Dynamic Use of Social Network and Leadership Theories in Disaster Recovery

第一批返回墨西哥湾沿岸地区（GCR）的人员和组织的信息来源和帐户可以成为随后返回的人员和组织确定其自己的后勤计划的能力的一个组成部分。在GCR中，返回、重建和重新连接的信息、流程和操作方法应该来自红十字会和联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）等来源，但也可以来自将形成的领导者、组织和新网络协会（例如，新兴的社区街区协会），它们实际上在这个过程中是成功还是失败的。学习他们的经验成为信息共享的另一个来源，以帮助每个随后的再入者成功地返回GCR。为了实现长期目标，这些信息和衍生模型将有助于为将来不可避免地面临类似灾难的社区建立积极的计划。该项目旨在跟踪、分发和战略性地管理这些信息和当前的资源需求，并通过对这些信息的管理，为重建GCR的社会网络和整体基础设施提供支持。然而，它不仅仅是传播信息——已经有人尝试过并已经做到了——而且还为数据、信息、传播和相关社会过程的管理提供了强有力的理论框架方法和分析。通过运用对社会过程的理论理解，可以追踪驱动GCR重建的隐藏关系和微妙趋势。因此，这个多学科项目运用了通信网络、组织心理学和计算机科学理论。通过实施和测试附加信息资源对网络的影响，提出了一个重新连接和改善社区网络结构的模型。研究目标包括：(1)实地研究，揭示组织回归社区的经历。“吸取的教训”将与现有的信息资源相结合，旨在向区域再入者提供援助。(2)从实地调研中收集到的现有信息和“经验教训”将成为智能信息系统（I2S）的一部分，该系统将根据用户的搜索模式和使用情况不断构建动态信息中心。项目要求包括：(a)支持将涉及使用侵入性最小的方法收集有关实际重返大气层经验的信息的实地研究；(b)支持扩大I2S作为（重新）建立联盟的资源的可用性；(c)不断进行在线监测以调整数据库。

The information sources and accounts of the first returning people and organizations to the Gulf Coast Region (GCR) can be an integral part of the ability for subsequent returning people and organizations to determine their own logistic plans. Information, processes, and the how-to's of returning, rebuilding, and reconnecting in the GCR should come from sources like the Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but also, can come from the leaders, organizations, and new network associations (e.g., new and emerging community block associations) that will form, and actually succeed or fail at the process. Learning their experiences becomes yet another source of information sharing to help each subsequent reentrant succeed in their own return to the GCR. In contributing to long term goals, the information and derived models will help build proactive plans for communities that will inevitably face similar future disasters. This project is designed to track, distribute, and strategically manage such information and immediate resource needs, and with the management of such information, offer support in rebuilding the social networks and overall infrastructure of the GCR. Yet, it is not just disseminating the information-as has already been attempted and done-but providing powerful theoretically framed methods and analyses to the management of the data, information, dissemination, and the related social processes involved. The hidden relationships and the subtle trends that drive the rebuilding of the GCR can be tracked by applying a theoretical understanding of the social processes. So, this multidisciplinary project employs communication networks, organizational psychology, and computer science theories. It advances a model for reconnecting and improving a community network structure by implementing and testing the effects of additional information resources on the network. Study objectives include: (1) Field research to uncover accounts of experiences as organizations return to their communities. The 'lessons learned' will be integrated with existing information resources that are meant to offer assistance to regional reentrants. (2) The existing information and "lessons learned" gleaned from field research will be part of an Intelligent Information System (I2S) that continuously builds a dynamic information hub based on the users' search patterns and usage. Project requirements include: (a) Support for field research that will involve use of minimally intrusive methods for gathering information about actual re-entry experiences, (b) Support to expand on the availability of the I2S as a resource for (re)building alliances; and (c) Ongoing online monitoring to adapt the database.