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ITU Kaleiderscope best paper awarded to SAMBRO
We presented our paper on the “intricacies of implementing the ITU-T X.1303 recommended warning standard for cross-agency situational-awareness in Myanmar, Philippines, and Maldives at ITU Kaleiderscope (2016). It is an IEEE conference sponsored by the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB). The paper was not technical in the strict sense but discussed ICT policy relevant findings that…
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The 2011 Sahana Google Summer of Code Wrap-Up: The Best Summer Ever!
Another summer is over. And what a great summer it was. Countless hours at the beach and pool with the kids; great free concerts in the park…. but this post is supposed to be a wrap up about Sahana’s 2011 Google Summer of Code Program, so let’s get to that. It was, quite simply…
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Sahana Software Foundation Receives PPBI Best Practices Award for Haiti Earthquake Response
On 23 March 2010, the Sahana Software Foundation received the PPBI 2010 Best Practices award for our response to the Haiti Earthquake. The Best Practices award is given annually by PPBI (Public Private Business, Inc.), a not-for-profit corporation with a mission to link the private and public sectors in effective emergency management and disaster recovery…
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The Sahana Software Foundation (SSF) saves 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…
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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 support multi-linguistics and crisis management. Findings are not promising and there is a severe need for intervention. Observation was that the studies had left out…
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Deploying Sahana software is a great way for professional software providers to do well by doing good. We are extremely encouraging of new providers because we know that cultivating a healthy community of professional service providers is the best way for our software to get into the hands of the people and organizations that need it most.…
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Cyber-attacks and Power-failure: Disrupters of ICT use in Warning Dissemination
We have been monitoring the accessibility of the Myanmar and Maldives SAMBRO servers. Our remote server, in Singapore, pings each of the servers every 10 minutes and logs whether the server was accessible over the Internet or not. Accessibility has been extremely poor in both countries over the past 20 days. We found out that…
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2016 End of Year Update
The SSF had its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on October 27th, 2016. It took approximately 3 hours and 10 people participated. At this meeting, I presented a report on the state of the SSF. Please look over that report and feel free to add comments directly to it. I promise to reply. The AGM confirmed…
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CAP on a Map
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Sahana Research & Action Myanmar Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Atmospheric Services Administration (PAGASA) Maldives National Disaster Management Center (NDMC) Asian Institute of Technology Geoinformatics Center United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific