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.
Sahana has been selected as a finalist in the SourceForge 2009 Community Choice Awards in the Best Project for Government section. Development of Sahana is supported by Lanka Software Foundation in Sri Lanka.
It has been deployed in many places and situations, including Sri Lanka (tsunami 2005), Pakistan (quake 2005), Philippines (mudslide 2006), Indonesia (quake 2006), and New York City (pre-deployed for coastal storm plan 2007-08).
