We developed a prototypical pictograph dictionary and grammar around heavy rain instigated hazard events; namely ‘floods’ and ‘landslides’. This dictionary was developed from the findings gathered and analyzed from the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
