Name
Title | ||
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Resilience-Building and the Crisis Informatics Agenda: Lessons Learned from Open Cities Kathmandu |
Abstract | ||
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Information systems that support crisis responders and disaster risk management efforts are complex sociotechnical phenomena comprised of human capacities and relationships, data and software tools. Research in crisis informatics has highlighted the ways in which emergent groups of digital volunteers, or volunteer technical communities, have mobilized during disaster events to support information management efforts. This paper describes an action research project to support the creation of an ex ante volunteer technical community from among the potentially affected population in Kathmandu, Nepal, one of the most seismically at-risk cities in the world. In exploring this case, we argue that projects that attempt to create local open data ecosystems can be valuable but require investment in their design, execution and on-going maintenance. |
Year | Venue | Field |
|---|---|---|
2014 | ISCRAM | Information system,Psychological resilience,Population,Open data,Information management,Public relations,Knowledge management,Risk management,Action research,Sociotechnical system,Geography |
DocType | Citations | PageRank |
Conference | 11 | 0.82 |
References | Authors | |
7 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Soden | 1 | 46 | 5.90 |
| nama budhathoki | 2 | 11 | 0.82 |
| Leysia Ann Palen | 3 | 3104 | 340.89 |