A Qualitative Analysis of the Spontaneous Volunteer Response to the 2013 Sudan Floods: Changing the Paradigm

Albahari, Amin; Schultz, Carl H.

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“…Using communication technologies such as social media, E-mail, and SMS, it tries to share and receive information among NGOs present in the area for providing humanitarian services. The problem of this mechanism is how to evaluate it in the services, which is obvious for insufficient documentation and not determining the objectives[16] …”

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Nongovernmental organizations coordination models in natural hazards: A systematic review

Rouhi

Gorji

Maleki

2019

J Edu Health Promot

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Nongovernmental organizations coordination models in natural hazards: A systematic review

Rouhi

Gorji

Maleki

2019

J Edu Health Promot

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“…The notion of the volunteer, or more specifically the non-affiliated volunteer, as an unreliable, unpredictable and undesirable in crisis response is a strong assumption that gives legitimacy to the prevalence of and nature of top-down ISCV research (Schneider, 1992;Barsky et al, 2007;Johansson, 2009;Harris et al, 2017). This thesis is, in contrast, guided by the assumption that these volunteers have an essential and important contribution to make in crisis response (Albahari and Schultz, 2017;Carlton and Mills, 2017;Paciarotti et al, 2018;Rauchecker and Schryen, 2018;Strandh and Eklund, 2018).…”

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“…In the context of CV practice, triggers for digital transformation can be related to the relevance of citizen's expectations that sufficient efficiency and capacity be achieved in crisis response (Saaroni, 2015;Albahari and Schultz, 2017;Mergel et al, 2018). Triggers for DT in CV may also emanate from other levels in society, such as local, national or international administrative functions or business's (Hagen et al, 2018), and their needs to meet the scale of demand on public services and increase responsiveness and openness (also in crisis contexts) (Klievink et al, 2016;Lindgren and van Veenstra, 2018).…”

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“…Although there are exceptions (Waldman et al, 2016;Albahari and Schultz, 2017;Silk et al, 2018), in general, the literature study revealed that it is common to discuss uses of technology to support CV practice without ever mentioning the more precise nature or character of the tasks to be performed by volunteers or the capabilities volunteers need to perform these tasks.…”

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“…Some researchers recognise that volunteers have the potential to perform certain types of on-site tasks in the event of a crisis or disaster. These are food provision, delivery of basic health care, environmental sanitation campaigns, efforts to raise awareness, construction (Albahari and Schultz, 2017), donations and aid collection (Agrawal et al, 2015). Waldman and Kaminska (2015) relate to the capabilities that volunteers can provide in a flooding crisis.…”

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Digital Transformation for Crisis Volunteerism : A study in the aftermath of the Swedish Forest Fires Crisis in 2018

Murphy

2021

FiF-avhandling - Filosofiska Fakulteten – Linköpings Universitet

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In the summer of 2018, Sweden was taken by surprise and engulfed by forest fires on an unprecedented scale. Various forms of crisis volunteerism (CV) proved essential in the large scale response that ensued. Previous information systems (IS) research gives insights, both theoretically and practically, on the potential of IS and digitalisation to enhance and support crisis response. However, the forest fires demonstrated that CV practices and practitioners in Sweden have practically no such support. CV is, in other words, an essential part of the crisis response system, but unsupported by dedicated digitalisation. The aim of this thesis is therefore to understand what is required to enable a digital transformation (DT) that will significantly improve CV practice and the overall crisis response system.Sweden is not unique in this respect. From an international perspective, IS research devotes much attention to the area of crisis response. However, this is most commonly done using the perspective and needs of crisis management stakeholders as a departing point. Also, despite research on and the availability of IS solutions, the degree of practical implementation would appear to be low. This thesis is therefore also based on the perceived knowledge gap that the lack of IS and digitalisation supporting CV is, in part, a result of the lack of research focus on volunteer stakeholders and the CV practice itself. Another gap noted is the lack of knowledge regarding the real-world practice of CV which contributes to undermining the development and use of IS solutions for CV.This thesis, therefore, provides a much needed holistic understanding of real-world CV. This understanding moves the perspective of volunteer stakeholders to the forefront without losing the perspective of crisis management. This has been done via an empirical study in the aftermath of the Swedish forest fires crisis as well as via studies of international IS literature on crisis response and CV. This has resulted in a unique holistic and comprehensive model that relates to the complexity, dynamics and emergence involved in CV practice. Via this model it is possible to relate specific parts or aspects of CV practice, to the whole practice area and continue modelling attributes in greater detail, as required, depending on DT or IS design needs.Underlying the focus in this thesis lies a mild critique of previous IS research with more reductionist approaches, whereby the relevance of broader contextual understandings has been downplayed. The thesis This work, Digital Transformation: A Study in the Aftermath of the Swedish Forest Fires Crisis in 2018, is written by Maria Murphy, Linköping University. She presents this work as her licentiate thesis in Information Systems,

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An NGO disaster relief network for small and medium-scale natural hazards in China

Lü

Zhan

et al. 2021

Nat Hazards

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As China is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to small and medium-scale natural hazards (SMNHs), its NGOs have had a great deal of experience in dealing with disaster relief, especially since the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake; however, there have been few studies that have comprehensively examined China’s NGO disaster relief networks (NDRNs). One Foundation (OF), which is one of the most active public-fund raising foundations in China, has been engaged in developing a nationwide NDRN made up of 20 independently operating provincial networks that are focused on SMNHs. This paper explored the structures, operations and challenges in the representative North-Sichuan network, from which the following key factors for sustainable NDRNs were identified: (1) a combined hierarchal and networked organizational structure; and (2) a coordinated external and internal network operations mechanism that has a specific entry threshold to ensure healthy network expansion, periodic member NGO training to enhance network capacity, and reciprocal and cooperative government-NGO relationships. These findings provide a useful reference for the establishment and development of NDRNs in other countries.

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A Qualitative Analysis of the Spontaneous Volunteer Response to the 2013 Sudan Floods: Changing the Paradigm

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Nongovernmental organizations coordination models in natural hazards: A systematic review

Nongovernmental organizations coordination models in natural hazards: A systematic review

Digital Transformation for Crisis Volunteerism : A study in the aftermath of the Swedish Forest Fires Crisis in 2018

An NGO disaster relief network for small and medium-scale natural hazards in China

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