The software is open source and modular; these components can be adopted, adapted, and localized to suit different geographies, hazards, and contexts.
Together, these components form a comprehensive, open-source infrastructure for disaster intelligence and coordination. By combining community reports, automated alerts, data integration, resource tracking, and institutional dashboards, Siti Software empowers communities, responders, and governments to act quickly, reduce losses, and strengthen resilience in the face of climate-related hazards.
Siti OSS currently powers the platforms:
Each deployment strengthens a shared global infrastructure for climate adaptation, where communities facing similar risks contribute knowledge, experience, and innovation back to the network.
The sections below describe each component of the Siti stack in more detail.
Siti.Sense
Siti.Sense is the core intelligence engine of the platform, enabling real-time, high-resolution disaster reporting and situational awareness.
Detect
The system gathers reports directly from affected communities by automatically detecting disaster-related posts on social media, reaching out to affected individuals, and guiding users through structured reporting flows. These reports are verified, categorized, and mapped in real time, creating a continuously evolving picture of disaster conditions on the ground.
The system integrates with social media platforms, messaging channels, and institutional data sources to bridge information gaps between communities, responders, and decision-makers; transforming fragmented information into a reliable public data stream that supports more informed decision-making and coordinated response.
Right slideshow: User reports on the Siti powered platform, PetaBencana.id, demonstrate how the humanitarian chatbot model for crowdsourcing disaster information via social media channels can successfully enable widespread participation while also ensuring accurate, reliable, and well-structured data that can be accessed and understood by all users without any extensive training process.
Siti.Link
Siti.Link enables information integration from multiple external sources including government agencies, weather services, sensors, and other monitoring systems. Verified institutional data can be incorporated alongside crowdsourced reports, improving accuracy and completeness.
Open APIs allow local developers and partners to connect additional systems, build dashboards, and extend the platform for local needs.
Siti.Alert
Siti.Alert ensures that critical information reaches affected communities in real time. Alerts are delivered through widely used channels including WhatsApp, email, and other messaging platforms, notifying people of evolving hazards and connecting them to reporting and resource coordination tools. By automating risk communication, Siti.Alert helps communities act proactively, reducing harm and losses.
Siti.Aid
Siti.Aid supports community-led coordination of resources during and after disasters. The system allows people to request assistance, offer resources, and track the distribution of essential supplies such as food, water, shelter, and medical aid.
Map
By making these needs and offers visible in real time, Siti.Aid helps transform spontaneous acts of mutual aid into a coordinated logistics system. Communities, volunteers, and responders can identify where support is needed most and mobilize resources, without duplicating efforts. The system complements formal disaster response efforts while empowering communities to organize support for one another at scale.
Early pilot results: 70% faster aid delivery during February 2025 flooding in Sumatra.
Read more and the research behind it:
Siti.Dash
Siti.Dash provides optional custom dashboards designed for government agencies, emergency managers, and response organizations. Dashboards can be tailored to the needs of different agencies, integrating community reports with institutional data streams and internal response systems. This enables responders to track impacts, verify information, prioritize interventions, and communicate with affected communities through a shared situational awareness platform. particularly valuable for institutional deployments, supporting informed decision-making during crises and linking local response efforts to broader national or regional operations.
To raise awareness for the International Disaster Risk Reduction Day on 13 October 2022, Yayasan Peta Bencana’s Director Nashin Mahtani joined the Southeast Asia Today News team to explain exactly how Siti OSS works to enable and expand disaster risk reduction, response, and recovery in Indonesia, the Philippines, and beyond. Please share it widely.
Methodology
Since 2017, Siti OSS researchers have brought diverse expertise to the development of the software spanning architecture, systems engineering, statistics, anthropology, artistic research, design, geography, hydrography, hydraulic modeling, programming, and UX/UI development, among many other fields. Through an approach where social science and design research compliment and inform the technical development of the code itself, ensures that the software evolves in direct response to community needs.
By fostering continuous collaboration with the widest variety of stakeholders - including residents, experts, disaster managers, first responders, artists, activisits, community leaders - Siti OSS researchers have developed a co-creation process that drives every aspect of the platform, from humanitarian chatbots and web-based maps to disaster-specific tools.This commitment to inclusive, community-driven development has enabled the software to thrive and scale while maintaining a user-centered, grassroots-informed approach to risk mapping and disaster response technology.
Research Publications
Mahtani, Nashin. “After the Model Breaks: On Next Gen Intelligence.” Crisis Response Journal Vol 20 Issue 3, 92-95, August 2025.
Mahtani, N. “When the warnings don’t work, but the Wi-Fi does: How communities are rewriting the future of climate response.” Prevention Web United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) invited guest editorial, 27 June 2025.
Mahtani, Nashin. “To Dream Like A River: Wet Politics for Turbulent Worlds,” in North Sea Rising: A Case for Water-Based Commons, edited by Nabi Agzamov and Francesca Vanelli. (Prague: Vi Per Gallery), 2024.
Mahtani, N. “Can #SelfiesSaveLives? Humanitarian chat-bots help disaster response in Southeast Asia,” OECD Invited Guest Editorial, September 2021.
Yayasan Peta Bencana [Disaster Map Foundation] is the founder and steward of Siti.
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