[Reader-list] Tue 12pm - Reach-out & Training for NGOs & Volunteers in Flood Relief
yasir ~يا سر
yasir.media at gmail.com
Mon Sep 6 15:52:34 IST 2010
Sahana Pakistan Flood Response 2010
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Reach-out & Training for
NGOs & Volunteers in Flood Relief
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Tomorrow 06 September 2010, Tuesday
Time 2:00pm - 2:00pm
Location HEC (Higher Education Commission), *Next **to TV Station,
Stadium Road*
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*** We would appreciate a note of confirmation if you are attending. Thanks.
Yasir*
More Info
Participants will be made familiar with the use of features, while we ask
for suggestions (for development priorities) based on flood relief
activities being undertaken by participants organizations/groups.
You send 2-3 people to our training session. Ideally this would be 1-2
persons of staff and 1 technical person (who can troubleshoot later as
needed). These people can then brief other people.
For details on what this is about see email below or :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sahana-Pakistan-Flood-Response-2010/145586795481844?v=info
*Streaming*: Yes (please confirm tomorrow)
https://streaming.hec.gov.pk/
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From: yasir ~يا سر <yasir.media at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 8:30 PM
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*** To Everyone involved in Flood Relief*
*** Organizations and Individuals*
*** Please attend & fwd to friends and colleagues*
Dear friends
I am involved with this great team of volunteers who are all professionals
and entrepreneurs in the IT area. Many of these are involved in social and
relief work under normal circumstances. They have come together to provide a
software solution to the chaos and mismanagement that occurs when trying to
provide and plan for flood relief on large scale. The team has already
customized the Sahana Eden software (being offered for free) for flood
relief work in Pakistan, and is continuing software development to how NGOs,
volunteers & volunteer organizations and district committees might better
utilize what it offers - a way to quickly manage, match and coordinate
disaster relief with many others in an ongoing way through cooperation.
We are holding a briefing & training session on *Monday or Tuesday*. Please
state when you can attend, and help spread the word. If you would like to
help in development or other area, let us know. A team is about to visit
Thatta and Sukkur - get in touch to schedule a meeting. More will follow.
Best wishes,
yasir ~يا سر
A number of organizations are already on board:
+ The Citizen Foundation,
+ Air Force Southern Command,
+ PILER,
+ PFF Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum [northern Sindh, coastal areas, makli,
dadu]
+ Sindh labour Relief Committee [Hub, Moro, Thatta, Makli]
+ Sindh Social Forum
+ Digital Activists Group DAG
+ IDSP
+ others
we are also talking to:
+ TRDP Thardeep Rural Support programme
[Dadu, Jamshoro, Khairpur and Thar Districts]
+ SRSO [9 districts in sindh]
+ Edhi Foundation
+ Other citizen, activist, environmental, academic, culture, volunteer
groups
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*SAHANA in Pakistan August 2010*
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http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org/eden/default/about
http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org/eden/default/contact
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*The SAHANA project for flood relief invites NGOs and individuals*
The Sahana project is a web-based disaster relief management tool for
large-scale humanitarian disasters. The Software tool has been customized
for flood relief management in Pakistan, in which organizations' and
individuals' expertise, particular needs and pledges, and incidents and
relief services are matched, coordinated and tracked. Many organizations are
already on board. As more come on board, effectiveness of aid where it is
needed, will increase.
Website Sahana Eden in Pakistan 2010:
http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org/eden/default/index
Organizations, NGOs, volunteers, journalists and activists working in Flood
Relief efforts are invited to use the system for relief & rehab, to their
advantage. Organizations are individually registered and may track their own
work and supplies. Training is being provided to organizations and
volunteers to use the software, which also uses reporting through mobile
phones. Sahana Eden is integrated with the Pakreport site
http://pakreport.org/ushahidi/ to which anyone can send an SMS report. One
can send the SMS to 3441 and start the message with FL followed by text - a
flood related report, need, or update.
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*Training Sessions*
Organizations may request briefing and training sessions. Please contact:
Azhar Rizvi azharrizvi [at] gmail [dot] com
Yasir Husain yasir [dot] media [at] gmai [dot] com
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*Sahana's Pakistan Team*
Sahana's Flood Relief Management effort is led by Azhar Rizvi (TAN America
Fund I, LP, MIT Enterprise Forum of Pakistan <http://www.mitef-pakistan.org>
and Rotary International). Sahana Foundation's international team works with
a Pakistani team customizing and continuously developing the software in
Pakistan. In addition the team includes several IT departments in Pakistan,
the Higher Education Commission (HEC), and an initial group of
volunteers: Imran Haider (saphirecs.net <http://www.saphirecs.net>) , Adnan
Masood, Adnan Lawai (folio3.com <http://www.folio3.com/>), Ayal Abbas
(Sofcom), Sarfaraz Malik, Asif Hussain, Dr. Shoaib, Dr. Najmi, Hasnain
Akhtar, Adnan Masood, Yasir Husain (Media Theory), and Zuhair Siddiqui.
Sahana Pakistan users' group:
http://groups.google.com/group/sahana-pakistan-2010
*SAHANA Overview *
*The software itself is expensive running into six figures, and is being
offered by Sahana Foundation for use in Pakistan for free.
*The Sahana Agasti project has seven [7]
modules that address common disaster
coordination and collaboration problems. Sahana Eden is being customized and
localized at the moment and may have some of the same features:
***Request/Pledge Management System:* An online repository where all relief
organizations, relief workers, government agents and camps can effectively
match requests of aid and supplies to pledges of support. It tracks aid
provision from request to fulfillment.
*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 organization is active and the range of services being provided.
*Shelter Registry:* Keeps track of the location and basic data of
shelters in the region. It also provides a geospatial view to plot the
location of the camps in the affected area.
*Inventory Management*: Tracking the location, quantities, expiry of
supplies stored for utilization in a disaster
*Situation Awareness:* Gives an overview of the event and allows people to
add information on what is happening on the ground. It features the ability
to plot a note and a photo with additional information on a Map, so that
people can collaboratively capture the current disaster situation.
*Volunteer coordination:* Helps NGOs keep track of all their volunteers,
their contact information, project allocation, availability and skills to
help them distribute staff resources.
*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.
Sahana also includes tools for synchronization between multiple
instances, allowing for *responders or district offices* to capture data on
instances in the field and exchange the data with
other field offices, headquarters or responders
*Past Deployment by Sahana*
** Sahana Agasti**
Tsunami - Sri Lanka 2005 - Officially deployed in the CNO for the
Government of Sri Lanka
AsianQuake - Pakistan 2005 - Officially deployed with NADRA for the
Government of Pakistan
Southern Leyte Mudslide Disaster - Philippines 2006 - Officially deployed
with the NDCC and ODC for the Government of Philippines
Sarvodaya - Sri Lanka 2006 - Deployed for Sri Lanka's largest NGO
Terre des Hommes - Sri Lanka 2006 - Deployed with new Child Protection
Module
Yogjakarta Earthquake - Indonesia 2006 - Deployed by ACS, urRemote and
Indonesian whitewater association and Indonesian Rescue Source
Peru Earthquake - Peru 2007 - Deployed and localized into Spanish.
Myanmar Cyclone - Myanmar 2008- Currently working in progress to deploy and
localize into Burmese.
** Sahana Eden ** (for rapid deployment & customization)
Haiti Earthquake - Haiti 2010- Currently working in progress to deploy and
localize into Port-au-Prince and Haiti.
Pakistan Floods - 2010 - under deployment
*Tech Details *
Developers: Sahana Software Foundation
Sahana Agasti
release 0.6.3 / 2010-0407
written in PHP, Javascript, Perl, HTML
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform Apache, MySQL
License: LGPL
Sahana Eden
r1156 (2010-09-01 07:49:23) (on 03Sep2010 pakistan.sahanafoundation.org)
written in Python, & based on the web2py framework
License: MIT
Sahana Agasti is available in English - Language packs available for
v.0.6.2.2 for Arabic, Bahasa Indonesian, Bengali, Burmese, Simplified
Chinese, English/UK, English/US, German, Hindi, Portuguese &
Portuguese/Brazil, Russian, Sinhala, Spanish, Spanish/Latin America, and
Tamil.
Sahana Eden information is being updated as the software is being
customized.
for more information:
Website: http://www.sahanafoundation.org ,
Sahana Eden in Pakistan:
http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org/eden/default/index
Azhar Rizvi azharrizvi [at] gmail [dot] com
Yasir Husain yasir [dot] media [at] gmai [dot] com
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