status: historic

Deployed by ACS, Indonesian Reliefsource

Official government deployment to track victims, organizations and camp locations. No innovation matters more than that which saves lives. Avelino J. Cruz, Jr., the Secretary of National Defense in the Philippines, on the use of Sahana software following disastrous mudslides in 2005.

Sahana was used to identify the location of relief camps and the demographic breakdown of over 26,000 victims to help them target relief.

Government deployed Sahana for missing persons reports, triage and patient intake records.

After the Chengdu-Sitzuan Earthquake of 2008 in China, Sahana was used by the Chengdu police to track over 40,000 families; 42 separated family members were reunited using Sahana.

Sahana was used as a registry of the nearly 700 organizations responding, tracked almost 10,000 requests for assistance and information.

In response to the devastating tornado which struck Joplin, Missouri on May 22, staff at the US National Library of Medicine have imported and synchronized their Sahana People Locator system with the official registry of missing persons maintained by the Missouri Department of Public Safety.

May 31, 2011 Update: Volunteer Sahana Japan Team publicly launches disaster relief information site at http://sahana.jp to register requests for assistance and information intended for use by local government and volunteer organizations that are taking part in the response and recovery efforts in Japan.

The Sahana Software Foundation’s Eden software, as part of IBM’s Smarter Command Center, is currently being used by the Chilean Red Cross (Cruz Roja) for the response to recent wildfires in Southern Chile.