= SahanaCamp @AIT Thailand =
== Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th December 2013 ==
'''Hosted by the ::''' [http://www.sdcc.ait.asia/ Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Development in the Context of Climate Change] (SDCC)
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     * Address : Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Development in the context of Climate Change, [http://www.ait.ac.th/ Asian Institute of Technology], Khlong Nung, Pathum Thani, Thailand

'''Objectives ::'''
* Become familiar with Sahana tools for preparedness, warning, and response
* Investigate the Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) for adopting the Sahana software
* Use the SWOT to identify an optimal set of Sahana modules along with the required functionality and a strategy for proposing a set of tools host at AIT for the users
* Formulate individual short, medium, and long -term actions to plan future Sahana related work through AIT

'''Hands-on Exercises Tutorials ::'''
|| '''Exercise''' || '''DM Cycle''' || '''WORD''' || '''PDF''' ||
|| 1. Community Resilience Mapping || Preparedness || [# download] || [# download] ||
|| 2. Vulnerability Mapping || Preparedness || [# download] || [# download] ||
|| 3. Alerting and Messaging Broker || Warning || [# download] || [# download] ||
|| 4. News Feeds || Response || [# download] || [# download] ||
|| 5. Incident Reporting || Response || [# download] || [# download] ||

== Factiliator ==
* [http://lirneasia.net/about/profiles/nuwan-waidyanatha/ Nuwan Waidyanatha]
== Schedule ==
==== DAY 01 - Monday 16th[[BR]] ====
|| '''Time''''''' || '''Action''''''' ||
|| 08:30 - 09:00 || Welcome and participant Introductions; [[BR]] Overview of SahanaCamp 2 days agenda ||  
|| 09:00 - 09:30 || Introduction to Sahana Software Foundation, [[BR]] the open source community, products, services, [[BR]] programs, deployments and lessons learned || 
|| 09:30 - 10:30 || Hands-on paired team preparedness exercise with [[BR]] Community Resilience Mapping Tool (CRMT) [[BR]] and/or Vulnerability mapping || 
|| 10:30 - 11:00 || Tea/Coffee Break || 
|| 11:00 - 12:00 || Group hands-on exercise - Develop regional or country [[BR]] near-realistic resilience maps; [[BR]] Use news-feeds to improve data on the maps || 
|| 12:00 - 13:30 || Lunch || 
|| 13:30 - 14:30 || SWOT analysis of CRMT and group presentations; [[BR]] write specific action items || 
|| 14:30  - 15:00 || Tea/Coffee break || 
|| 15:30 - 16:00 || Hands-on paired team warning exercise with [[BR]] Sahana Alerting & Messaging Broker (SAMBRO) || 
|| 16:00 - 17:00 || Group exercise - set up alerting profiles and templates in SAMBRO || 

==== DAY 02''' - Tuesday 17th ====
|| '''Time''''''' || '''Action''''''' || 
|| 08:30 - 09:00  || Introduction to the EDXL Common Alerting Protocol [[BR]] (CAP) standard, policies, & procedures || 
|| 09:00 - 09:45 || Group exercises with direct and cascade local [[BR]] and cross-border alerting || 
|| 09:45 - 10:30 || SWOT analysis of SAMBRO & CAP and group presentations; [[BR]] append specific action items || 
|| 10:30 - 11:00 || Tea/Coffee Break || 
|| 11:00 - 11:30 || Introduction to EDXL-SITREP (situational reporting) || 
|| 11:30 - 12:30 || Group exercises with field-observation (Assessments/News-feeds), [[BR]] Incident reporting, and deriving Response Resource || 
|| 12:30 - 13:30 || Lunch || 
|| 13:30 - 14:30 || SWOT analysis of Incident Reporting tools/methods and [[BR]] group presentations; append specific action items || 
|| 14:30  - 15:00 || Tea/Coffee break || 
|| 15:00 - 16:00 || Discuss strategies for integrating AIT models/technologies [[BR]] with Sahana software; i.e. what do you want out of Sahana & AIT || 
|| 16:00 - 16:30 || Discuss participant expectations of a SSF CoE @ AIT;|| 
|| 16:30 - 17:00 || closing remarks and evaluate the SahanaCamp@AIT-BKK ||

==== Exercises questionnaires ====
1. SWOT analysis (download instruction: [# PDF])
1. Individual action plans (download form: [# WORD] [# PDF])
1. Workshop evaluation (download form: [# WORD] [# PDF])

== Sponsors ==

[[Image(http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/attachment/wiki/Event/2013/AIT/index.jpeg)]]
Asian Institute of Technology Sustainable Development in the context of Climate Change

The AIT’s Sustainable Development in the context of Climate Change (SDCC) emphasizes the consolidation of research efforts and creation of a niche that will harness the Institute’s range of network, experience and expertise. The Institute has responded rapidly to the new challenges the region faces.

Disaster Risk Management is one of SDCC thematic area, lead by Dr. Manzul Azharika. This thematic area emphasises that effective disaster management hinges on reducing the vulnerability. Moreover, reducing disaster risk is also vital to climate change adaptation. The process of managing disaster risks entails understanding and identifying the risk factors and simplifying the complexities of disaster risk assessments.