Sahana Camp 2014 - Focus on ICT

Sahana Camp 2014 was organised as a part of the Indian Ocean Tsunami 10th Anniversary (IOTX) Convention which commemorated the relief work by various parties following the devastating December 2004 tsunami.

The IOTX events were designed to cut across several disciplines such as disaster communication system engineering, policy and research.

They focused on how Information Communication Technology can strengthen emergency preparedness and response and improve the resilience of communities, business continuity and disaster recovery of organisations.

Sahana Camp is a participatory workshop involving the use and understanding of the Sahana Disaster Management Information System and brought together people and organisations working in Information Communication Technology for Disaster Management.

The event provided an opportunity for Chief Technical Officers and Chief Information Officers of Government, Non-Governmental Organisations and private sector industries to aquaint with the real-world Sahana disaster management solutions, receive hands-on experience using Sahana software tools with managing information and analysing data for decision support, and assess how Sahana could be used in their organisations.

The Sahana Disaster Management Software is sentimental to IOTX. The Sahana Community and the community-developed Sahana Software evolved from a compassionate effort of the Sri Lankan Free and Open Source Software community. Since then, Sahana Software has served over two dozen major disasters around the globe.