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Sahana :Case Studies
3 November 2010, Sahana Camp
Fran Boon & Michael Howden
Overview
• Haiti Earthquake, January 2010• Food Requests Portal• Pakistan Floods, July 2010• Veracruz Cyclone, September 2010• DRR Project Portal
Haiti, January 2010
Rapidly-changing requirements• Missing Person Registry• Mapping• Organization Registry• Hospital Management• Volunteer Registry• WFP: Food Request Portal
Missing Person Registry
• We persuaded the response community to standardize on PFIF as a tool for interoperability• Google provided a multilingual widget for
embedding into sites• US National Library of Medicine built a
Sahana front-end called iWall
PFIF
Mapping• High-resolution Satellite Imagery
available quickly (26 hrs)• OpenStreetMap volunteers used this & old
printed maps to quickly cover Port-au-Prince
• These were made available as basemaps on handheld GPS
Mapping
• Texts from people trapped under the rubble were geolocated using these maps• 1st Responders were given
coordinates for where to look & had the GPS basemaps
Organization Registry
• Army of volunteers input data from a multitude of spreadsheets– We had the best data & it was accessible
• Hospital Management– We had the best data & it was accessible– EDXL-HAVE compliant
• Volunteer Management– Built in 48 hours!
Request Management
• ‘Closing the Loop’ for data from:– SMS (4636)– Twitter (Tweak the Tweet)
• Matching Requests with Pledges• RSS feeds provided by these projects
were parsed & put into new UI
Food Requests Portal
• World Food Programme• Implementing Partners request Food
deliveries for their zones• WFP approves & schedules collection or
delivery (with armed escort, where-requested)• SMS Notifications
Pakistan Floods 2010• Largest Emergency in History of UN
• Community response effort
• Worked with Rotary Club in Pakistan
• Rapidly implemented new structured data models
• Implemented new features:• Rapid Assessment Tool
• Right to Left support
• Mapping Tools
• Inventory
Sahana Didn’t Work!
• When a disaster hits it is too late to deploy
• Lack of baseline data – locations
• No Urdu translation
• Poor SMS infrastructure
• Crowd-sourcing failed
• Inter-Organisational vs. Intra-Organisational
Veracruz, September 2010
What went well?
• Rapid setup of Infrastructure, so users could focus on usage• they took full ownership of data whilst we
focussed on Infrastructure
• Locations Hierarchy available in Wikipedia• we prioritised this before release
• Localisation into Spanish• Flexible use of Google Maps instead of
OSM
DRR Project Portal
• A website to facilitate coordination and collaboration on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) projects
• Asia Disaster Preparedness Center
• International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) Asia Partnership