Information behavior in crisis situations

The Management of Geographic Information Flows in Crisis Situations

This paper studies the management of geographic information and knowledge flows for decision support in crisis situations. The authors compare and contrast a number of concepts that have been forwarded by academics as possible methodologies for the study of this area. The authors believe that they may have found an answer using system models combined with decision-making, information management...

Information Needs of Strategic Level Decision-Makers in Crisis Situations

This paper studies the management of information and knowledge flows for decisionsupport in crisis situations. Especially, the paper addresses the information needs of strategic level decision-makers in military organizations. The authors present the results of an empirical study carried out in Finland last year. The results contain general requirements and definition of the information content...

Editorial: Information Technologies for Emergency and Crisis Situations Management

Chief Information Officer (CIO) Leadership in Crisis Situations: Subordinate Stories from the Japan Earthquake Crisis

Two years after the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake Disaster that occurred on March 11 on 2011, and the subsequent nuclear plant failure at Fukushima, organizations are rethinking their business continuity plans to accommodate large-scale crises. Yet Information Technology (IT) functions may benefit from lessons other than the technical or procedural. People leadership, lauded as an important sk...

Crisis MT: Developing A Cookbook for MT in Crisis Situations

In this paper, we propose that MT is an important technology in crisis events, something that can and should be an integral part of a rapid-response infrastructure. By integrating MT services directly into a messaging infrastructure (whatever the type of messages being serviced, e.g., text messages, Twitter feeds, blog postings, etc.), MT can be used to provide first pass translations into a ma...