YaNuCa in the FSF/UNESCO Free Software Directory
YaNuCa is now listed in the Free Software Directory of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
I’m glad to see that.
Btw., Dr. Zech – you’re greatly welcome to join the YaNuCa mailing list! I’m really curious about your suggestions for the next release.
Merry Christmas
After 11 years I’m now going to leave the Heidelberg region and with this, closing an exciting chapter of my life, that has been full of hard work, profound experiences and intense encounters, but also of aberration and bitter disappointment. However, I do not regret having been here at all, but finally I feel myself now farther away from home than ever before.
I knew this already for years and actually never wanted to stay for such a long time, hence I’m not really going away now – I’m just moving on, looking forward to what comes next.
Thank you all for your good wishes!
I wish you all a merry christmas, a warm place to rest, a chance to regain joy of living, confidence and faith in love, and a few tranquil moments to listen deep into the silence and find some peace.
While moving, I’ll be occasionally unavailable during the next four weeks.
Sahana @ ICN Congress 2009
My abstract on
“Implementation of Health Management Features into the Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System”
has been accepted for a presentation at the 24th Quadrennial Congress of the International Council of
Nurses (ICN) in Durban/South Africa, June 27th to July 4th, 2009.
The International Council of Nurses is a federation of national nurses’ associations (NNAs), representing millions of nurses in more than 128 countries – and it is the world’s widest reaching international organisation for health professionals.
Background
Sahana is a collection of web based disaster management software applications that provides solutions to large-scale humanitarian problems with regard to coordination and collaboration of field workers and relief organizations in a disaster situation and its aftermath. The Sahana project has been initiated in Sri Lanka during the 2004 Tsunami disaster, and since then it was successfully deployed in several disaster situations around the world, lately in the China Earthquake Disaster of May, 2008.Sahana is a free and open source software project, thus it is available free of charge and without narrowing copyright strings, and can easily be customized to the particular situation.
Presentation objectives
Sahana is a valuable technology in humanitarian action, and an excellent platform for health management in large-scale disaster situations as well.Together with other contributors, I have taken responsibility to implement basic health management features to the Sahana system, addressing the following issues:
- Prioritizing of health care services by means of information on the disaster-affected population, demographic and health data as well as information on local health care resources
- Support situation awareness by monitoring of Mortality Rates (CMR,U5MR) and scheduled health status reports
- Coordination and monitoring of measures for prevention, surveillance and control of communicable diseases
- Coordination and monitoring of measures to enable access on safe water and food, sanitation and basic health services
In the context of free software development, I want to encourage nurses and nurses’ organizations worldwide to contribute their knowledge to the further development of this software
Venue data:
Session C.645 Pandemics/Disasters
02/07/2009, 14:30-15:50 (Presentation start at 15:30)
Hall 2D
International Convention Centre
45 Ordnance Road, Durban/South Africa
www.icc.co.za
More information about the congress can be found at:
