A Fragile Link: Disaster Relief, ICTs and Development

Maitland, Carleen; Pogrebnyakov, Nicolai; Gorp, Annemijn F. van

doi:10.1109/ictd.2006.301873

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“…The study showed that insufficient ICT deployment in emergency management was discovered in this study. This agrees with the findings of Maitland, Pogrebnyakov and Van Gorp (2006), who observed that ICT deployments within an organisation are challenging. Also, the study is in line with the results of Bayiah and Kuo (2010), which showed that national actors use the radio and local TV for disaster preparedness and mobile phones for disaster response, while the Internet, fixed phone and fax had a very low usage rate or sometimes not used at all.…”

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Information and Communication Technology Deployment, Policies and Use in Emergency Management among Lagos State Government Agencies

Uthman

Ogunsola²

2017

NJSA

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This study examined the factors affecting use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the management of emergency situations in Lagos, Nigeria. The study adopted the qualitative approach in data gathering. Face-to-face interview was conducted with 15 key informants at 12 emergency management agencies which were selected out of a total of 43 agencies through multistage sampling. The agencies were first stratified into federal, state and non-governmental agencies and the selection of agencies as well as respondents was done using purposive sampling method. The selected respondents consisted of ICT personnel, risk management officers and other top management officers, such as directors, assistant directors/heads of department, and supervisors. The result showed that there were no suitable organisational or operational structures that could assist the deployment of ICT in emergency situations at the selected agencies; however, there was a high level of basic appreciation of simple ICT tools and facilities. The study recommended that agencies with no presence on the social media should create accounts through which they can share information and also interact with citizens as well as other agencies. Furthermore, there is a need to have additional policies at the state government level with regards to emergency management. It was also recommended that government agencies should acquire and use sophisticated technology equipments which can promote emergency management.

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Information and Communication Technology Deployment, Policies and Use in Emergency Management among Lagos State Government Agencies

Uthman

Ogunsola²

2017

NJSA

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“…This could include the adoption of standards and norms from healthcare or emergency management in ways that benefit all stakeholders. While leapfrogging is not as common in disaster response as in other disciplines, there is precedent for technology leapfrogging in disaster data collection and data sharing ( 68 ).…”

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Health consequences of disasters: Advancing disaster data science

Colf,

McAleavy

2024

PNAS Nexus

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Understanding the health effects of disasters is critical for effective preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. However, research is negatively impacted by both the limited availability of disaster data and the difficulty of identifying and utilizing disaster specific and health data sources relevant to disaster research and management. In response to numerous requests from disaster researchers, emergency managers, and operational response organizations, 73 distinct data sources at the intersection of disasters and health were compiled and categorized. These data sources generally cover the entire United States, address both disasters and health, and are available to researchers at little or no cost. Data sources are described and characterized to support improved research and guide evidence-based decision making. Current gaps and potential solutions are presented to improve disaster data collection, utilization, and dissemination.

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“…Rapid emergency response adds an additional layer of complexity and difficulty to ICTD projects and research [20]. Ken Banks and the creators of FrontlineSMS first applied an SMS-based reporting system to crowdsource election monitoring in Nigeria in 2007 [1].…”

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Scalable crisis relief

Hester

Shaw

Biewald

2010

Proceedings of the First ACM Symposium on Computing for Development

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Crowdsourced crisis response harnesses distributed networks of humans in combination with information and communication technology (ICT) to create scalable, flexible and rapid communication systems that promote well-being, survival, and recovery during the acute phase of an emergency. In this paper, we analyze a recent experience in which CrowdFlower conducted crowdsourced translation, categorization and geo-tagging for SMS-based reporting as part of Mission 4636 after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. We discuss CrowdFlower's approach to this task, lessons learned from the experience, and opportunities to generalize the techniques and technologies involved for other ICT for development (ICTD) applications. We find that CrowdFlower's most significant contribution to Mission 4636 and to the broader field of crowdsourced crisis relief lies in the flexible, scalable nature of the pool of earthquake survivors, volunteers, workers, and machines that the organization engaged during the emergency response efforts.

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A Fragile Link: Disaster Relief, ICTs and Development

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Information and Communication Technology Deployment, Policies and Use in Emergency Management among Lagos State Government Agencies

Information and Communication Technology Deployment, Policies and Use in Emergency Management among Lagos State Government Agencies

Health consequences of disasters: Advancing disaster data science

Scalable crisis relief

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