Hi All, Got dozens of emails/tweets about why this or that platform was not included in the report. We had 80 pages of text, editors cut down to 60. Obviously ...
Consider a little more feedback and coverage given... <http://www.facebook.com/unitednationsfoundation> Perhaps some people on Facebook could join the group...
Mark and Gavin - The UN article is focusing on social networking style solutions. I think that it will be really streeeeeeetching it to make the claim that...
Louiqa Raschid
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Dec 13, 2009 10:22 pm
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The UN report referenced by BBC was recently co-authored by Crisis Mapping guru Patrick Meier... I also was disappointed that Sahana was not mentioned... and...
I've just provided some friendly feedback to the BBC :) Also, I'm just download the report this article refers to, others here may be interested. NEW...
FYI New Technology in Emergencies and Conflicts: Role of Information and Social Networks <http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/new-tech-un-foundation/> ...
I'm interested in the use of ICT in the charity and development sector, particularly in Australia and thought members of this group may be able to help. For...
Gerry
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Dec 10, 2009 5:55 am
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FYI: For those who would like to share knowledge at ISCRAM, but prefer to do so in something other than a research paper. This is especially for practitioners....
Hayesha, do keep us posted on the outcomes. I am keen to see the second part of the HCR (data entry) module completed soon so we can start using that as well....
Hi all, I had a discussion with Talking Papers google group ( talkingpapers@googlegroups.com) on this during the past week and they are interested in the work...
Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) Symposium 2010 "Growing the Humanitarian FOSS Community" http://www.hfoss.org/hfoss2010/ March 10, 2010,...
Hi All, Thought I would provide an update on the Emergency Information Interop Framework Incubator Group (XG) that we initiated at W3C. As an incubator group,...
ISCRAM2010: Defining Crisis Management 3.0 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management May 2-5, 2010, Crowne Plaza...
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...
This looks like it would be a great event for folks interested in Humanitarian-ICT. I think it would be great if we could get some Sahana folks out there. ...
Good news Gav and I hope your projections prove correct - What's important for Sahana (and like products) is for design considerations to be based on the same...
Dear all, I am most happy to distribute to you the Call for Papers for ISCRAM2010 - with tracks on Humanitarian Challenges, Standardization and Ontologies, and...
Apologies to all for not receiving directly my email - I accidentally replied just to Don instead of the list... ... I don't think it would require a big...
Good point about business-as-usual systems – often a valuable asset - At one fairly large incident I was able to appoint the local Council to manage the IMT...
What’s interesting about this particular call for tender is what’s not incorporated in the requirements spec ... When read in full it would appear these...
There are still existing capabilities that are quite critical that are missing from Sahana to be able to successfully compete in this tender. Messaging is a...
Sahana is not designed for an EOC so probably no, not in it's current form - however the requirements spec seems loosely designed around ICS and possibly even...
Hi Tom, Thanks for your excellent post. Very thoughtful. Strongly agree that low-power machines make much more sense. I met Peter Darlington, the IT manager...