Creating Location Services for the Wireless Web: Professional Developer's Guide
Creating Location Services for the Wireless Web: Professional Developer's Guide
Research Challenges in Location-Enabled M-Services
MDM '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mobile Data Management
Trust in Electronic Commerce: Definition and Theoretical Considerations
HICSS '98 Proceedings of the Thirty-First Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences-Volume 4 - Volume 4
Location-based Services: Fundamentals and Operation
Location-based Services: Fundamentals and Operation
Zone Services - An Approach for Location-Based Data Collection
CEC-EEE '06 Proceedings of the The 8th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology and The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Computing, E-Commerce, and E-Services
Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy
Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy
IP Location
What Trust Means in E-Commerce Customer Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Conceptual Typology
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Toward a Generic Model of Trust for Electronic Commerce
International Journal of Electronic Commerce
Building a framework to characterize location-based services
NGMAST '07 Proceedings of the The 2007 International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies
A Scheme for Location-Based Internet Broadcasting and Its Applications
IEEE Communications Magazine
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The adoption of mobile technologies for emergency management has the capacity to save lives. In Australia in February 2009, the Victorian Bushfires claimed 173 lives, the worst peace-time disaster in the nation's history. The Australian government responded swiftly to the tragedy by going to tender for mobile applications that could be used during emergencies, such as mobile alerts and location services. These applications have the ability to deliver personalized information direct to the citizen during crises, complementing traditional broadcasting mediums like television and radio. Indeed governments have a responsibility to their citizens to safeguard them against both natural and human-made hazards and today national security has grown to encapsulate such societal and economic securitization. However, some citizens and lobby groups have emphasized that such breakthrough technologies need to be deployed with caution as they are fraught with ethical considerations, including the potential for breaches in privacy, security and trust. The other problem is that real world implementations of national emergency alerts have not always worked reliably and their value has come into question as a result. This paper provides a big picture view of the value of government-mandated location-based services during emergencies, and the challenges ensuing from their use.