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Welcome to the Wiki for Humanitarian-ICT and Humanitarian-FOSS

The Humanitarian ICT community consists of a global group of emergency management experts, humanitarian consultants, interested members from the NGO community and developers that strive to build applications to address the ICT needs of humanitarian problems. Currently they provide leadership on the Humanitarian-FOSS concept and also on the domain requirements for the Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System. As of writing this article the members in this community amount to about 170+ registered people from around the world from countries such as Australia, Sri Lanka, UK, US, Germany, Thailand, Netherlands and New Zealand.

You can find out more of the background of the Humanitarian-FOSS concept and the Humanitarian-ICT community in the Wikipedia here.

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Joining the Humanitarian-ICT Community

The community is spread over various continents and timezones and thus find it best to operate over a mailing list. If you are interested in this domain we welcome you to join the mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/humanitarian-ict/.

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Humanitarian-ICT Projects

The following is a catalog of existing Humanitarian Response Projects.

  • P2pAid Person to person Aid, launched in 2006, is an online tool that allows users to create a profile and log a request for aid, or supply aid or intermediation. The site offers various functionalities including blog creation and status reports. It is Open Source.
  • iCare is a system that directly matches donated goods or services to the specific items that survivors have asked for.
  • NGO-in-a-box offers a set of peer reviewed and selected Free and Open Source software (F/OSS), tailored to the needs of NGO's.
  • OpenMRS is a free and open-source (FOSS) medical record system for developing countries. It is jointly led by the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., a leader in medical informatics, and Partners in Health, a Boston-based philanthropic organization focused on health care services and advocacy, and is currently deployed in several African countries.

Disclaimer: This is still work in progress and there are many more systems to catalog.

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Guidelines, Policies & Standards

The links below provide a set of guidelines, standards and policies in designing Humanitarian or Emergency Management FOSS projects as recommended by the the Humanitarian FOSS group.

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Humanitarian User Groups (HUGs)

A the concept of a Humanitarian User Group or HUG for short was first introduced in the Humanitarian-ICT mailing lists as a group similar to a Linux User Group, but with a focus on voluntary and community based education, support and deployment ICT in support of a humanitarian needs in a location and organization. As with LUGs, A HUG (Humanitarian User Group) will often be co-located in a specific location (e.g Philippines HUG) or a organization (e.g. Red Cross HUG) and will mostly consist of members who are part of that nation/locale or organization respectively.

Especially for Free and Open Source Software such as Sahana depends mostly on the community for support, it is essential that such groups are established to bridge the gap between the organizational/national requirements and the available ICT software.

We provide a directory of Humanitarian User Groups on this WIKI so that you can get in touch with the respective user group closest to you and work together in providing solutions and support for a disaster. Regardless please do join the main Humanitarian-ICT Mailgroup and introduce yourself. We welcome you input and contribution.

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Background Material

The following material may help you come up to speed with the various domain and technological concepts and jargons, used in the collateral on this site:

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Notes

  • Here are some Notes Pages that will contain links to a few notes, until the wiki forms a bit more structure.
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