Maintain information about collection points(NGOs/Corporates).

[sudev]

Subject of the issue

Many NGOs and government/corporates are currently crowdsourcing items for relief across the country, but currently there is no single place for anyone to find the information about collection centers around them. It will good for us to maintain a list of collection centres information in the website, currently, we only have information for government collection points within Kerala.

Requirements.

1. Users should be able to view the nearest collection centre.
2. Users(collection center owners) should be able to update information about collection centres. \
3. Information about the collection centres should contain the following information.
   • Location
   • Kind of material accepted at the collection centre.
   • Start/end dates, working hours
   • POC
   • Name of NGO/Corporate

If this makes sense to be implemented at this point please comment.

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[prasadgujar]

1. We can also add option any wants to volunteer for that collection point.
2. Data Analysis to find where collection point required or any other to find a point where collection center required.

[anroopak]

Is anyone working on this? I can contribute.

[ssat335]

Hi all, untill the supply chains are back to normal, most of the flood victims should depend of relief supplies. Unfortunately, it has been brought to attention that some places/camps do not have enough supplies where others have excess. Generous people from all over the world are sending aids however the distribution isn't organised properly. I'm curious if we can work on this as well in here.

[nithinis]

I was thinking on the same lines as @ssat335. There is a surplus of resources at some relief centers and scarcity in others. Collection centers are also working on broad estimates. Something to track the supply and demand would be very useful, especially in the difficult days ahead.

I can contribute too.

[sudev]

This crowdsourced google map with all relevant information seems to be more useful than what we are trying to implement here.

@nithinis @ssat335 The inventory management tools are hard to implement and Sahana seems to have a good implementation. I think there has been some effort going on to deploy Sahana alongside keralarescue.in. Demo here. http://demo.sahanafoundation.org/eden/inv/inv_item

• Anyone has idea on how the google map is currently updated?
• If this is updated by volunteers, it will add some value to have a form to programmatically update google(or osm) map using a self-serve UI?

[nithinis]

@sudev tried to contact some of the numbers from the map markers last night. Couldn’t get anyone, but it was late night, so Will try again today morning.

Regarding sahana, their implementation is good. But I felt it too sophisticated for rapid response mode. I have been cooking this idea at the back of my mind for some time now. Will try to post some flow diagram in a few hours.

I believe it has to be a simplification of some kind of a ticketing system.

[nithinis]

@sudev

• To ensure data sanity:
  • requests should be tagged to registered camps or collection centers
  • items could come from a lookup table

Concerned about the load and concurrency though.