SahanaCamp @AIT Thailand

Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th December 2013

Hosted by the :: ​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, ​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

Exercises Tutorials

Exercise	DM Cycle
1. Community Resilience Mapping	Preparedness
2. Vulnerability Mapping	Preparedness
3. Alerting and Messaging Broker	Warning
4. News Feeds	Response
5. Incident Reporting	Response

About the Tools

1) Community Resilience Mapping is an activity that allows for the layering of GIS data by Coalitions of Organizations. The tool was first introduced to the City of Los Angeles to improve the resilience of their communities. The project is sponsored by Los Angeles County Public Health. ​DEMO

2) Vulnerability assessments is an activity is a system for Red Cross National Societies. This new Vulnerability Mapping module which is under development will allow collection & displaying of data on the resilience of communities. It aggregates different indicators together to provide an overall rating to hopefully make it easier to use. ​DEMO

3) News feeds to improve decision making is a site for the national Disaster Management Department of Timor-Leste to facilitate information sharing between different stakeholders. It provides a simplified interface to be easy to use. ​DEMO

4) Alerting and Messaging with CAP is done with the Sahana Common Alerting Protocol-enabled Messaging Broker (SAMBRO). It is designed to manage the publishing and subscribing of situation-awareness and alert messages. The single entry of standardized message can be delivered through various technologies such as SMS, Email, RSS, HTML, Twitter, Interactive Voice, Satellite broadcast so on and so forth ​DEMO

5) Incident reporting allows a quick overview of where there are issues. Reports can come in just from trained staff or else from the wider public ('Crowd Sourcing'). These can be entered via the Web or come in via SMS or Email. ​DEMO

Factiliator

​Nuwan Waidyanatha

Schedule

DAY 01 - Monday 16th

Time	Action
08:30 - 09:00	Welcome and participant Introductions; Overview of SahanaCamp 2 day agenda
09:00 - 09:30	Introduction to Sahana Software Foundation, the open source community, products, services, programs, deployments and lessons learned
09:30 - 10:30	Team hands-on preparedness exercise with Community Resilience Mapping Tool (CRMT) and/or Vulnerability mapping
10:30 - 11:00	Tea/Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00	Team hands-on exercise - Develop regional or country near-realistic resilience maps; How to 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; write specific action items
14:30 - 15:00	Tea/Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00	Hands-on paired team warning exercise with 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 (CAP) standard, policies, & procedures
09:00 - 09:45	Group exercises with direct and cascade local and cross-border alerting
09:45 - 10:30	SWOT analysis of SAMBRO & CAP and group presentations; 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), Incident reporting, and deriving Response Resource
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch
13:30 - 14:30	SWOT analysis of Incident Reporting tools/methods and group presentations; append specific action items
14:30 - 15:00	Tea/Coffee break
15:00 - 16:00	Discuss strategies for integrating AIT models/technologies 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-THAILAND

Evaluation

PDF files for download:

1. SWOT analysis instruction
2. Individual action plan form
3. SahanaCamp evaluation form)

Participants

1. ​Sri Lanka Disaster Management Center
2. ​Sri Lanka Survey Department
3. ​Myanmar Department of Meteorology and Hydrology
4. ​Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology
5. ​National Mapping and Resource Information Authority
6. ​Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration
7. ​Mines and Geosciences Bureau
8. ​Bangladesh Space Research and Remote Sensing Organization
9. ​Raydant International

Sponsors

​''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.

​''Spot On Solutions''

Spot On offers specialized Information Communication Technology (ICT) products and services for "risk knowledge mobilization". We realize that today's world requires organizations to be at the top of their game! Real-Time business intelligence and Communications are vital aspects in staying ahead. Spot-On's end-to-end automation from data gather, statistical analyses, dissemination, and reporting technologies are designed to, relatively, minimize your costs and maximize your benefits. Spot On Solution'sadvances in being recognized as a market leader, in the Asia Pacific Region, offering specialized Information Communication Technology (ICT) products and services for "risk knowledge mobilization". We provide public and closed user group alerting solutions for Governments, Private Entities, and Non-Governmental Organizations. Our life-saving solutions are Common Alerting Protocol-enabled for consistent and complete messaging. The comprehensive solutions are designed for multi-agency emergency coordination and location-based risk information dissemination over a multitude of technologies.