Calling Mission Control
A critical piece of functionality and a first milestone for EdenMobile is, and has always been, the exchange of data with the Eden Server. For that to happen, Em has […]
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Sahana in your hands
Dear Sahana friends, artists and craftsmen, after a period of extensive precursory development, we’ve now followed through on our promise… Umh – ok, let me try again: After years of […]
Do Hazard Pictographs need Context?
What kind of pictographs are suitable to be used for natural disaster alerting? To find out, we were addressing marginalized communities with reading and writing problems in Sri Lanka and […]
Pictograph-based Disaster Communication with Deaf Communities
After reaching out to low-literate communities in rural and urban Sri Lanka, we addressed another marginalized group in the Philippines: Deaf people. According to UNESCAP, people with disabilities have a […]
Sri Lankan low-literate communities enjoy symbology in disaster communication
In general low-literate community members, in Sri Lanka, struggled with comprehending the Sri Lanka Meteorological Services text bulletins – that is what was observed. Simpler visual indicators are easier to […]
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 […]
“Help, Pirates!” – Insights from a Disaster Communication Exercise with Experts
Last year, we approached a group of disaster communication experts at the 2016 CAP Implementation Workshop in Bangkok, about 60 people with a profession related to disaster management. We wanted […]
Happy and Prosperous New Year 2017 wishes from the chair of Sahana Software Foundation
The Sahana Software Foundation do our utmost to prepare for more resilient communities worldwide by making high quality information management systems for emergency preparedness, response, recovery and resilience-building accessible to […]
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 […]
Extending Early Warnings to Linguistically Marginalized Populations
In a work for the World Meteorological Organization, M. Golnaraghi [1] stated that “it is crucial that warning messages are clear, consistent and include risk information, designed with consideration for […]