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 Sahana Disaster Management System designed to follow the following hierarchical models. Sahana Disaster Management System designed to follow the following hierarchical models.
  
-__Human resource__+=== Human resources ===
  
-  * Site Administrator-  The authority who is involved with the setting up and initial configuration of the system. This is the top most layer of administration and next levels of users ( except Anonymous user ) should be created by site administrator. System location, and modules can be configured through site administrator privilege.  +  * **Site Administrators** - are IT technicians. \\ This level of priviledge sets up and initial configuration of the system. Site administrators are often known as "sys admins". They  have several important functions, including creating organization administrators, telling Sahana its location and activating modules depending on operational requirements.  
  
-  * Organization administrator – Who manages the registering users of a particular organization and assigning tasks to the users.+  * **Organization administrators** - are supervisors. \\ They manage the user registration and also assign tasks to registered users.
  
-  * Registered user – Organization operative. This level of user can manage organization resources.+  * **Registered users** - are staff. \\ This level of user can operates Sahana and can use organization resources.
  
-  * Anonymous user – Can view most of the informations available in the system. They can search and view data and submit missing person informations.+  * **Anonymous users** - are external visitors. \\ They can view most of the information available in the system. For example, they can search and view data and submit missing person reports.
  
  
-\\ +=== Organization hierarchy ===
-__Organization hierarchy__+
  
 +  * **Organizations** - represent whole agencies. \\ This term represents an operational organization. It may be located within the country affected or overseas. This level is represented by a parent organization, holding company or similar agency in that capacity.
 +  * **Departments**, **subsidiaries** or **branches** - represent sections of organizations that have been added to Sahana. \\ These are sub sections within an organization. These sub sections might have same or different physical locations of operation.
  
  
-  *Organization – Represents an organization operational in the management of a particular disaster situation. This might locate within the country affected or overseas. This level is represented by a parent organization, holding company or similar agency in that capacity. +=== Disaster Situation hierarchy ===
-  * Department, Subsidiary or Branch – These are sub sections within an organization. These sub sections might have same or different physical locations of operation.+
  
 +Disaster situations are represented by Sahana by three following keywords. Their definition is arbitrary, and can represent any three levels of incident as determined by the operational circumstances.
  
-\\ +  * **Disasters** - are defined as the overall situation for which Sahana has been deployed. \\ It may represent such as a flood in a general area. Note, if your deployment is for a city only, you will be required to have this as your top level.
-__Disaster situation hierarchy__+
  
- Disaster situations are represented by Sahana as follows. +  * **Events** - are subdisasters. \\ They might represent flooding in a city, as part of the disaster. 
-  * Disaster- The disaster situation an organization is providing relief services + 
-  * Event – Arbitrarily set sub areas of the disaster  +  * **Incidents** - are subsubdisasters. \\ They could represent individual buildings within the flooded city.
-  * Incident – Sub areas of event, which is defined for the disaster management activities+
  

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