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  • CAP on a Map project kickoff in the Maldives

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    A workshop and set of meetings (April 15 & 16, 2015) took place in the capitol city Male in the Maldives. It was an event of the CAP on a Map kickoff in the Maldives. The project aims to improve the institutional responsiveness to all-hazards. The workshop and meeting, serving as a platform to initiate…

  • Sahana Participates for GCI 2014

    Sahana Participates for GCI 2014

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    Ramindu Deshapriya
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    The Sahana Software Foundation has actively taken part in the Google Code-In programme since its inception in 2010 and 2014’s programme was no exception as Sahana was once again among the 12 open source organizations selected to mentor students for Code-In. From November 2014 to January 2015, students completed a whopping total of 173 tasks for…

  • March Update

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    Michael Howden
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    It’s been a busy start to the year with lots going on in the Sahana. There’s been some great voluntary contributions over the past months. Tom Baker has been making some great progress extending continuing his work developing a Sahana Mobile App. Adhitya Kamakshidasan has been tackling some tricky problems around request management and vehicle routing.…

  • Sahana This Week

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    Michael Howden
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    It’s a busy week for Sahana around the world! Fran Boon, the Technical Lead for the Sahana software project, delivering a SahanaCamp training workshop for the Civil Society Disaster Platform, a coalition of disaster management organizations in Turkey. This workshop has been organized by MAG Foundation in close partnership with Sahana. It will include a…

  • Using Sahana to Support Volunteer Technical Communities

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    Michael Howden
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    There’s a lot of similarities  between traditional disaster management organizations and volunteer technical communities such as Sahana’s – especially when you look at our operations from a information management perspective. We collaborate on projects with partner organization, often breaking the work down into tasks that are worked on by numerous people. For this reason we’ve been…

  • Improving Coastal Resilience throug Multi-agency Situational Awareness

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    Nuwan Waidyanatha
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    Under a well-developed disaster management system, the Disaster Management Organization of a Country should be aware of and should map every significant emergency incident or risk in the country. Disseminating such information among multiple agencies with disparate systems can be complicated. Multi-Agency Situational-Awareness (MASA) platforms facilitate the integration of silo-ed Organizations and dilutes inter-agency rivalry…

  • Sahana @ linux.conf.au

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    Michael Howden
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    Last week I was able to attend linux.conf.au which was being hosted in my home town of Auckland. This was a great chance to spend time with people from the open source community from New Zealand, Australia and around the world. I was part of the Open Source for Humanitarian Tech Miniconf (http://linux.conf.au/schedule/30223/view_talk?day=monday), which also…

  • The 10th Anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Marks the Inception of Sahana

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    Martin Thomsen
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    “The beaches are purely white, the waves washing sandcastles away on the way out to the open sea, while the inhabitants of this paradise; that in daily day life is known as part of the Indian Ocean, are in a hurry to entertain the hundred of thousands of tourists that each year return to enjoy…

  • Sahana’s Ebola Response

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    Michael Howden
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    In August the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as an international public health emergency. Although media attention to the outbreak has decreased, the number of people who have died from Ebola (6,856 to date) continues to grow. Unlike most natural disasters where there is an initial death toll which then…

  • Update from the International Conference of Crisis Mappers

    Update from the International Conference of Crisis Mappers

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    Devin Balkind
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    I had the pleasure of attending the International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM) in my home town of New York City.  I was particularly excited about this event because I provide emergency management solutions to nonprofits in the New York City area, and I see lots of opportunities for these organizations to adopt some of…