// hfoss // transmissions
A talk at the AAAI Spring Symposium at Stanford tracing Sahana's evolution from the 2004 tsunami through twenty-plus deployments across 25 countries — and what humanitarian soft...
At ISCRAM Asia 2014, I presented on what makes disaster management software a distinct design problem — and why the open source community model, combined with humanitarian motiv...
We had a great series of events at the IOTX (http://www.iotxconvention.org/) with multiple events such as the Sahana Camp, OASIS CAP codefest, Sahana Training and ISCRAM. We had...
I would like to announce that we are organizing an emergency/disaster information systems interop workshop for the next ISCRAM 2011. The interop workshop will be an environment ...
Virtusa has been applying and contributing to Open Source R&D for quite a long time now, from Apache contributions on Web Services, to the Sahana Disaster Management project...
Telcoms infrastructure is often down or saturated during a disaster, however even if a mobile device cannot be used to dial a call or send an SMS, they inherently have another c...
At the Sahana Conference in Taipei I traced six years of evolution — from an emergency system built in ten days to a globally deployed platform — and argued that technical stand...
The recent UN APCICT/ESCAP Case Studies on ICT for Disaster Risk Reduction includes the Sahana project focusing on the experiences deploying Sahana for the Haiti Response. It in...
I have been involved in a Virtusa CSR initiative to support the rehabilitation efforts in Sri Lanka for the Commissioner General Rehabilitation’s Office. There are a lot of reha...
The UN World Food Program Food Request Portal based on the new SahanaPy framework went live last week and I hope it will serve to bring efficiencies to food distribution between...
I had an opportunity to meet Juliana Rotich, Co-Founder and Program Director of Ushahidi during the III Congress in Spain and we had a great discussion on how Sahana and Ushahid...
I had the opportunity to represent Sahana and Sri Lanka at III International Congress event in Gijon, Spain. The event was about building better corporation between “north” and ...
I was invited to the Sri Lankan President’s residence at temple trees today for the launch of the OLPC program in Sri Lankan. 1300 laptops are to be distributed to 13 rural scho...
We had a fantastic two weeks at Camp Roberts and accomplished a great deal for Sahana. This included the use of a $400 (two years ago price) eeePC/Netbook as our primary data co...
It is time to move on from the good ol Sahana Phase II framework that has served us and been used in disasters for 4-5 years now. I would thus like to take this opportunity to c...
At ISCRAM 2007 in Delft I made the case for Humanitarian FOSS as a distinct discipline — and used Sahana's first three years as the evidence that open source principles and huma...
Two years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, I presented Sahana to the Sri Lankan CTO community — arguing that open source humanitarian software wasn't a temporary crisis response ...