Nuwan Waidyanatha is a Sahana Software Foundation Board Director and a LIRNEasia Senior Research Fellow. He has strong credentials in emergency communication systems; especially, the development and deployment of early warning and first response systems. He recently finished leading the design, development, and implementation of the Sahana Alert and Messaging Broker in Myanmar, Maldives, and the Philippines. For over a decade, Nuwan has been conducting emergency communication related action research and pilot implementations in the Asia Pacific Region. He has a several peer reviewed publications on the use of low-cost tech nologies, communication standards, and human computer interfaces. He has worked with the International Telecommunication Union, on short term assignments, as well as with LIRNEasia, evaluating national emergency communications and recommending improvements inIndia, Timor-Leste, and Nepal. He applies his Operations Research (Analytics), Computer Engineering, and Systems Theory Master and Bachelor degrees, in his work, along with a Social Science touch for delivering practical solutions that make economic sense.
