Paper Info
Title
Humanitarian Information Management and Systems
Abstract
In times of major disasters such as hurricane Katrina or the Sichuan earthquake, the need for accurate and timely information is as crucial as is rapid and coherent coordination among the responding humanitarian community. Effective humanitarian information systems that provide timely access to comprehensive, relevant, and reliable information are critical to humanitarian operations. The faster the humanitarian community is able to collect, analyze, disseminate and act on key information, the more effective the response will be, the better needs will be met, and the greater the benefit to the affected populations. This paper presents fundamental principles of humanitarian information management as endorsed by the international humanitarian community, introduces generic systems design premises and presents two recent collaborative efforts in humanitarian information systems development.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-642-00440-7_2
Mobile Response
Keywords
Field
DocType
timely information,humanitarian information management,generic systems design premise,reliable information,humanitarian information systems development,effective humanitarian information system,humanitarian community,key information,international humanitarian community,humanitarian operation,information systems,information management,information system,system design
Information system,Information management,Humanitarian aid,As is,Systems design,Dissemination,Humanitarian Logistics,Engineering,Management science,Process management
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5424
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.57
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bartel Van de Walle134349.52
Gerd Van Den Eede281.57
Willem J. Muhren351.28