This group exists to gather togeather representatives from various projects and groups that use ICT (infomation and communication technology) for to help in managing relief, recovery and rehabilitation efforts and complement and support each other in improving and building systems that focuses on the quick benefits to the end victim.
The initial theme of discussing will be the use of FOSS (Free and Open Source ) software in building such systems.
Dear Computing Educator, We invite you to submit a short position statement (1-2 pages) or poster abstract (up to 2 pages) to the 2nd annual HFOSS Symposium
I don't believe this has hit the maindev or humanitarian-ict lists yet. I'm honored to be asked to serve as the Sahana Software Foundation's first President.
According to media reports, the Prime Minister announced the creation of an Office of the Deployable Civilian Capability (DCC) within AusAid, at at the East
Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) Symposium 2010 "Growing the Humanitarian FOSS Community" http://www.hfoss.org/hfoss2010/ March 10, 2010,
Indeed. This is the Hackathon concept that came out of Crisis Camp DC in June. Primary sponsors are Google, Microsoft and Yahoo (the big three). It's very