Hagar Crisis Information Management

Communication and Technologies
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-78063-287-2
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

Reihe: Chandos Information Professional Series

This book explores the management of information in crises, particularly the interconnectedness of information, people, and technologies during crises. Natural disasters, such as the Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11 and human-made crises, such as the recent political disruption in North Africa and the Middle East, have demonstrated that there is a great need to understand how individuals, government, and non-government agencies create, access, organize, communicate, and disseminate information within communities during crisis situations. This edited book brings together papers written by researchers and practitioners from a variety of information perspectives in crisis preparedness, response and recovery. - Edited by the author who coined the term crisis informatics - Provides new technological insights into crisis management information - Contributors are from information science, information management, applied information technology, informatics, computer science, telecommunications, and libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hagar, Christine

Leseproben

About the contributors
Ban Al-Ani is a Research Scientist at the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine (UCI). She was a tenured lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney Australia (prior to joining UCI), where she also received her PhD in Computer Systems. Her dissertation research was in the area of analysis of early informal requirements. Her current work spans three main research areas within the general domain of software engineering, namely requirements engineering, distributed collaboration, and human-computer interaction. She is currently investigating trust in distributed teams, interviewing developers in Fortune 500 organizations in addition to research into use of technologies by non-profit organizations and marginalized groups. Ban has been invited to contribute to several communities including the International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE – PC member) 2010–12, ICSE education workshop (PC member) 2008, IEEE Special Issue Journal Software Process: Improvement and Practice 2009, Special Issues of IEEE software 2009–10, International Community on Information Systems on Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2009), and Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society 2010, and was an invited speaker to the KNOWing workshop held in conjunction with ICGSE 2010. Her most recent contribution has been to accept an invitation to be a panel member of the Requirements Engineering workshop held in conjunction with the Ground System Architectures Workshop in 2011. Kenneth Mark Anderson is an Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Co-director of Project EPIC. He is the Associate Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies of his Department and a fellow of CU’s ATLAS Institute. His research interests include hypermedia, software and web engineering, software architecture, and the design of large-scale software infrastructure. His current research supports the design and implementation of a large-scale data collection and analytics infrastructure for crisis informatics and how such software supports the analysis and understanding of the behaviors of members of the public in mass emergency events. His past research has examined the utility of applying hypermedia techniques to various aspects of software development. He was fortunate to spend a sabbatical at the University of Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark in 2005–6 designing infrastructure for contextual hypermedia systems; that work received the Engelbart Best Paper award at the 2006 ACM Hypertext conference. Professor Anderson earned his BS (1990), MS (1992) and PhD (1997) degrees in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine. Mossaab Bagdouri is an MS candidate in Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He received the Fulbright Foreign Student Scholarship Grantee award in 2009 after getting his State Engineer degree in Computer Science from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et d’Analyse des Systèmes (ENSIAS) and working as a Project Engineer in Information Systems at Maroc Telecom, both in Morocco. Mr Bagdouri is interested in the Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing fields. He is currently working under the supervision of Professor Leysia Palen in Project EPIC (Empowering the Public in Crisis). With an interest in the use of social media during political crises, he is examining the usage of topic modeling as an unsupervised analysis approach to understand the impact of the Iraq war on the Iraqi blogosphere. Fredrik Bergstrand is a PhD student at the department of Applied Information Technology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In his PhD project he studies the use and design of information technology in emergency response and crisis management. Mario Antonius Birowo completed his PhD in the School of Media and Information at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia in 2010, sponsored by an Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (EIPRS); thesis title ‘Community radio and grass-roots democracy: a case study of three villages in Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia’. He completed a Masters degree in Communication Science at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines in 1998; thesis title ‘Re-examining participatory communication: a study of four NGOs in Indonesia’. He has been a lecturer in the Communication Department, Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University, Indonesia since 1993, with research interests that include participatory communication, public health communication, and intercultural communication. He contributed a chapter titled ‘Community radio and the empowerment of local culture in Indonesia’ in Politics and the Media in Twenty-First Century Indonesia, edited by Krishna Sen and David Hill (Routledge, 2010). Stephanie Ganic Braunstein is Head Government Documents and Microforms Librarian at Louisiana State University (LSU) Libraries in Baton Rouge. As the head of the Government Documents Department, she also serves as the Regional Coordinator for Federal Depository Libraries (FDLs) in southern Louisiana, having direct oversight of fifteen selective FDLs and shared oversight of eleven more who report to the other Louisiana Regional Coordinator for the northern and western part of the state. Of the first fifteen mentioned above, all but four are located in New Orleans; and several of those were affected by the hurricanes of 2005. Braunstein is also a library liaison to the Political Science faculty and graduate students at LSU, teaches as an adjunct for the LSU graduate program in Library and Information Science (the Government Information course), and is one of two faculty senators. She has presented at many conferences and published in several scholarly/professional publications, including Collaborative Librarianship, Codex: the Journal of the Louisiana Chapter of the ACRL and a new reference work entitled Great Lives from History: African Americans, to be published in fall 2011 by Salem Press. Most recently, Braunstein has been appointed for a three-year term, beginning in June 2011, to the Depository Library Council by the Public Printer of the United States, William J. Boarman. In addition to her MLIS from San Jose State University, she holds an MA in English from California State University Sacramento, where she taught English Composition as a Lecturer for several years. John L. Brobst is a PhD candidate at the Florida State University College of Communication and Information, and Research Associate at the Information Use Management and Policy Institute (http://www.ii.fsu.edu). His research interests include federal information policy, website usability and accessibility, and emergent trends in library management. Mr Brobst has extensive professional experience in the field of information technology management, with over 20 years of experience in the areas of systems development and project management. This experience includes leading such innovative technology management initiatives as international website developments, federal policy formulation, and simulation-based acquisition programs for improved systems development. Mr Brobst holds the following degrees: MS (Information Management; Syracuse University), MBA (Finance; Kent State University) and BS (Mathematics; Kent State University). Sarah Gannon is a Product/System Manager with Ericsson AB. She developed a solution with the United Nations (UN) to solve the local technical communication problems that are involved in a humanitarian response to a disaster situation. She has worked in the field with UN information and communication technology field engineers supporting operations in Banda Aceh, Indonesia after the 2004 tsunami, as well as after the 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. She has been a volunteer in Ericsson’s philanthropy program, Ericsson Response, since 2003; via this program she has contributed to technical forums such as WGET (Working Group for Emergency Telecommunications). Elisa Giaccardi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Institute of Culture and Technology at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Prior to this position, she was Senior Research Scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she was the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant investigating the use of social technologies in outdoor recreation and natural heritage practice. She has combined academic and professional activities in digital media, interaction design, and community informatics since 1996, and graduated in 2003 from the Science Technology and Art Research program at the University of Plymouth in the UK with an interdisciplinary PhD in metadesign. Her work currently focuses on issues of public authoring, collective storytelling, and place-making with an active interest in the area of ‘new heritage’. She has lectured and published her work on several occasions, including journals and venues such as International Journal of Heritage Studies, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Design Issues, Digital Creativity, Communications of the ACM, Museums & the Web, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), and ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. Giaccardi is currently editing a...