SecureGov: secure data sharing for government services
Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research
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The essential components of effective emergency management and response include pertinent information sharing across various government agencies as well as non-governmental and private organizations to assess the situation, identify the needed resources for emergency response and generate response plans. Interoperability is a key requirement for information sharing from disparate systems and organizations, such as the case in emergency response. In this paper, we present a emergency response system that comprises of the following component: (1) ontology library for resolving the semantic differences of information pertaining to the incident, its severity, resource requirements and resource availability; (2) reasoning engine for deriving the resource requirements and emergency response plans based on the policies of different agencies and modes of cooperation; (3) workflow management for visualization, status monitoring, execution, and adaptation of emergency response process; and (4) a geographical interface for visualization of situational awareness data. Utilizing the recent initiative by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology division to architect, develop, and deploy a standards-based information sharing infrastructure called UICDS (Unified Incident Command and Decision Support), our system enables effective information sharing and interoperability among different New Jersey state agency systems. These include the RDDB of the NJ Office of Emergency Management (NJOEM), Hippocrates of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS), the special person's registry of the NJ state.