5. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9.
10. 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!
11.
12. 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
13.
14. 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
15.
16. 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
17.
18.
19. 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
21. 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
22. 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
Editor's Notes
Highlights the value of the EDEN approach.
Lax building regulations combined with poverty meant the vulnerability was higher than necessary.
Highlights the value of the EDEN approach.
Hurricane Katrina in the US had 50 different MPRs without any interoperability!
PFIF: Person Finder Interchange Format
We helped Google fix their implementation of PFIF.
http://hepl.nlm.nih.gov/inw/
MGRS coordinates which is what US Responders wanted
Hospital AVailability Exchange
http://epic.cs.colorado.edu/
Project EPIC
Empowering the Public with Information in Crisis
Use requires modifications of Tweet messages to make information pieces that refer to #location, #status, #needs, #damage and several other elements of emergency communications more machine readable.
Display WMS, KML & Internal Resources over an OpenStreetMap base layer (or Google, or Yahoo)
