Sahana Free and open source disaster management system
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Free and open source disaster management system Sahana is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, managing aid, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.Sahana is an integrated set of pluggable, web based disaster management applications that provide solutions to large-scale humanitarian problems in the aftermath of a disaster. Sahana's aspirations are as follows:· Primary: Help alleviate human suffering and help save lives through the efficient use of IT during a disaster· Bring together a diverse set of actors from Government, Emergency Management, NGOs, INGOs, spontaneous volunteers and victims themselves in responding effectively to a disaster· Empower the victims, responders, volunteer to better enable them to help themselves and others· Protect victim data and reduce the opportunity for data abuse· Provide a Free and Open Source solution end-to-end available to everyone Here are some key features of "Sahana": · Missing Person Registry - Helping to reduce trauma by effectively finding missing persons · Organization Registry - Coordinating and balancing the distribution of relief organizations in the affected areas and connecting relief groups allowing them to operate as one · Request Management System - Registering and Tracking all incoming requests for support and relief upto fulfillment and helping donors connect to relief requirements · Camp Registry - Tracking the location and numbers of victims in the various camps and temporary shelters setup all around the affected area · Volunteer Management - Coordinate the contact info, skills, assignments and availability of volunteers and responders · Inventory Management - Tracking the location, quantities, expiry of supplies stored for utilization in a disaster · Situation Awareness - Providing a GIS overview of the situation at hand for the benefit of the decision makers Requirements: · PHP 5.0 or later · MySQL 4.1 or later · Apache 2.0 or later What's New in This Release: · Fixed password re-appearance on form in the setup if a page has errors. · Added support for hosted environments. Home · Added an About Sahana page. Disaster Victims Registry · Added validations for the group head when adding new individuals. · Added validation to check numeric values. · Added a block image when person image is not available. · Added confirmation messages with person name instead of person id. Missing Person Registry · Fixed image loosing bug when updating a missing person · Re-edit button added to confirmation page of edit missing person · Fixed address loosing bug when updating a missing person · Confirmation message added to remove tracker in edit missing person Inventory Management System · Fixed an unnecessary ACL check when the user wasn't logged in. Organization Registry · The organization search now displays as the default option in drop down boxes. Volunteer Management · Added Internationalization support. · Added option to enable/disable soundex search under 'Advanced Search'. · Fixed skills tree to support non-native language with utf8 character delimiters. · Added paging support to pages which return large number of records. · Added tool to convert template (tpl) files to inc files to support xgettext scripting. · Fixed minor Internet Explorer browser incompatibility problem. · Modified context help messages to be clearer to the user. · Fixed ACL issue with dbsetup.sql script GIS · Show which plugin is selected · Map Display error in Windows

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