SAHANA Opensource Workshop

SIG Workshops
SAHANA Opensource Workshop
Sunday 10-05-2009
09:00 -16:00

Chairs: Bartel van de Walle, Tilburg University. The Netherlands
Ingo Simonis, Geospatial Research. Germany
Room: ISCRAM 2

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 a government's Center of National Operations (CNO), which included the Center of Humanitarian Agencies (CHA). Based on the success of this initial application and the dire need for good disaster management solutions, particularly to handle large-scale disasters, Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) funded a second phase through LSF (Lanka Software. SIDA did much to foster the capability of the project and the global community, now 170+ strong around it.

This workshop will bring Sahana developers, experts, and users together to discuss the current status of Sahana, future developments, additional requirements, usability, and experiences made in disaster management missions. The workshop is organized by the IRMA project team. IRMA, Integrated Risk Management for Africa, is a Collaborative Research Project, co-funded by the European Commission as part of the 7th Framework Program.