Bhutan Evaluated Sahana Eden as a replacement and enhancement for their Disaster Information System
Demonstration of Sahana tools for emergency response and crisis management to support data informed decision making
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2018 End of Year Update
Sahana Software Foundation had its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on December 5th, 2018 via a 3-hour long conference call. Approximately a dozen people participated. At the beginning of the call […]
Cleanup your CAP: towards a decentralized, immutable, and trusted alert network
Picking up from the discussion on Alerthub, back in 2016 in Bangkok, we developed a hook to update our repository whenever the WMO Register of Alerting Authorities had change; the […]
Sahana First Response acceptable for Seychelles
Sahna First Response (SaFiRe) prototype was designed, for simple and small Emergency Operation Centers (EOCs), with the intention of looking for potential opportunities for implementations. The wish came true when the Seychelles Department […]
Inclusive Public Services for Linguistically Challenged presented @ CPRsouth2018
Smart Governments, as part of their Smart Cities programs, must include linguistically challenged in public information and services. Pictographs (pictograms or symbology) can play an important role in disaster communication. […]
“ShaRe” for bridging Social Capital during Crises
During the immediate aftermath of a disaster, it’s the neighboring communities or unaffected people in the area that activate to assist the victims with the basic needs of food, water, […]
SAMBRO would have prevented the Hawaiian human error nuke scare
An early-morning emergency alert mistakenly warning of an incoming ballistic missile attack was dispatched to cellphones across Hawaii on Saturday, setting off widespread panic in a state that was already […]
Building capacity on Common Alerting Protocol for Nepal
Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) Nepal is in the process of operationalizing the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) v 1.2 – enabled Sahana Alerting and Messaging Broker (SAMBRO): DHM Nepal […]
Beyond text translations for the displaced and marginalized
Policy and Plans for Linguistically Challenged The European INTERACT project is part of a Migration Policy initiative. The project is studying how nations set emergency communication policies and plans in […]
Push Messaging Big Topic at CAP Implementation Workshop
At the annual CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) Implementation Workshop in Rome, many speakers talked about how to disseminate messages on the last mile to end users. As Elyza Jones of […]