[AISWorld] Final CFP HICSS-47 E-Government Track - New Minitrack - ICT-enabled Crisis, Disaster and Catastrophe Management

[Akemi Chatfield]

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

Papers are due June 15 for the HICSS-47 Conference, January 6-9, 2014, on Big Island.

Forty-Seventh Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-47)
(http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/)

January 6 - 9, 2014 (Monday-Thursday)
Hilton Waikoloa, Big Island (http://www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com<http://www.hiltonwaikoloavillage.com/>)

Track: E-Government
New Mini-Track:
ICT-enabled Crisis, Disaster, and Catastrophe Management

“Resilient information infrastructures for supporting human actors are critical in agile and
adaptive crisis, disaster, and catastrophe management”

The frequency, scale, and impacts of natural and man-made disasters have markedly increased over the past decades. This new E-Government Minitrack considers this as a major concern for citizens, communities, and governments. As they have become more networked through smart mobile systems and intelligent information and communication technologies (ICT), the level of interdependency and new vulnerability seem to have been increased in our societies. We consider collecting, processing, evaluating, sense making, sharing, and communicating information in dynamically changing disaster environments a relevant and timely research theme for national and global research.



Prior multi-disciplinary research on disaster prevention and disaster mitigation has shown that ICT play increasingly important roles in all phases of a comprehensive disaster management cycle: disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. Particularly, advanced ICT have enabled government agencies and non-profit organizations to mobilize agile and flexible disaster response and recovery operations in dynamically changing disaster situations. More recently, social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogs, also have enabled citizens and communities to actively engage with government in disaster management through crowdsourcing of local disaster information. Despite these ICT-enabled recent advances in our societies, the growing social and technological interdependence and the resultant complexity have exposed citizens, communities, and governments to a new level of vulnerability to the impacts of natural hazards such as sustained large-area power failures and impaired critical infrastructures, resulting in a breakdown of communication in the
aftermath of a disaster, a lack of actionable information, and an information chaos or black hole.  This E-Government Minitrack contributes to the critical discourse in the HICSS community about roles of ICT as central information infrastructures in disaster management and their public policy implications for building resilient society.
Papers are invited that deal with any aspect of the analysis, design, development, deployment, implementation, integration, operation, use or evaluation of ICT for any phase of the comprehensive disaster management cycle. Authors may focus on the tools, functionalities, and/or interfaces that support human actors in disaster management. Also, the specific organizational and social challenges in the context of emergency and disaster management are of particular interest. Questions include the use of advanced ICT, including ubiquitous mobile systems, social media channels, and smart phones BYOD to cope with the aforementioned challenges. We invite papers including but not limited to:

• Theoretical foundations and research methods in ICT-enabled disaster management
• Early warning systems
• Geographic information systems (GIS) and Global positioning systems (GPS) in disaster management
• Roles of ICT, mobile systems, and social media as information infrastructures in disaster management
• Challenges in ICT-enabled crisis/disaster/catastrophe operations and logistics management, including critical
success and/or failure factors and case studies / lessons learned
• Crisis/disaster-related education and training
• ICT-enabled detection of socio-technological and socio-economic vulnerability
• Resilience and robustness of information infrastructures in extreme events and vulnerability of ICT
• Social networking, social media, and collaborative systems in disaster management
• Crowdsourcing for enhanced disaster situational awareness, citizen engagement and public value creation
• Information quality and cross-agency disaster information sharing
• ICT to facilitate cross-sector collaboration and interoperation to manage emergent  disaster dynamics
• Integration and interoperation of information systems in crises/disasters/extreme events
• Human and organizational information behavior in crises/disasters and their implications for human-centered design

Best papers will be considered for publication in the Special Issue on "Disaster Management Innovation through
Advanced ICT" in the International Journal of Public Administration in the Digital Age (Chris Reddick, Editor-in-Chief).Hans Jochen Scholl (The Information School at the University of Washington, USA) and Akemi Takeoka Chatfield (Faculty of Informatics at the University of Wollongong, Australia) serve as guest co-editors for the
Special Issue.



Co-Chairs

Dr. Akemi Takeoka Chatfield (Primary Contact)
Director, E-Government & E-Governance Research Center/Disaster Informatics
Faculty of Informatics
University of Wollongong
Wollongong, NSW 2522
Australia
Phone:
+61 2 4221 3884
Fax:
+61 2 4221 4045
Email: akemi at uow.edu.au<mailto:akemi at uow.edu.au>

Dr. Jose J. Gonzalez
Professor dr. techn., dr. rer. nat.
University of Agder
Centre for Integrated Emergency Management
Service Box 509
NO-4898 Grimstad
Norway
Email: josejg at uia.no<mailto:josejg at uia.no>
Ph.: +47-37233240

Dr. Tina Comes
Associate professor dr. pol.
University of Agder
Centre for Integrated Emergency Management
Service Box 509
NO-4898 Grimstad
Norway
Email: martina.comes at uia.no<mailto:martina.comes at uia.no>
Ph.: +47-38141000

Mahalo!

Akemi Takeoka Chatfield, MBA, Ph.D.
チャトフィールド竹岡昭美理学博士
Director, Electronic Government & E-Governance Research Center/Disaster Informatics
センター所長, 電子政府.電子ガバナンス研究センター/自然災害インフォマティクス
Senior Lecturer in IT
School of Information Systems and Technology
Faculty of Informatics
University of Wollongong
Wollongong NSW 2522
Australia
Office: 61 2 4221 3884
Email: akemi at uow.edu.au<mailto:akemi at uow.edu.au>
Skype: akemi.chatfield

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