TY - GEN
T1 - Building global bridges
T2 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM 2008
AU - Saab, David J.
AU - Maldonado, Edgar
AU - Orendovici, Razvan
AU - Ngamassi Tchouakeu, Louis Marie
AU - Zhao, Kang
AU - Van Gorp, Annemijn
AU - Maitland, Carleen
AU - Tapia, Andrea H.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Information is a critical component to improved inter-agency coordination during disaster response. Coordinated information and communication technologies deployments as well as coordinated information management processes are important tools in the provision of this information. However, multilateral agency coordination faces many challenges, which has sparked the formation of coordination bodies. This research examines three such bodies and describes their organizational arrangements as well as identifies common challenges they face to effective coordination. It finds that the bodies differ on a variety of dimensions including funding mechanisms, autonomy, and number of members, which will likely have implications for the strategies they employ. Also, the coordination bodies identify a lack of standardization, capacity and information availability and analysis as challenges to improved coordination.
AB - Information is a critical component to improved inter-agency coordination during disaster response. Coordinated information and communication technologies deployments as well as coordinated information management processes are important tools in the provision of this information. However, multilateral agency coordination faces many challenges, which has sparked the formation of coordination bodies. This research examines three such bodies and describes their organizational arrangements as well as identifies common challenges they face to effective coordination. It finds that the bodies differ on a variety of dimensions including funding mechanisms, autonomy, and number of members, which will likely have implications for the strategies they employ. Also, the coordination bodies identify a lack of standardization, capacity and information availability and analysis as challenges to improved coordination.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84905571525
SN - 9780615206974
T3 - Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
SP - 471
EP - 483
BT - Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
PB - Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Y2 - 4 May 2008 through 7 May 2008
ER -