Processes for crisis mitigation must permit coordination flexibility and dynamic change to empower crisis mitigation coordinators and experts to deal with the unexpected situations. However, such mitigation processes must also provide enough structure to prevent chaotic response and increase mitigation effectiveness. Such combination of structure and flexibility cannot be effectively supported ...

Managing large scale and distributed crisis events is a national priority; and it is a priority that presents information technology challenges to the responsible government agencies. Geographical information systems (with their ability to map out evolving crisis events, affected human and infrastructure assets, as well as actions taken and resources applied) have been indispensable in all stag...

In recent years the EU has been increasingly involved in development and implementation of crisis policy as a component of its development and security policy. This process is seriously complicated by the EU architects, who had never conceived it as a crisis management institute. Therefore they failed to design built-in organisational capacities into the Union to mitigate and respond to crises....

Both for healthcare and crisis management, the usage of Information Systems (IS) has become routine. In fact, they are unthinkable without sophisticated IT support. Virtually all IS rely on data storage. Despite the document-oriented nature of medical datasets, relational databases (RDBMS) prevail. The authors evaluate a document-based database to assess its feasibility for the domain of health...

Traditionally, most of social scientifics who study operative/instrumental crisis management has shared the idea that this one does not include only the simple coordination and response to immediate consequences of disasters at their acute moments. It displays characteristics that are more complex and raises to the public authorities and “crisis managers” more exigencies than the simple reactiv...

The early designs for crisis management decision support systems used data-based or model-based methodologies and architectures. We argue that the complexity of crisis management situations means that a greater emphasis on collaboration is needed. Moreover, modern interactive Web 2.0 technologies allow group decision support to be offered to geographically dispersed teams. Given that crisis man...

The growing use of a variety of information systems in crisis management both by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and emergency management agencies makes the challenges of information sharing and interoperability increasingly important. The use of semantic web technologies is a growing area and is a technology stack specifically suited to these challenges. This paper presents a review of o...

When the SARS virus broke out in Singapore, it posed a challenge to its crisis managers. The government mobilized its egovernment infrastructure as a platform to manage this crisis. The Defense Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) provided IT support for contact tracing operations, a key part of containing the spread of the virus. DSTA developed an information system in two weeks to manage data...