November 19, 2007

QuickBits November 2007

HumaniNet participated in a successful Simulation Exercise in Nepal from 1-8 October, with participants from Caritas and ADRA (as well as a couple of UN agencies) from different countries around the region.
The UN Dispatch has an article entitled “How PDAs are Saving Lives in Africa“. It isn’t nearly as dramatic as it sounds, since it’s about how PDAs are being used to carry out health surveys, but there are some lessons for humanitarian data collection in there.
APDIP and APCICT released an e-Primer on ICT for Disaster Management, which includes Sahana as a case study. It’s an interesting overview, but doesn’t have much depth (that’s why they call it a primer, I guess).
Mifan Careem has launched the unofficial Sahana blog at TalkSahana. This is a great idea, and it’s a multi-authored blog where we hope to encourage people working with Sahana to post their experiences. Any future posts on Sahana here will be cross-posted there!