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.
Geochat emerged from a simple concept - can I send an SMS message and see it on a map?
From there the concept has evolved, and geochat has become a project to build a collaboration platform for the lowest common denominator communication tools, considering as highest priorities the needs of
... [More] workers of humantiarian aid, international health and disaster response.
The main drivers for the project are the feedback of the InSTEDD programs in South East Asia, excercises such as GoldenShadow?, and a growing community of humanitarian and health workers who spend their days in technologically austere environments. We invite anyone from any line of work to use and contribute user experience, technical, and any other kind of feedback. [Less]
Sigmah is open source software for the shared management of international aid projects. The software is simple, flexible and intuitive and allows each organisation to organize its own work methods, and thereby improve the quality of its programmes.
Sigmah is the result of a participatory project
... [More] facilitated by a group of organisations from the sector. Based on the expertise of Groupe URD and its professional and voluntary partners, they have developed the software so that it corresponds to what aid organizations say they need and have placed it in the public realm so that it is available to all. [Less]
The Dynamic COMPAS is an electronic system for managing the quality of humanitarian projects, based on the principles of Project Cycle Management and Quality Assurance.
The Dynamic COMPAS helps organisations to:
• Strengthen transparency in decision-making thus promoting personal and collective
... [More] accountability
• Improve team communication by establishing a common language to be used throughout an organisation and across all sectors
• Learn from past experience by allowing users to access information from other projects
• Make decisions using a single analytical framework – the COMPAS Board – which gives a systemic view of the project
• Improve monitoring and evaluation processes by means of quality indicators
• Streamline reporting processes [Less]
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