2. What is Sahana Eden?
Open Source software platform built specifically
for Disaster Management
Highly Configurable so that it can be used in a
wide variety of different contexts
Easy to modify to build Custom Solutions to
adapt to changing environments
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3. What is Sahana Eden?
Data is easy to share with flexible Import/Export
options
Flexible Access Control
Free to use without restrictions:
MIT license
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5. Users
Red Cross
UN World Food Programme
Asia Disaster Preparedness Center
Philippines Government: DSWD
Nepal Government: DHM
Timor-Leste Government: NDMD
City of Los Angeles
India, Japan, Taiwan, Portugal
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6. Community
Sahana Software Foundation (501c3)
Google
Google Summer of Code
Google Code-In
Commercial Companies
Documentation:
Wiki
Book
Mailing List
IRC
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7. Deployment Options
Host locally in the
command center
on a Laptop
Host in the Cloud
Synchronize these 2 together...
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16. Dispatch
Assign Vehicles & People
Send a notification to them which includes the
map location
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17. Dispatch
Message can be read on any kind of phone
Basic Phone: Read text, copy Coordinates to GPS
Smart phone: Click on URL to open Maps
Android with App:
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Sahana Eden gives you a common platform to manage your People, Resources and Projects throughout mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery phases.
This holistic solution improves information sharing, engage stakeholders and strengthen resilience.
Used by real organisations for their daily needs.
These systems can connect up easily adding additional value, such as approved Red Cross projects being automatically uploaded to ADPC's DRR Projects Portal.
Integrate with different systems, using Open Standards wherever possible, but being driven by necessity.
Sahana Software Foundation is a member of the standards body, OASIS where we help shape standards like EDXL.
REST Interface allows the easy building of web services.
Themeable
Localisable
Reports and Graphs can easily be created from the data.
Numbers on spreadsheet are tedious and time-consuming to read and analyze. On a map you understand the same information in a split second.
Here is an example. The data is from Timor-Leste census conducted by UNFPA in 2010.
Here you can see in few seconds the sucos (level 3 admin layer between a subdistrict and a village in Timor-Leste) that have worst situation in terms of access to safe water sources. This helps drastically to decide e.g. where to start a new WatSan project.
Green: 100-75% of households have access to safe water source
Yellow: 74-50% of households have access to safe water source
Orange: 49-25% of households have access to safe water source
Red: 24-0% of households have access to safe water source
Mapping brings together many different elements from Crowdsourced reports to GIS datasets. The holistic view allows better planning of responses to target the biggest gaps.
