[Sahana_proj] Guest Lecture Thursday December 11th 7:30pm

[de Lanerolle, Trishan R.]

Hi Everyone,

 

Mark your calendars we will have a guest lecture next Thursday (December
11th) at 7:30 pm by Chamindra De Silva, the Sahana project director,
titled "Open Source Software for Disaster Management" in Rittenberg
Lounge(Mather Hall 2nd Floor). (Attached poster) 

 

Hope you will take the opportunity to attend the lecture. It's also a
good opportunity to take a short break between finals. Light
refreshments will be provided after the lecture.

 

Regards, 

Trishan

 

Title: Open Source Software for Disaster Management

Time: 7:30pm, December 11th 2008

Location: Rittenberg Lounge in Mather Hall, Trinity College, Hartford CT

 

Abstract: Disasters by definition are devastating events that overwhelm
the affected society's capacity to respond and mitigate. In this chaotic
environment new alliances, groupings, collaboration and trust needs to
be quickly formed between government organizations, civil society,
foreign aid groups and even spontaneous volunteers to effectively muster
their energies into a holistic response effort. Information Technology
can play a valuable coordination role for situation awareness to enable
responders to act effectively. In particular Open Source software has
been found to be a good fit for the dynamic "bazzar" like environment of
a disaster and a good match to the humanitarian codes of conduct.

 

 

 

 

 

Trishan de Lanerolle
Project Director

Trinity- Conn College- Wesleyan CPATH Project 
Computer Science, Trinity College, Hartford CT.
(860) 297 5313

http://www.hfoss.org 

 

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