Open Source Software for the refugee detection avoids overtime – Germany radio

is the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees – as can be heard again and again – with the registry simply not budge. Responsible for this are also missing interfaces to the software of the Federal Police and the resulting double counting. IT professionals and Red Cross helpers in Mannheim have developed a detection system that, apart from the registry can also accompany the entire asylum procedure. Basis of the development is an open-source software, which is already successfully used in disaster relief.

double counting and double work should be a thing of the past in the asylum procedure. For a long time is precisely the problem: Mostly a refugee data are recorded five times separately, because they can not be exchanged properly between the authorities. Then make employees of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees since 2005 repeatedly point.

Meanwhile, it has been recognized in the Interior Ministry that the problem lies with the interfaces. The missing namely the document management system of the BAMF. In the new data exchange Improvement Act several million euros are intended, a technical solution but there is not described. The Mannheim are there with their solution already one step ahead, because it open interfaces are used. The system is based here an open software called Sahana, which was developed by volunteers in 2004 and maintained ever since. It has been successfully used already in many disaster relief operations, for example in Pakistan, the Philippines, Nepal and Japan. Sahana supports helper not only in the person registration – one of the most pressing concerns of offices in Germany -., But also provides a Notunterkunftsmanagement, an assistant management system, a scheduling tool and position Directories

Thanks to the open interfaces could the Federal Office for Migration with their systems and prevent refugees or the Federal Police a multiple detection of the master data of refugees and have direct access to already collected data. The open interfaces of Sahana provide here an approach, and have volunteer programmers also shown in Mannheim. First of all: you have used for adaptation only four days

Now you can use a computer system for a single recording device is not the same as a nationwide system for the registration of refugees.. Perhaps but could be extended for data exchange already introduced the BAMF document management system to the Sahana interfaces. That would be less of a technical than an organizational and political problem: the federal police, who contribute 16 federal states with their receiving sites, hundreds of immigration authorities in the cities, the BAMF and not least the Ministry of Interior as it were a bunch of principalities represent their particular interests a simple and centralized solution be in the way. Above all, the Ministry of the Interior also still prevail reservations about open source solutions.

The conversation you can simultaneously hear at least six months.