Sunday, August 2, 2009

SAHANA

Source: http://www.sahana.lk

WIKI page

Screen shots

Download page
Available in
PortableApps package which can run from a USB stick
or here

Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.

Sahana is a web-based disaster management application that provides management solutions, focusing on large-scale humanitarian disasters. It enables enhanced coordination by promoting integrated information gathering. It assists collaboration by providing a number of communication mechanisms in the aftermath of a disasters. Sahana is built from free and open source software and released under the GNU Lesser General Public Licence, which means all users are free to download and use it (and are even free to create commercial derivatives of it)...

How Sahana is useful in disaster situations

Sahana functions both online as well as a stand alone tool for disaster management, depending on the operational considerations. Users can access it via their local machine, from within the network, as part of a corporate intranet or anywhere in world via the Internet. This means it can be installed on a laptop, for workers in the field and at a central command center for overall coordination. When machines are linked, all information can be synchronised, via USB, CD-R the LAN or the Internet...

Supported Operating Systems and Web Browsers

Sahana supports all modern operating systems and browsers, including MS Windows, Mac OSX, Ubuntu and other Unix-like systems. Your browser must have JavaScript enabled, and your operating system must be able to run the Apache HTTP Server, the PHP programming language and MySQL database software. If you don't know what these are, the Installation Guides below will assist you.

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