Welcome to the Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System
Sahana is an set of web based disaster management applications that provide solutions to large-scale humanitarian coordination and collaboration problems in the aftermath of a disaster. The applications and problems they address are as follows:
- Situation Mapping - Giving you the current situation awareness on a map
- Missing Person Registry - Helping to reduce trauma by effectively finding missing persons
- Disaster Victim Registry - Tracing internally displaced people (IDPs) and their needs
- Organization Registry - Listing "Who is doing What, Where" allow relief agencies to self-distribute themselves better to address the gaps in disasters
- Request/Aid Management - Tracking all the requests for aid from the field and matching them against donars who have pledged aid
- Shelter Registry - Tracking the location, distibution, capacity and breakdown of victims in shelter
- Inventory Management - Effectively and efficiently manage relief aid, enables transfer of inventory items to different inventories and notify when items are required to refill.
- Messaging Module - Message through email and mobile phones to groups
- Catalogue System - Captures information on different catalogues and measurement units. Which is used in systems such as Inventory Management System and Request Management System.
- Synchronization - Syncronize of data between instances of Sahana.
For more detail on the Sahana system see the Sahana Website
For live help from the Sahana community on using this application goto the Sahana Community Chat
Administrator: John Graham.
Email: johng@telascience.org
Telephone: 858 692-3396
