Just had the thought that it might be useful to add email address and mobile phone number as reasonably unique identifiers. May not work for all countries, but...
... Logistics is an area that I would be interested in working on too. Just a note that for logistics to work, we would also have to implement operations, so...
... Agree, this sort of event can not be managed from the top down, it will have to be lead from the ground up. Unfortunately it is going to take a while for...
Hi Gavin, ... True. We might want to set the criteria and the threshold values(weights) to be configured dynamically. this should be configurable from the...
... A bit of misunderstanding - I was referring to a breakdown of legislative process whereby an IC (in this case appointed by the Mayor), can be empowered to...
Just came across this on Wired and thought I'd copy it here for any that are interested. Website is http://www.scipionus.com/ In relation to Sahana, it would...
Sanjiva I received final travel confirmations today - Will arrive in Colombo 1:15 am Sunday the 11th (local time), probably get through customs etc. by 2:00...
All, The Red Cross have established a Disaster Victim Registration web for Hurricane Katrina available at: http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/katrina/locate Don...
In the interests of tracking, I have started a list of online resources that are contributing to the Hurricane Katrina response. Please review the list, draw...
Unfortunately CREATE has had the problems that I identified earlier, particularly in terms of accessing NGOs to engage in the development process. CREATE is...
Hi Mark, Sanjiva informed me that you were looking to download the Sahana code. You can download it from sourceforge using CVS. You can find the instructions...
Mark, Brent- irrespective of whether you folks can use (parts of) Sahana for Houston, when you are done with this particular disaster, it would be great if you...
... This is very true, but I think that configuration will have to be carried out on-the-ground and on-the-fly, since response set-ups will vary so much in...
Just on advisory - there is already a chunk of logistics software out there in the humanitarian community - the two main efforts being: * Fritz Institute -...
On Incident Tracking (and making it easy), I've been wondering for a while whether its possible to use adapt blogging software (perhaps Livejournal?) to act as...
... Yes and no, I guess it depends on the level of preparedness planning that has taken place. The less planning, the more real-time configuration will be...
Agree. However most people in the world have neither an email address or a mobile phone, so it should just be one option amongst many. This is particularly...
I think there are two aspects to this. 1. Publishing information to others. I think a blog (my preference would be Wordpress <http://www.wordpress.org/> would...
Just another thought on Incident Tracking - I think we need to make a strong distinction between "Tracking Incidents" and "Incident Management", and determine...
Marketing (gotta love it)... I always found that free software was far more likely to be accepted by NPO's if marketed as: "In recognition of the great work...
... Nice simple page layout, but this could be made a bit faster and more accessible with a few changes to the HTML. Replacing the FONT codes with a style...
On Monday 05 September 2005 5:27 am, Paul Currion wrote: i feel now the focus of this thread is relevant to sahana-dev and humantatian-ict as well ,therefore...
... i fully agree with Don, we want to make Sahana a comprehensive solution as much possible. Sahaha would be like a portal for disaster management. therefore...
... yes gavin ,makes sense to me , specially with the country code the phone number should be unique. only problem is several users of one organization may...
Hi Ravindra, Nice to meet you! ... That is why I suggested a mobile phone, as usually those are unique to a specific person, as opposed to a landline. But you...
Thought I should add my details, I arrive at 0015 on Saturday, and depart at 0135 on the following Friday morning. I've got a couple days before to look around...
