Improving disaster management

Authors:
Sarah Underwood
Affiliations:
Teddington, UK
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
2010

Citing 4
Cited 3

Citizen communications in crisis: anticipating a future of ICT-supported public participation

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Finding community through information and communication technology in disaster response

Proceedings of the 2008 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
A Systematic Approach to Improve Communication for Emergency Response

HICSS '09 Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
A MANET Based Emergency Communication and Information System for Catastrophic Natural Disasters

ICDCSW '09 Proceedings of the 2009 29th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops

Finding information in an era of abundance: Towards a collaborative tagging environment in government

Information Polity - Government 2.0: Making Connections between citizens, data and government
Using SOS message propagation to estimate the location of immobilized persons

Proceedings of the 18th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
An extended attribute based access control model with trust and privacy: Application to a collaborative crisis management system

Future Generation Computer Systems

Quantified Score

Hi-index	48.22

Visualization

Abstract

Social networking, sophisticated imaging, and dual-use technologies promise improved disaster management, but they must be adopted by governments and aid agencies if more lives are to be saved in the wake of crises.