Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.
There was a pressing need to translate this application into Burmese post Cyclone Nargis to assist in humanitarian intervention efforts and this was done via a volunteer base and in record time too.
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