Software Sahana helps refugee registration – detektor.fm

Data Acquisition stagnant

Only very slowly to the asylum authorities come up with the collection of data sets and applications ahead. The problem: the organization is decentralized. For each refugee separate documents at different collection points exist at the same time. These authorities are often unable to communicate with each other fast enough, paralyzes the processing.

The person responsible must usually put and continue to send the documents cumbersome new. That’s twice the work that the authorities could be saved and thus a lot of time and effort. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees is in the processing of asylum applications already behind. Some asylum seekers have average of eight months to wait until they can make an application

Possible solution:.? Open source software

The German Red Cross in Mannheim has developed further so that it can be used in the local refugee reception office along with volunteer IT professionals the open source software Sahana. Actually Sahana has been developed in 2004 for the Kastraophenhilfe. It offers a register of shelters and persons can access the helper of all.

The great advantage of Sahana is the open source principle. The program is free and available to all workers. The interfaces are open in Sahana, so can be used on existing data. This not only saves duplication of effort, but can also be adapted to the individual needs on site.

Using filter functions, we can see what the status of the asylum procedure process a refugee is. So we can prevent someone one is only a month here, faster drankommt when someone of Three months waiting for the most part. – Michael Paetrow, German Red Cross Mannheim

About the data acquisition of refugees and the open-source software Sahana has detektor.fm presenter Thibaud Schremser with Michael Paetrow

speaking. I maintain that the software we need in Mannheim with the refugee card. If this is a unified solution, I am afraid that this will not correspond to one hundred percent of our needs. Michael Paetrow operates the German Red Cross in Mannheim with the software Sahana

Editorial:. Zülal Yildirim