https://www.openfoundry.org/ Fri, 22 Nov 2019 05:56:45 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 https://www.openfoundry.org/en/resourcecatalog/GIS/Geospatial-Open-Source-Project/Crisis-Management/ushahidi Ushahidi Engine is a free and open source platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or a timeline. Ushahidi’s goal is to create tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories.

Ushahidi, which means “testimony” in Swahili, was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008. Ushahidi’s roots are in the collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during a time of crisis. The website was used to map incidents of violence and peace efforts throughout the country based on reports submitted via the web and mobile phone. This initial deployment of Ushahidi had 45,000 users in Kenya, and was the catalyst for us realizing there was a need for a platform based on it, which could be use by others around the world.

License：GPL-3.0
The project description quoted above is licensed by OSGeo under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License。]]> webmaster Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:48:41 +0100 https://www.openfoundry.org/en/resourcecatalog/GIS/Geospatial-Open-Source-Project/Crisis-Management/ushahidi https://www.openfoundry.org/en/resourcecatalog/GIS/Geospatial-Open-Source-Project/Crisis-Management/sahana-eden Sahana Eden is a Family of Applications to Help You Help Others. It provides web based collaboration tools that addresses the common coordination problems faced during a disaster including finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, and tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.

Solutions are available for Disaster Management, Emergency Management, Development, Humanitarian and Environmental sectors. Free and Open Source means that it is easily Customisable and Extensible. Sahana Eden is also able to integrate with other solutions and can provide a management/ticketing interface around crowd-sourced data - such as that collected in the Ushahidi incident mapping application.

The Sahana project was initiated by volunteers in the Sri Lankan FOSS development community to help their fellow countrymen and countrywomen affected during the 2004 Asian Tsunami in December 2004. The system was officially used by the Government of Sri Lanka and the system was released as Free and Open Source software. Subsequently a re-write as a generic disaster management tools was incubated with the sponsorship of the Swedish International Development Agency, IBM, the US National Science Foundation and it has been used by dozens of Governments and NGOs since then.

License：MIT
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