Pakistan

The Sahana Software Foundation have a site up to support the Floods Response in Pakistan:

• ​http://pakistan.sahanafoundation.org

Although there are a number information management tools providing resources on Pakistan, Sahana is open source software project which specialise in providing open data and is supported by a global community of volunteers. This means:

• Instead of just providing narrative document which need to be manually searched for the required data, it can provide the raw data, in various formats to help the relief efforts and longer term recovery.
• Sahana uses a Rapid Application Development framework, which means that new features can quickly developed in response to changing requirements on-the-ground.

How Sahana Can Help You

• ​View a Map with information of the affected areas
• Review ​Reported Incidents
• ​Find Shelters of Displaced People
• ​Request Relief
• Lists of ​Inventory Stores
• A shared library of ​Documents and Images with meta-data extracted from it
• And more...
• Let us (​sahana-eden@googlegroups.com) know if there is other features you need. We have volunteers working around the globe and around the clock to improveme Sahana for you.
• User Guide

How You Can Help Sahana

• Help with Data Entry to compile information from various sources
• Write Code to contribute to Sahana (The software uses Python, JS, HTML and CSS)
• Help to create better documentation and videos to support the users. Email your desired username to ​michael@sahanafoundation.org to get editing privileges.
• Spread the word!
• This is a project of the Non-Profit Sahana Software Foundation. You can ​Donate Here to help support these efforts.

Contact Us

• For coordination and user support: ​sahana-pakistan-2010@googlegroups.com
• For technical discusions about the software and support with developing code: ​sahana-eden@googlegroups.com
• You can also join the Sahana Team chat: Chat (IRC freenode.net #sahana-eden)

Related sites

• ​Crisis Commons
• ​OpenStreetMap