Workshop on Networked Disaster Management: Information Technology and Crisis Response

在过去几年中，已投入大量资金和努力部署尖端联网信息技术，以支持地方和国家一级的紧急服务。一个重要而悬而未决的问题是：当这些技术系统部署在真正的组织内和真正的紧急情况下时，它们是否真的像承诺的那样起作用？这项提议将支持举办一次为期一天的研讨会，以解决这一问题。为了使讲习班具有一致的结构，将开发一套案例，以评估和说明几个现有系统的特点。大约25名学术专家和紧急服务政府从业人员将出席。除案例外，还将编写一份讲习班报告，并在全国范围内分发。

A great deal of funding and effort has been applied over the last several years to deploy cutting edge networked information technologies to support emergency services at local to national levels. An important and open question is: do such technical systems actually work as promised when they are deployed within real organizations and in real emergency circumstances? This proposal will support a one-day workshop to address this issue. To give a consistent structure to the workshop, a set of cases will be developed to evaluate and characterize several existing systems. Approximately 25 academic experts and emergency services government practitioners will attend. In addition to the cases, a workshop report will be developed and distributed nationally.