Author: Marine Louvigny

  • Interview with Eero Sario, RMS Coordinator

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    Eero Sario has been volunteering for Finnish Red Cross since 1998. After having worked first as a software developer he moved to humanitarian field where he had his first mission in 2008-09 with IFRC in the Caribbean managing a hurricane appeal. Then he worked as a WatSan delegate in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake and started…

  • PROFILE: IFRC’s Resource Management System (RMS) built with Sahana Eden

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    Since 2010, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has been working with AidIQ on the development of a pioneering platform called the “Resource Management System” or “RMS”. This integrated system uses Sahana Eden to register national societies’ resources and includes geographical data such as hazard risks, population density, rainfall frequency…

  • A EUROSHA Volunteer Diary

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    FLOSS, source code, OdBL… when I first heard about the EUROSHA project and Sahana, open source technologies were still a black hole for me. The humanitarian world stopped at the barbed wire fences of UN agencies and a plethora of non-governemental organizations which, to be sure, already had extremely effective modern means of communicating with their…