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SahanaTW

Hsiaojan Liu

Acadamic Sinica, Taiwan

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Morakot Awakened Taiwan

• Typhoon Morakot hit TW on Aug 8, 2009

• Existing response systems were overloaded

• One user mentioned about Sahana on Twitter

• Dr. Hsiao built Sahana on 11th, Aug then called up several volunteers to do translation with some helps from the simplified-chinese PO file

• IBM Taiwan also contributed to the translation work before they demonstrated Sahana to National Fire Agency

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Morakot Awakened Taiwan

• Several local developers set up various situation/alert systems from scratch and got lots of response soon

• Doctor Billy Pan worked on a situation map based on Google API and was supported by google day after

• Billy invited users to report situations via twitter • Above are the pioneer of digital response• http://twitter.com/PowerOp/status/3225129782

http://twitter.com/chsiao/status/3227294692

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No space for SahanaTW

• The first line people were too intensely nervous to know Sahanatw

• Paper work and spreadsheet are the disaster management tool between shelters and local government

• IT volunteers from Sinica became workers for sorting documents

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Task of SahanaTW Team• Localization-translation and modification - ID number is unique - search for big5 - MPM and DVM share the same db - fix RAC for openID - add/edit closure report in VM - unit the layout and GIS edit functionality for ORM, SRM, IM http://github.com/kiang/sahana-tw/issues

- Collect spec based on the information from interview for npo involved Morakot

• Promotion SahanaTW as a tool for daily operation with NPO

• Fund for advanced modification and big promotion

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We are on the road

• SahanaTW conference for 200 people will be hold on July,30 which is supported by III

• Modification for PHP is almost done

• Combination with PHP and PY(mapping, hospital,

messaging) is on the way and expected to be done by Oct.

• Migration from php to py is a plan for 2011

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Challenges• For government, adding budget is usually the first

response after a disaster• With mandate budget to execute, “free” is usually

not the top priority for government • Biz giants provide expensive one-stop solution for

the public sectors being the common practice in Taiwan

• Most users for SahanaTW are non-programmers• Non-profit orgs are picky for software, both UI and

functionalities• Fear of IT is still an issue for people in npo

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Opportunities

• Some small NPOs would like to try SahanaTW as a daily operation tool

• Key persons from gov will join the conference on 7/30 and in-person meeting with government official has arranged

• Connected to Sahana Foundation and get supports