EMSystems

Sahana Disaster Management System

• Primary: Help alleviate human suffering and help save lives through the efficient use of IT during a disaster
• Bring together a diverse set of actors from Government, Emergency Management, NGOs, INGOs, spontaneous volunteers and victims themselves in responding effectively to a disaster
• Empower the victims, responders, volunteer to better enable them to help themselves and others
• Protect victim data and reduce the opportunity for data abuse
• Provide a Free and Open Source solution end-to-end available to everyone

Functionality:

• Free and Open Source Software
• Who is doing What Where (Organization Registry)
• Tracing (Missing People Registry)
• Inventory Management
• Aid Distribution
• Situation Mapping / GIS enabled
• Shelter tracking
• Volunteer / Responder Management
• Displaced Family Tracking (Disaster Victim Registry)

• Tsunami - Sri Lanka 2005
• AsianQuake - Pakistan 2005
• Southern Leyte Mudslide Disaster - Philippines 2006
• Terre des Hommes - Sri Lanka 2006
• New York City - United States 2007
• Shizuan Province Earthquake - China 2008

UN OCHA Who is Doing What Where

Information Management System in Disaster Preparedness & Response Phases

• presents an overview of the humanitarian response
• helps in identifying gaps and duplications in the response programs
• assists with monitoring and evaluation, and reporting on the crisis (e.g. as a reference for mid-term review reporting on the CAP)
• provides a more detailed picture of the humanitarian response within, for example, a specific sector, area etc. This facilitates more detailed co-ordination.
• detailed information on the crisis response activities. This can be useful for subsequent reference, lessons learned, academic studies etc.

• An integrated registry of Organizations, Contacts and Sectoral activity by geography
• Flexible application architecture that adopts to the scale of response operations and the availability of data
• Synchronization and consolidation of records across installations and up the deployment hierarchy

UN Reliefweb

• Map center
• Appeals and Funding - Funding appeals for complex emergencies and natural disasters and financial tracking of responses to funding requirements
• Policies and Issues - On-line library of reference materials covering humanitarian policies and issues of global nature
• Professional Resources - Information of practical use for relief professionals, including a sectoral or thematic listing of "communities of practice," listings of job opportunities and training opportunities, and an information providers' directory.
• Web feed service to deliver customized content to partners' web sites

LA RED/ UNDP-GRIP DesInventar

DesInventar is typically used during the Humanitarian, Early Recovery and Reconstruction phases, although it is also conceived to be used as a historical disaster damage/loss information system useful in Risk Assessments and in general as a tool in Risk Reduction processes.

• DesInventar provides simple and effective tools for Disaster Damage and Needs Assesments survey data collection
• Provides wide accessibility, protection and built-in analysis tools, including statistical, tabular, graphical and spatial analysis tools.
• It allows the creation of multi-hazard, multiple-disaster, historically dissagregated disaster information databases for use in Risk Assessments and Risk Reduction, essential also in Recovery and Reconstruction phases for 'building back better'.

• Pre-defined, built-in disaster datacard with basic disaster effects
• Simple database extensibility allowing for the configuration of generic surveys required to collect damage/loss/needs assessments in post-disaster situations
• Simple interface with GIS systems at two levels, as internal geographic files (Shapefiles) or interfacing with WMS (Web Mapping Service) enabled systems. DesInventar itself exposes also a WMS.
• Full integration with Google maps and Google Earth tools for spatial data exchange.
• Full data export/import functions using Excel and XML formats
• Full support for major database platforms (Postgres, Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Access)

• Hurricane Mitch (Honduras and Nicaragua)
• Armenia (Colombia) Earthquake
• El Niño North Peru floods
• South Peru Earthquakes
• Tsunami Event (Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia)
• East Timor uprising (social conflict disaster)
• Myanmar Nargis Cyclone
• these among many others....

• Main site for Version 7, source download, databases for several Events and Historical databases
• Latin American project

Federal Emergency Management Information System

• resource tracking
• task lists
• contact lists
• event logs
• status boards
• hazard modeling
• evacuation modeling

UN GDACS Virtual OSOCC

The Virtual OSOCC aims at sharing information among international first responders in the first 72h of sudden onset disasters. Typically, this includes information on the situation, impact (casualties and damage), visa arrangements and travel restrictions, lists of teams and deployment status and rapid satellite based damage maps.

• Disaster coordination - the main purpose of the Virtual OSOCC is to facilitate decision-making for international response to major disasters though real-time information exchange by all actors of the international disaster response community.
• E-mail and sms alerts - All Virtual OSOCC users have the opportunity to create e-mail and sms messages that are sent automatically to subscribers to inform about critical situation updates during disaster response operations.
• Mobilisation - through the Virtual OSOCC the United Nations Assessment and Coordination Team (UNDAC) can be mobilised effectively through on-line workflow procedures including sms and e-mail.
• Training and meetings - the Virtual OSOCC facilitates management of UNDAC, INSARAG and UN-CMCoord training, meetings and workshops through e-mail notification, on-line participant registration and discussion of background material.
• Discussion forum - the Virtual OSOCC provides its users with a discussion forum for any area of interest, including information exchange on best practice and lessons-learned after disaster response operations.
• Photo library - the Virtual OSOCC includes a photo library where users can share disaster and other related photos as documentation or presentation material or souvenir of a joint mission.

• Disaster alerts by SMS, email or fax
• Situation overview
• List and status of emergency teams, including UNDAC
• Possibility to request satellite based maps
• Tightly integrated with ReliefWeb

• Over 7000 users; has been deployed in all major disasters since 2001

Origen Emergency Management System

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• Secure logon that provides access permissions and audit control
• User defined controls for incident categories, personnel, and entities
• Message entry and maintenance
• Message links and dependencies
• Message management and tracking
• Task entry, tracking and management
• Response entry and management
• Emergency procedures library
• Letter and mail merge facilities to MS Office
• Full audit and tracking reports to screen or printer
• Stand alone PC and Network support with data synchronisation

(FEMA) National Shelter System

• Traditional shelters
• Household Pet/Service Animal shelters
• Medical Special Needs
• Kitchens
• Points of Distribution (PODs)
• Food warehouses
• Warming, cooling, and Respite centers
• Embarkation, Debarkation, and Reception processing sites
• GIS mapping function to see in real time, shelter locations, critical infrastructure, flood plains, fault lines, and numerous other geospatial elements

SUMA

• SUMA Central: used by authorities managing a disaster or emergency
• SUMA Field Unit: used at the points of entry or reception sites, such as borders, water or river ports, and large storage centers (centers where supplies arrive during emergencies, such as airports, collection stands, etc.
• Stock Management: registers the arrival and the delivery of supplies at the storage centers or warehouses

EC SPECIFIC TARGETED RESEARCH OR INNOVATION PROJECT (STREP) FP6-2005-IST-5-034749

The WORKPAD project will focus in providing a software and communication infrastructure supporting operators during an emergency. The objective of the WORKPAD project is to investigate how to create communities of Public Safety Systems (PSSs), and how to enable mobile teams to exploit such back-end PSSs through the interplay of MANET technologies, process management and geo-collaboration. In order to support such a complex scenario, from the provision of data & knowledge & content to front-end teams to their process executions, different research issues will be addressed:

• A 2-level peer-to-peer architecture, including both the back-end peers and the front-end teams.
• Novel techniques for P2P data & knowledge & content integration, to be exploited on the back-end. P2P information integration systems don't rely on a single global view (ontology), but use mappings, dynamically established between peers, to collect and merge data from the various sources when answering user queries.
• Adaptive process management, by exploting context-awareness and process mining, in order to manage coordination of team members.
• Geo-referenced information managment.
• Solutions around emergency communications, wireless communications and robust links (i.e., connecting front-end and back-end networks), e.g., satellite-based, TETRA-based, etc., as they are key elements in helping emergency services respond in extreme situations.
• Solutions for allowing devices of a team to communicate without relying on any infrastructure (which in general is not available after disasters), through the use of the MANETs, and to share reliable communication channels in order to coordinate among different teams.

• Back-End WS-Based P2P Information Integration Middleware (Spec. and Implementation)
• Front-End Mobile Ad-hoc Network
• Front-End / Back-End reliable link

Protezione Civile Regione Calabria - Italy

• Università degli Studi di Roma LA SAPIENZA Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica “Antonio Ruberti” (Coordinator, Italy)
• Università degli Studi di Roma TOR VERGATA Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemi e Produzione (Italy)
• IBM Center for Advanced Studies of Rome
• Salzburg Research Advanced Networking Center (ANC) & Mobile and Web-based Informations Systems Group (MOWI)
• TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN Institute für Informationssysteme
• APIF MOVIQUITY S.A. R&D Department
• SOFTWARE 602 A.S. Research SOFTWARE 602
• Regione Calabria Settore Protezione Civile

ESS Crisis Management

• Spatial Information: tightly integrated with Microsoft's Virtual Earth™ - online mapping with oblique (bird's eye), satellite and aerial imagery, works with ESRI's ArcInfo™ and other Geographic Information Systems, does real time asset tracking
• Emergency Message Center: facilitates and tracks communications during both routine and crisis operations by automatically date stamping daily message traffic, and entering data into an incident-based operations log
• Automated Notifications: ESS Alert™ component sends urgent notifications regarding a new incident to team members via desktop, laptop or a Windows-enabled Pocket PC
• Task Tracking: tracks organizational workflow from tasking to close-out
• Briefings and Audits: captures and organizes detailed information about the operations and quickly, accurately present them to others during or after the event
• Assessment and Recovery: simplifies collection of information from initial surveys

Ushahidi CrowdSourcing Crisis Information System

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Risepak

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DMIS Disaster Management Information System

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e-Sponder (MS Sharepoint based)

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WebEOC

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NC4's eTeam

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ESS Essential Emergency

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CMS Crisis Commander

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EmerGeo

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Emergency Manager Pro

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Alerttech OpsCenter

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Dynamic COMPAS

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Microsoft Groove

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ORCHESTRA

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ARCE++

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SIGAME

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