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  • Supporting organizations in disaster management: a continuous mission

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    Estève Giraud
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    The Sahana Community is dedicated to supporting organizations in their mission to prepare and respond to disasters to save lives. Because we care, we particularly enjoy reading comments – of direct users, the broader humanitarian community or just curious people – about what we do and how we do it. Recently, we read an article…

  • Sandy, Sahana and Sarapis

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    Devin Balkind
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    THE FOLLOWING POST FROM JANUARY 2013 IS REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM THE SARAPIS FOUNDATION. When “Superstorm Sandy” hit New York City on October 30th, dozens of relief organizations, hundreds of grassroots groups and thousands of people mobilized to provide aid to those most affected. The challenge of coordinating such a relief effort was felt by…

  • NEREIDS selects Sahana for providing Situational Awareness during Maritime Incidents

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    Fran Boon
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    NEREIDS is an EU-funded project which brings together Civil Defence agencies and NGOs from Greece and Cyprus to work on improving the response to Maritime Incidents such as Oil Pollution.  The context is the high volume of shipping in the eastern Mediterranean and the exploitation of newly-found deposits. This project has selected Sahana Eden as…

  • Symbols in Alerting

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    Often people are misconstrued by alert messages and act inappropriately because they have not fully understood the message; especially, when they are short-text messages with partial information. There are many challenges with cognition, or understanding, of public warning messages. UNESCO estimates, on average, 30% of South/West Asians and Sub-Saharan Africans to be illiterate. Those countries…

  • Europe’s IES evaluates Sahana Eden CAP Broker for adoption

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    Recently, in Geneva, I met Massimo Cristaldi (CTO  Intelligence for Environment & Security – IES –  Solutions) at the CAP Implementation Workshop (23-25 April 2013). He mentioned, during a tea-break chat, that they evaluated the Sahana-Eden CAP Broker for possible adoption. Given that the Sahana-Eden CAP Broker was not fully developed, they default to building…

  • Los Angeles Community Resilience Mapping Tool

    Los Angeles Community Resilience Mapping Tool

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    Michael Howden
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    The Sahana Software Foundation is excited to be working in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and RAND Corporation to develop a Community Resilience Mapping Tool using the Sahana Eden Open Source Disaster Management Software. This  is an initiative within the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience (LACCDR) project whose aim is to engage…

  • The Role of the Internship Program in the Sahana Community: An Interview with Mark Prutsalis

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    Estève Giraud
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    To conclude our blog post series about the Sahana Internship Program, we interviewed Mark Prutsalis, CEO of the Sahana Software Foundation, and asked him to share his vision for Sahana’s future and the strategic role of its internship program. Estève Giraud: Hello Mark. Thank you for your time! Could you tell us a little bit about your…

  • Sahana Recognized as 2013 Computerworld Honors Laureate

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    Mark Prutsalis
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    IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program announced on March 19, 2013 that the Sahana Software Foundation has been named a 2013 Laureate in the Human Services category. The annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change. “Technology continues to play a pivotal role in transforming how business and society…

  • Interview with Eero Sario, RMS Coordinator

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    Marine Louvigny
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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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    Marine Louvigny
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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…