Following the Sahana activities in Myanmar, the DUMBO(Digital Ubiquitous Mobile Broadband OLSR)-Sahana project has taken wings and is seeing a lot of success. The links below provide interesting insight into the wonderful work taking place:
DUMBO-Sahana in Myanmar
Nargis Action Group, Myanmar
Interlab Training Photos

Last year, Ravindra and I had the honor of presenting Sahana at the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security of Thailand, in Bangkok, Thailand. We noticed at the event that there were already a couple of University students from Thailand working on Sahana, which is always an encouragement, and in line with the overall goal of creating Sahana communities globally. I just came across a couple of articles of the event, which I link to here (some in Thai..)
Sahana Disaster Management System (thai)
Thailand’s Ministry of Social Development and Human Security has intention to use Sahana
IOSN Article

And another article on Sahana, this time from the recent Sichuan earthquake deployment - unfortunately for those of us with poor language skills, only available in Mandarin! Thanks to Qihao Miao from the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai, who wrote the article and hopefully will continue to be involved with Sahana.

Erm… if anybody out there speaks Mandarin, a translation would be lovely!

Sahana makes a brief appearance in BusinessWeek, courtesy of Janet Ginsburg. The article is a wider discussion of the role of disaster response in innovation (and vice versa), with a focus on the Strong Angel III exercise a while back. The emphasis on Sahana as an innovative approach (FOSS), and not just an innovative platform is good to see!

An interesting article I came across recently describes the use of Internet traffic counters to track “web hits” in order to determine earthquake locations, according to NewScientistTech. Thus based on the surge in ‘Hits’ for a certain geographic area per unit time, it can be determined to some extent that something has taken place in the region - in this case, an earthquake. The study is carried out based on usage statistics of European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre. Again, social networking to the rescue…