Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System

The Sahana Free and Open Source Disaster Management System was conceived during the 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami. The system was developed to help manage the disaster and was deployed by the Sri Lankan government's Center of National Operations (CNO), which included the Center of Humanitarian Agencies (CHA). A second round of funding was provided by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA). The project has grown, with deployments during other disasters such as the Asian Quake in Pakistan , Southern Leyte Mudslide Disaster in Philippines and the Jogjakarta Earthquake in Indonesia .

Sahana currently has three projects: , being developed in Python; , being developed in PHP; and the localization project, L10n.

Functionality

The Sahana project aims to provide a set of modular, web-based disaster management applications.

• Missing Person Registry: An online bulletin board of missing and found people. It captures information about the people missing and found, and also the information of the person seeking them.
• Organization Registry: A collaborative “Who is doing what, where” tool which enables tracking of the relief organizations and other stakeholders working in the disaster region. It captures information about the places where each organisation is active and the range of services being provided.
• Request/Pledge Management System: An online repository where all relief organizations, relief workers, government agents and camps can effectively match requests of aid......
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