Open source software for disaster management

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 61-65

  Currion, Paul ^d   De Silva, Chamindra ^a,b   Van De Walle, Bartel ^c  

^a Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System   (United States)

^b Lanka Software Foundation   (Sri Lanka)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FREE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE (FOSS); HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS; HUMANITARIAN SECTORS;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 34147140478     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1226736.1226768     Document Type: Article

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