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<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px 1em 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6em">First, Indonesia’s President Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono praised InaSAFE (Indonesia Scenario Assessment for Emergencies), as being <a href="http://www.aifdr.org/?p=821" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(58,105,153);text-decoration:initial;outline:none">“very beneficial for all of us”</a>.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px 1em 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6em">Now, this innovative software developed by Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), and AusAID through the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction (AIFDR), together with the World Bank, has been selected as a <a href="http://www.blackducksoftware.com/open-source-rookies" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(58,105,153);text-decoration:initial;outline:none">2012 Open Source Rookie of the Year</a> by Black Duck, the trusted partner for open source software adoption, management and governance.</p>
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<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px 1em 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6em">InaSAFE, along with projects from groups such as Yahoo! and Twitter, was selected for this prestigious award from amongst 1,000’s of open source programs that were started in 2012.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px 1em 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6em">InaSAFE is free and open software that anyone with basic computer skills can use. It can produce realistic disaster scenarios for contingency planning. It has been designed to help Indonesia and other countries in the region to effectively prepare for natural disasters by better understanding the likely impacts of disasters such as floods, earthquakes or tsunamis.</p>
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AIFDR’s  Risk and Vulnerability Manager, Dr Trevor Dhu said that developing InaSAFE as an Open Source project was a conscious decision that aligns with the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) 2010 policy on open source which states that “Australian Government agencies will actively participate in open source software communities and contribute back where appropriate” (<a href="http://agimo.gov.au/files/2012/04/2010-004_AGIMO_Circular_Open_Source_Software_Policy.pdf" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(58,105,153);text-decoration:initial;outline:none">http://agimo.gov.au/files/2012/04/2010-004_AGIMO_Circular_Open_Source_Software_Policy.pdf</a>).</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px 1em 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6em">“Developing InaSAFE as an open source project has allowed us to encourage global collaboration.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px 1em 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6em">“It has allowed disaster experts from across the world to contribute to this effort to better understand disasters and, ultimately, reduce the tragic impact of disasters in Indonesia and the region.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px 1em 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6em">“Open source has proven to be a viable model for software development because it maximises quality, transparency and exposure of the project.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px 1em 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6em">“This generally leads to more collaboration and increased sustainability“, Dr Dhu said.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px 1em 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6em">Now in its fifth year, the prestigious annual award identifies the top 10 open source projects of the year based on an analysis of open source projects found in the <a href="http://www.blackducksoftware.com/products/knowledgebase" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(58,105,153);text-decoration:initial;outline:none">Black Duck<sup style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">®</sup> KnowledgeBase™</a> and <a href="http://www.ohloh.net/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(58,105,153);text-decoration:initial;outline:none">Ohloh.net</a>. This analysis highlighted that InaSAFE represents more than 50 person years of work from over 20 contributors.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px 1em 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6em">For more information about the 2012 Open Source Rookies of the Year, please visit <a href="http://www.blackducksoftware.com/open-source-rookies" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(58,105,153);text-decoration:initial;outline:none">www.blackducksoftware.com/open-source-rookies</a> and<a href="http://www.ohloh.net/p/inasafe" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(58,105,153);text-decoration:initial;outline:none">http://www.ohloh.net/p/inasafe</a></p>
<p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px 1em 0px 0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.6em">For more information about the InaSAFE project please see <a href="http://www.inasafe.org/" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(58,105,153);text-decoration:initial;outline:none">www.inasafe.org</a></p>
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