SahanaCamp NYC Day 1 AM: Sahana Software Solutions

1. Welcome to
SahanaCamp NYC
May 22-25, 2012
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2. What is
SahanaCamp NYC?
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3. What is SahanaCamp NYC?
SahanaCamp NYC is a program of the Sahana
Software Foundation.
A SahanaCamp provides:
understanding of how Sahana Software can help
manage information before, during and after disasters
a practical technical workshop to provide instruction in
how Sahana Software can be deployed within and
across organizations
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4. Thanks to our Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors:
Gold Sponsor: Host:
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5. SahanaCamp NYC Agenda
Day One: Tues., May 22nd Day Two: Weds., May 23rd
Sahana Software Solutions Deploying Sahana Software
Morning Morning
Introduction to Sahana & Sahana Emergency
SahanaCamp NYC Management System
Case Studies & Partnerships with SSF
Demonstrations Afternoon
Afternoon Sahana Eden
Disaster Simulation Managing the Project
Your Requirements
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6. SahanaCamp NYC Agenda
Day Three: Thurs., May Day Four: Fri., May 25th
24th
Developing with Sahana
Developing with Sahana Eden
Eden
Morning
Morning Technical Breakout
Technical Introduction Sessions
Installing a Developer's Code Sprint
Environment Afternoon
Building Applications
Code Sprint
Afternoon Next Step Local Projects
Resources
Modifying Applications
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7. SahanaCamp NYC
Daily Schedule
8:45 AM Breakfast Tuesday & Wednesday
9:00 AM Morning Program begins
10:15 AM Morning Break (15 min)
12:00 PM Lunch (Downstairs)
1:00 PM Afternoon Program begins
3:00 PM Afternoon Break (15 min)
5:00 PM Adjourn
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8. Introductions
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9. Our Facilitators
Michael Fran Dominic
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10. YOU
Please tell us:
Name
Where are you from (organization & city)?
What do you hope to get out of
SahanaCamp NYC?
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11. Questions?
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12. Making Chaos Manageable
“No innovation matters more
than that which saves lives”
Avelino J. Cruz, Jr., Secretary of National Defense of the Philippines
on the use of Sahana following disastrous mudslides in 2005
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13. Disaster Trends
World’s urban population will reach 6.4 billion by 2050 (that’s
70% of the world’s projected population of 9.2 billion)
- United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects, 2007
World’s population and economic centers are concentrated in “vulnerable cities near earthquake faults,
on river deltas or along tropical coasts.”
- the Economist, January 14, 2012
Growing vulnerability to to an increased incidence of costly
disasters
By 2050 the city populations exposed to tropical cyclones or earthquakes will more than double, rising
from 11% to 16% of the world’s population.
- United Nations & World Bank, Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention, 2010
By 2070, seven of the ten greatest urban concentrations of economic assets that are exposed to
coastal flooding will be in the developing world (vs. none in 2005). Assets exposed to flooding will rise
from 5% of the world GDP to 9%.
- OECD, Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes : Exposure Estimates, 2007
Global annual disaster spending will triple to $185 billion by
2100
- United Nations & World Bank, Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention, 2010
Spending on urban infrastructure to approach $350 trillion over next 30 years.
- Booz & Co., Reinventing the City to Combat Climate Change, 2010
2011 was costliest year ever for disasters (earthquakes in Japan & New Zealand, flooding in China,
Australia & Thailand, tornadoes in US).
Five of ten costliest disasters have occurred in last five years.
20% of aid is now spent responding to disasters; only 0.7% is spent on mitigation.
President Obama declared record 99 disaster declarations in 2011.
- the Economist, January 14, 2012
March 21, 2012 DISASTER ROUNDTABLE 13
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14. Disaster Trends
World’s urban population will reach 6.4 billion by 2050 (that’s
70% of the world’s projected population of 9.2 billion)
- United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects, 2007
World’s population and economic centers are concentrated in “vulnerable cities near earthquake faults,
on river deltas or along tropical coasts.”
- the Economist, January 14, 2012
Growing vulnerability to to an increased incidence of costly
disasters
By 2050 the city populations exposed to tropical cyclones or earthquakes will more than double, rising
from 11% to 16% of the world’s population.
- United Nations & World Bank, Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention, 2010
By 2070, seven of the ten greatest urban concentrations of economic assets that are exposed to
coastal flooding will be in the developing world (vs. none in 2005). Assets exposed to flooding will rise
from 5% of the world GDP to 9%.
- OECD, Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate Extremes : Exposure Estimates, 2007
Global annual disaster spending will triple to $185 billion
by 2100
- United Nations & World Bank, Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention, 2010
Spending on urban infrastructure to approach $350 trillion over next 30 years.
- Booz & Co., Reinventing the City to Combat Climate Change, 2010
2011 was costliest year ever for disasters (earthquakes in Japan & New Zealand, flooding in China,
Australia & Thailand, tornadoes in US).
Five of ten costliest disasters have occurred in last five years.
20% of aid is now spent responding to disasters; only 0.7% is spent on mitigation.
President Obama declared record 99 disaster declarations in 2011.
- the Economist, January 14, 2012
March 21, 2012 DISASTER ROUNDTABLE 14
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15. Disasters are
A Growth Industry
There is both Opportunity
And Responsibility
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16. What is a Disaster?
“A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a
society, causing widespread human, material or
environmental losses which exceeds the ability of the
affected society to cope using only its own resources”
- Source: UNDP
“Any Event or Circumstance (happening with or without
warning) that causes or threatens death or injury,
disruption to the community on such a scale that the
effects cannot be dealt with by the emergency services,
local authorities and other organizations as part of their
normal day to day activities”
- UK Home Office
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17. Aftermath of Disasters
The trauma caused by waiting to
be found or find the next of kin
Coordinating all aid groups and
helping them to operate
effectively as one
Managing the multitude of
requests from the affected region
and matching them effectively to
the pledges of assistance
Tracking the location of all
temporary shelters, camps, etc.
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18. Tasks Facing Responders
Search and Rescue Tracing Missing
Evacuation Persons
Setting up Shelters Trauma Counseling
Effective Distribution Assuring Security of
of Aid Affected Areas
Management of Donor Protecting Children
and Donations Rehabilitation
Life Saving decisions need to be made fast!
The best decisions are the most informed ones
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19. How Can Technology Help?
Scalable management of information
No stacks of forms and files to manage
Efficient distribution of information
Accessibility of information on demand
Automatic collation and calculation
No delay for assessments and calculations
Live situational awareness
Reports are updated live as data is entered
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20. Sahana Software Foundation
The Sahana Software Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization dedicated to the mission of saving lives by
providing information management solutions that enable
organizations and communities to better prepare for and
respond to disasters.
We develop free and open source software and provide
services that help solve concrete problems and bring
efficiencies to disaster response coordination between
governments, aid organizations, civil society and disaster
survivors themselves.
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21. What is Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS)?
The code is openly available
for anyone to use and modify
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22. The Historic Trigger:
2004 Indian Ocean Earthquake &
Tsunami
At least 226,000 dead
Up to 5 million people
lost their homes, or
access to food and
water
1 million people left
without a means to
make a living
At least $7.5 billion in
the cost of damages
“Facts and Figures: Asian Tsunami Disaster”
New Scientist, 20 January 2005
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23. Sahana first deployed for
Sri Lanka tsunami response
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24. Core Capabilities:
Track People, Places and Things
Organization, Staff &
Volunteer Registry
Understanding 4W: “Who What
Where When”: Maintains data
(contacts, services) of groups,
organizations, staff, and
volunteers responding to the
disaster, including training and
skills information.
Missing Persons /
Disaster Victims Registry
Helps track and find missing
and found, deceased, injured
and displaced people and
families
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25. Core Capabilities:Track Needs
Requests, Assets and
Resource Management
Manages requests,
assessments and reports and
helps match commitments for
support, donations, available
assets and supplies through to
fulfillment
Geospatial Analysis
Provides situational awareness
of all important locations to the
disaster response, such as
shelters, hospitals,
warehouses, incident reports,
and assessments.
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26. Sahana Software Projects
Eden (Python/web2py)– Agasti (PHP)
Emergency Development Vesuvius – provides Lost
Environment Person Finder & Hospital
Supported by a number of Triage Management (NLM)
stakeholders, including IFRC, Kilauea – provides shelter
ADPC, APBV, LA EMD, ARC, registration (CUNY/OEM)
CERT, the HELIOS Foundation
Mayon – provides Emergency
and others.
Resource Management and
Flexible rapid application Scenario Planning for large
development platform with a municipalities (CUNY/OEM)
rich feature set
Standards & Interoperability
Designed for humanitarian
organizations and agencies Promotes adoption of open
engaged in disaster relief. data standards and
interoperability between
humanitarian FOSS projects.
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27. Technology and Features
Environments
Linux, Windows, OSX
PortableApps, VMWare
Cloud / EC2
Translation & Localization
Pootle, Character Sets
Right-to-left scripting
Open Data Standards
KML, WMS, GeoRSS, WPS
EDXL, CAP, JSON, XML
Mobile Accessibility
J2ME, HTML 5, Xforms
JavaRosa, OCR, NetBooks
•
XO Laptops
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28. Deployments
Disaster Response Deployments Preparedness Deployments
Wildfires in Chile – 2012 WFP & Government of the Philippines – 2012
Hurricane Irene in New York – 2011 Los Angeles Emer Mgmt Dept – 2011
Tornado in Joplin, Missouri - 2011 CERT, Chicago, Illinois – 2011
Sendai Earthquake & Tsunami in Japan – 2011
Earthquake in Turkey – 2011 Helios Foundation – 2011
Christchurch Earthquake in New Zealand - APBV (Bombeiros) in Portugal – 2011
2011 IFRC, Asia Pacific – 2010
Flooding in Colombia – 2011 Philippines Red Cross in the Philippines – 2010
Flooding in Venezuela – 2010 SahanaTaiwan (Institute for Information
Flooding in Pakistan – 2010 Industry, Academia Sinica) in Taiwan – 2010
Hurricane in Veracruz, Mexico – 2010 Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Bangkok,
Earthquake in Chile – 2010 Thailand – 2010
Earthquake in Haiti – 2010
Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar – 2008 Natl Dis Relief Services Ctr, Sri Lanka – 2010
Chengdu-Sitzuan Earthquake, China – 2008 US National Library of Medicine – 2009
Bihar Floods, India – 2008 Bethesda Hosp Emerg Prep Partnrship – 2009
• Ica Earthquake, Peru – 2007 Nati Coord Ag for Dis Mgmt in Indonesia – 2009
Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh – 2007 Natl Dis Coord Council in the Philippines – 2009
Yogjakarta Earthquake, Indonesia – 2006 LirneAsia, Sri Lanka - 2008
Landslides in the Philippines– 2005
Kashmir Earthquake in Pakistan – 2005
• Sarvodaya (NGO), Sri Lanka – 2008
Indian Ocean Earthquake & Tsunami in Sri NYC Office of Emergency Management – 2007
Lanka – 2004
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29. The New
Disaster Information
Environment
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30. Haiti Earthquake & The
“New Information Environment”
New information and communication technologies, new information providers, and new
international communities of interest emerged during the Haiti earthquake response
that will forever change how humanitarian information is collected, shared, and
managed. Humanitarian responders used social networking media, mobile phone text
messaging, open source software applications, and commercial satellite imagery more than
ever before. Outside of the established international humanitarian community, volunteers and
participatory reporters from the affected population became new sources of data and
information. Humanitarian organizations, host governments, and the donor community
will all need to adapt to this new information environment.
US Department of State Humanitarian Information Unit, White Paper: Haiti Earthquake: Breaking New
Ground in the Humanitarian Information Landscape, July 2010
New partners are offering faster, more effective means of analyzing an ever-increasing
volume and velocity of data. The challenge ahead is how to create an effective interface
between these resources, and create an eco-system where each actor understands its role. It
will not be easy. Volunteer and technical communities (V&TCs) like OpenStreetMap,
Sahana and CrisisMappers approach problems in ways that challenge the status quo.
UN Foundation, Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies, 2011
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31. The New Disaster Information
Environment
Government & Emergency Services relief capacity has
been exceeded or crippled
To meet response requirements, the boundary of the
effort extends to external groups (NGOs, civil society,
foreign aid, UN agencies)
Core Decision Makers need to consult a wider group and
gather information from nontraditional “uninitiated”
sources for better Situational Awareness
CROWDSOURCING & SOCIAL MEDIA
OPEN SOURCE & OPEN STANDARDS
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32. Best Practices: Open Standards and
Information Sharing Agreements/MOUs
Standards Organizations
Missing Persons Community
of Interest 2012
Safe and Well
EDXL-
EDXL-
TEC
TEC
PFIF
PFIF
Travax
Haiti Hospital Data
(Proposed) 2010
Google
EDXL- Resource
Sahana HAVE
Finder
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33. Leveraging New Technologies
How do you understand in 140 characters:
 Source, credibility, verification, validation, location,
prioritization, categorization, causation, responsibility
Challenge: appropriately integrate publicly available
information with trusted systems.
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34. Sahana Partners & Stakeholders
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35. City of New York
Shelter Management
Sahana Mayon – Scenario
Management Defines:
Scenarios
Resource Types
Facility Groups
Staff Requirements
Staff Pools and Shifts
Sahana Kilauea
Family and Individual Registration
at Shelters
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36. US National Library of Medicine
People Locator Project
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37. US National Library of Medicine
People Locator Project
Sahana Vesuvius
Event Manager
Report a Person
Web or Email
Edit Full Person Record
Search for a Person
PFIF Interoperability with
Google Person Finder
TriagePic
ReUnite iPhone App
LIVE SITE at
HTTP://PL.NLM.NIH.GOV
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38. Sahana Eden
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39. Sahana Eden
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40. Sahana Eden
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41. Free and Open Source Software Projects
Freedom to use, analyze, modify and re-distribute
Available for everybody at no cost
Open for research and development
Collaboratively developed by a Global community
Mark Prutsalis
President & CEO, Sahana Software Foundation
http://SahanaFoundation.org
Mark@SahanaFoundation.org
@SahanaFOSS #Sahana
http://www.slideshare.net/SahanaFOSS
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