan, Taiwan, Portugal

8

A quick overview

TOOLKIT – Essentially a set of software building blocks

HFOSS – Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software platform built specifically for Disaster Management

MODULAR - Highly Configurable so that it can be used in a wide variety of different contexts

ADAPTABLE - Easy to modify to build Custom Solutions to adapt to changing environments

Deployment Options

Host locally in the command center

on a Laptop

Host in the Cloud

Synchronize these 2 together...

Currently in the Phillipines

Help the International Open Source Network (IOSN) with using Sahana for the National Telehealth Center

Managing requests and donations for organizations and sites

collect, share and map information about the status of their clinics and other facilities affected

Nurses in the Department of Health call center are now using Sahana to help plan their relief efforts

In 2012 a the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), in the Philippines, implemented a Relief Goods Inventory & Monitoring System (RGIMS) using Sahana

DSWD wanted to use the RGIMS to receive relief goods on behalf of external organizations - members of the Sahana Community implement a solution, in less that 24 hours, and the next day this was deployed to DSWD’s Servers!

Just in – President's Office Requested additions

Sahana request and response

IFRC Resource Management System

“The RMS isn’t just a piece of software. For the first time in the history of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, RMS enables National Societies to view and analyze hazards and vulnerabilities together with their material and human resources like volunteers, staff, offices and warehouses on a digital up to date map to examine how well its people and resources are positioned.”

- John Gwynn, Head of Organisational Development IFRC Asia Pacific zone

Geographical Information Systems (GIS)

Maps and more …Much faster to understand data

Powerful analyses and data sharing tools

Quick and easy selection of attributes to create Pivot tables

Filter data with drill down options

Visualize the data with Charts

Import/Export to XML, PDF, XL, or JSON files

Create a RSS/Atom data feed with

Community Resilience Mapping Tool

CRMT provides coalition members with the opportunity to create maps of their neighborhoods that can be overlaid

Help make communities better prepared with good information about their situation

System brings together 2010 Census Data, 2011 American Community Survey data, USGS and California Geological Survey Hazards

data, FEMA flood zone data, 70,000 points of interest within LA County:

schools, churches, health facilities, government offices, municipal services, social services agencies, arts and recreation facilities

Disaster Risk Reduction Portal

An initiative of the UNISDR Asia Partnership on Disaster Reduction (IAP)Funding support from the Asian Development Bank (ADP)Executed by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)

http://www.drrprojects.net/

Features Project list – a searchable list including links to

lead organizations and donors of the projects; projects can be entered by any user

Customizable graphs and matrix reports – helping to visualize trends; graphs can be downloaded as images

Interactive map showing DRR projects by country – risk layers such as tsunami risk can be shown on the map

List of downloadable DRR frameworks, strategies and roadmaps

‘My Page’ where logged in users can save searches, graphs and maps, and subscribe to email updates

Climate Data Portal

Consolidate and standardize old data

Build an asset of climate data

Apply climate models (built using 'R')

Share data with other analysts

Project advocated and managed by ADPC

18

Sahana Software Foundation: Community of Practice

SahanaCommunity

Free & OpenSourceSoftwareCommunity

EmergencyManagement

Community

Academic &Research

Community

HumanitarianCommunity(NGOs / Gov)

SahanaCamps – technical training sessions for anyone wanting learn how to use and develop with Sahana

Implementation training – specialized focused training for organizations adopting Sahana for specific disaster management activities

Sahana Software Foundation (501c3)

Google Google Summer of Code Google Code-In

Documentation: Wiki Book

Mailing ListIRC

Commercial Companies

19

Sahana @ IOTX Lanka

18, 20 – 21 June 2014

www.iotxconvention.org

“10 Year of Tsunami Recovery: the Role of ICT in Disaster Risk Reduction”

Thank You

Nuwan WaidyanathaNuwan [AT] sahanafoundation [DOT] org

www.sahanafoundation.org