I am forwarding this information, because the description of Sahana
seems interesting, but I am not able to assess the program technically.
All the best
Claude
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [FOSS-PDI] Sahana Heroes bring Sahana to Pakistan in response
to South Asia Earthquakes
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:22:37 +0500
From: Fouad Riaz Bajwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: bajwa @ fossfp.org, FOSS - Policy and Development Implications
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: FOSSFP: Free & Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to inform you that the Sri Lankan's Chamindra de Silva and
another volunteer developer are arriving in Islamabad today to deploy Sahana
that is a Free and Open Source Software disaster management system that
handles missing/displaced persons, camp management, assistance, trading
system, etc. These are the lead developers for the same system which was
used in Sri Lanka to co-ordinate aid for the Tsunami disaster.
Pakistan Software Export Board, Open Source Resource Centre, International
Open Source Network UNDP-IOSN are assisting them to Pakistan. FOSSFP will
keep you updated about their visit and sahana deployments.
More information on Sahana:
http://sahana.sourceforge.net/
http://news.info-share.net/?p=8
Why Sahana?
-----------
-Simple IT solutions can help the relief, recovery and rehabilitative work.
No solution exists globally; an opportunity to make the Tsunami work in our
favour for creating such a solution.
-Starting with a single people database (missing, IDPs, dead, orphans etc.)
Sahana now has several components.
-Project is now a global open source software project with contributors
lining up globally.
-Feedback from people experienced with disaster management and others has
been that Sahana is far more advanced than anything available today.
What is Sahana?
---------------
-Sahana is a collection of integrated applications which handle an
increasing amount of functionality.
-Organization registry: To keep track of various organizations participating
and what they do / can do etc.
-Request management system: To allow coordination of how requests from camps
and other places are serviced by various organizations.
-Camp registry: Database of camps, including historical information.
-People registry: Database of missing, IDPs, dead, orphans etc. (including
pictures, finger prints, DNA samples) with advanced search capabilities
More function being developed.
Regards.
---------------------------
Fouad Riaz Bajwa
General Secretary
FOSSFP: Free & Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan R
Phone #: 92 (042) 111-923-923 Ext: 27
Cell #: 92-333-4661290
e-mail: bajwa @ fossfp.org
Lahore-Pakistan.
URL: www.fossfp.org
Ubuntu-Pakistan
URL: www.ubuntu-pk.org
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Castione, Switzerland
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