2018 End of Year Update
Sahana Software Foundation had its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on December 5th, 2018 via a 3-hour long conference call. Approximately a dozen people participated. At the beginning of the call […]
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Cleanup your CAP: towards a decentralized, immutable, and trusted alert network
Picking up from the discussion on Alerthub, back in 2016 in Bangkok, we developed a hook to update our repository whenever the WMO Register of Alerting Authorities had change; the […]
Sahana First Response acceptable for Seychelles
Sahna First Response (SaFiRe) prototype was designed, for simple and small Emergency Operation Centers (EOCs), with the intention of looking for potential opportunities for implementations. The wish came true when the Seychelles Department […]
Inclusive Public Services for Linguistically Challenged presented @ CPRsouth2018
Smart Governments, as part of their Smart Cities programs, must include linguistically challenged in public information and services. Pictographs (pictograms or symbology) can play an important role in disaster communication. […]
SSF President Explains “The Rise of Open Aid” at NVOAD Annual Conference
I had the honor of presenting “The Rise of Open Aid” at the 2018 NVOAD conference in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. The presentation offered an overview of what is increasingly known […]
Stone Souping Social Service Information with Airtable in New York City
The Sahana Software Foundation was recently awarded a microgrant by Open Referral (using funding from Stanford’s Digital Impact program, with fiscal sponsorship from the Alliance of Information and Referral Services) […]
Attend Our Free Training in New York City on Making Your Own Services Databases with AirTable
Do you manage information about health, human and social services in the nonprofit and government sectors in the New York City area? Are you interested in learning about free tools that […]
“ShaRe” for bridging Social Capital during Crises
During the immediate aftermath of a disaster, it’s the neighboring communities or unaffected people in the area that activate to assist the victims with the basic needs of food, water, […]
Sahana Awarded Grant by Open Referral for AirTable-Powered Homeless Services Directories in New York City
The following proposal won a micro-grant from the Open Referral Project in December, 2017, and is now underway in New York City. Learn more at our Open Referral NYC project […]
Open Referral NYC
Homeless Services Directories For New York City Advancing Open Referral, Open Source and Open Data Open Referral is a community of practice in which technologists, social service referral providers, policy-makers […]