Use:Pandemic

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Requirements for customizing Sahana for Pandemics

The following is a requirements page for customizing Sahana for pandemics, starting with pre-customizations for the upcoming bird-flu.

Here is the orginal mail thread that started this scenario http://groups.yahoo.com/group/humanitarian-ict/message/749

Background of Scenario

Gavs's comments:

A few relevant points to raise about pandemics are: -

1.1 Little to no physical damage on environment/infrastructure - most communications infrastructure should be working (although bandwidth will be reduced from people working from home etc).

1.2 Measures used to manage pandemics are well suited to use of ICT - quarantine, isolation, social distancing. It will be difficult for people to co-ordinate in person - and ICT is being looked to as a key technology to assist because many people will be forced to stay a home.

1.3 Potential to impact the entire planet in a short period of time, and little opportunity for support from NGO's etc because of international, and potentially even country-internal travel restrictions. The scale of a global pandemic is far and away larger than nearly all types of disasters.

System Customization requirements

It has struck me that we potentially have a short-to-medium term window to develop some simple modules that build on the modules already developed - in particular the org, people and victim, and that would be very useful _should_ Avian Influenza mutate to a human- to-human influenza and start spreading.

1. We work to refine the Person, Organisations and Victim modules ASAP to ensure we have base functionality well tested and working. I would like to see the CMS and RMS put on hold temporarily to allow development of other modules that could be used during a pandemic.

2. We identify some key modules that could benefit response to a pandemic, but also fit in the longer term with generic Sahana use, and make development of these a priority. Many of these we've discussed already.