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Haiti 2010 Sahana Disaster Response Portal
Live Capabilities and Modules
NewsTicker
Live feed of latest news on Haiti earthquake response from UN agency and international non-governmental organization sources.
Organization Registry
Provides a searchable database of organizations responding to the disaster, the sector where they are providing services, their activities and their contact details. Status as of 19 January 2010 at 0400 UTC
- Number of organizations registered: 175
- Number of offices registered: over 55
- Number of activities registered: 1
- Number of contacts registered: over 139
Situation Mapping
Provides you an integrated annotated map of what is happening in Haiti right now. We are pulling maps and events from multiple sources current incidents shown against the latest high resolution satellite imagery & rapidly-updating OpenStreetMap layers. Sources of data include:
- Base layers:
- Open Street Maps current Haiti maps project (3 options for graphic style and amount of detail)
- Digital Globe Hi-Resolution Imagery (2010-1-14)
- Ikonos Imagery (2010-1-15,2010-1-17)
- Google Maps (Terrain, Hybrid, Satellite)
- 1:12.5k Topo Maps for PaP
- 1:50k Top Maps
- Data layers:
- Sahana Organization Registry
- Sahana Locations data (hospitals and medical facilities)
- Ushahidi (haiti.ushahidi.com) Events
- Open Street Map as an Overlay to be able to dislpay over imagery
- Open Street Maps Points of Interest
Data Feeds
We have feeds of all data collected by Sahana in the following formats:
- kml
- georss
- xml
- xls
- csv
- json
- gpx
- pfif (in place for missing persons data exchange with google)
Sample links - provides feeds of data collected by Sahana including organization offices (if geo-location is known), hospitals and medical facilities.
- KML feeds (open in Google Earth):
- http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/gis/location.kml?feature_class=%Hospital (includes Field Hospitals too)
- GeoRSS feeds:
- http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/gis/location.georss?feature_class=%Hospital (includes Field Hospitals too)
- XML feeds:
- http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/gis/location.xml?feature_class=%Hospital (includes Field Hospitals too)
- XLS feeds (will open in a spreadsheet):
- http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/gis/location.xls?feature_class=%Hospital (includes Field Hospitals too)
- CSV feeds:
- http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/gis/location.csv?feature_class=%Hospital (includes Field Hospitals too)
- JSON feeds (even JavaScript Open Notation!):
- http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/gis/location.json?feature_class=%Hospital (includes Field Hospitals too)
- GPX feeds (use on your GPS):
- http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/gis/location.gpx?feature_class=%Hospital (includes Field Hospitals too)
Request Management System
We have integrated with the 4636 project sponsored by the US State Department whereby persons within Haiti can send a free text SMS message to short code 4636 within Haiti with a request for assistance. These messages are translated and structured within Ushahidi and then pulled into Sahana's Request Management System via a georss feed. Currently, we offer the ability for organizations to view and search a categorized list of categorized aid requests within Sahana. We are currently working on a system for organizations to claim requests for fulfillment and later to mark them as completed tasks.
We have also integrated with Tweak the Tweet.
Persons Registry
The Persons Registry serves as the main repository of all person-specific contact information for organization staff - linked to the organization registry.
We support and promote the entry of missing and found persons information on the main google site for aggregating this information (at http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/). There is a widget on our homepage such that entry into this site can be done directly.
As needed, we will be sync-ing the missing persons registry within Sahana with the google list for use in other applications, such as the DVI (see below).
Hospital Management System
Allows the sharing of infroamtion aout medical facilities, supports EDXL-HAVE.
Disaster Victims Identification Registry
This module is ready for deployment if an organisation wishes to make use of it, but is currently not active on the Production portal.
It can be previewed on the Development version.
Assists the management of fatalities and the identification of the deceased. Features Include:
- Reporting of body finds and management of recovery
- Tracking and Tracing of bodies
- Capturing of identification-relevant information
- Management of identification process
This system is available for an organization tasked with these responsibilities and will be secured from public access due to the sensitivity of the information (see Deployment Policy). Reconciled data with missing and found persons reports will be pushed back to the google registry of missing persons.
Volunteer Management System
Provides a simple tool for an organisation to manage their volunteers.
This facility is ready for deployment, but is disabled on the production portal.
It can be previewed on the Development version.
It is envisaged that it could be used by local offline instances.
Capabilities and Modules in Development
Easy Install of a custom version - Portable version of Sahana which includes the tools above. Can run standalone or integrate with the central portal.
