Call for Papers
TRACK TITLE
Community Engagement & Practitioner Cases
TRACK CHAIRS
Bernd Hellingrath
- University of Münster
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Zeno Franco
- Medical College of Wisconsin
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TRACK DESCRIPTION
There is a critical, world-wide need to improve the quality, effectiveness, appropriateness, cost, and accessibility of information and communication systems intended to facilitate crisis response, operations, and logistics in the face of devastating disasters. This improvement must be based on an increased understanding of how practitioners and impacted communities actually conduct their response, operations, and logistics work, including stakeholder roles, strategies, practices, information usage, constraints, motivations, and environments. The primary goals of this track are to increase this understanding through practitioner case studies of current practices, effective ways of operating, and emerging technological solutions, and support Community Engagement in Research (CEnR), i.e., mixed-methods approaches examining technology use in real-world settings that embed citizens and larger social systems in the research process.
TRACK KEYWORDS
- Disaster management practitioners,
- community stakeholders,
- citizen science,
- civil defense,
- NGOs,
- human rights
TRACK EXAMPLE TOPICS
- Community/Academic partnerships for disaster planning & response
- Support of successful practice through methods and/or tools for effective assessment, evaluation or decision-making in crisis situations
- Adoption of new technologies for crisis management by practitioners
- Effective work with civil defense & first responder experts and authorities
- Consideration of human rights in approaches to uncertainty during crisis response operations and the organizations that conduct them (for example, INGOs in humanitarian operations)
