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Resilience-building and the crisis informatics agenda: Lessons learned from open cities Kathmandu
Robert Soden
author
Nama Budhathoki
author
Leysia Palen
author
2014
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
English
Information systems that support crisis responders and disaster risk management efforts are complex sociotechnical phenomena comprised of human capacities and relationships, data and software tools. Research in crisis informatics has highlighted the ways in which emergent groups of digital volunteers, or volunteer technical communities, have mobilized during disaster events to support information management efforts. This paper describes an action research project to support the creation of an ex ante volunteer technical community from among the potentially affected population in Kathmandu, Nepal, one of the most seismically at-risk cities in the world. In exploring this case, we argue that projects that attempt to create local open data ecosystems can be valuable but require investment in their design, execution and on-going maintenance.
Information management
Information systems
Action research
Crisis informatics
Geo-spatial data
Open datum
Openstreetmap
Participatory design
Resilience
Information science
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RobertSoden_etal2014
ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings – 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
ISCRAM 2014
S.R. Hiltz
M
S
Pfaff
editor
11th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2014
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA
conference publication
339
348
9780692211946
2411-3387
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