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<b><i><span style="font-size:14pt">ISCRAM2011</span></i></b></p><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">The 8<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Information Systems for</span></h1>
<h2 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt">Crisis Response and Management</span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;text-align:center">
<b><span style="font-size:14pt">"From early-warning systems to preparedness and training"</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt"></span></b></p><h2><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt"> </span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">Lisbon, Portugal, May 8-11, 2011</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14pt"></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://www.iscram.org/" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">http://www.iscram.org</a></span></b></p>
<h1><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"> </span></h1><h1><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"> </span></h1><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16pt">TRACK: </span><span style="font-size:16pt">SOCIAL MEDIA AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16pt"></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> </p><h1 align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt">CALL FOR PAPERS AND SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS</span></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><b><span style="font-size:10pt">Introduction of the track</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-size:10pt">The convergence of information and communication technologies, the growth of the Internet including the mobile Internet, and the advent of technologies known under the general heading of Web 2.0 have all contributed to our ability to collaborate over great distances, both synchronously and asynchronously.<span> </span>Our aim in this track is to explore how these new approaches to and support for collaboration can help in crisis management and response.<span> </span>How might such collaboration technologies help:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">preparation for disasters?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:43.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">the crisis management team in their decision making on the handling the event?<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:43.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">the crisis management team in their interactions with a wide range of responders, government bodies, various publics and stakeholders and, of course, the victims and their families?<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:43.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">all parties build a picture and share information about a developing crisis?<b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:43.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">widen the range of stakeholders who can join fully in handling the crisis and recovery?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:43.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">involve communities fully during the recovery phase to rebuild and return to normality?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:43.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt">communities to work together, alongside but independently of government and non-governmental agencies, to inform and help themselves, co-ordinating citizen-led efforts?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:43.5pt"><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt">virtual teams and virtual communities develop processes and software for emergency management and recovery?</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt">Track topics</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Papers are invited that provide rich description and/or evaluation of the actual use of novel web based and other systems for collaboration and/or widespread participation in any phase of emergency management, from initial planning and preparedness, through detection, response, and recovery phases.<span> </span>This might include, among others:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Studies of the use of virtual teams or virtual communities or “social software” (e.g., social networking sites, knowledge gathering<span> </span>systems such as Wikimapia) in the design or use of emergency management information systems, with data collection methods ranging from laboratory or field experiments to qualitative case studies.</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Exploration and assessment of any problems that occur when virtual or partially distributed teams or the general public use information technology to coordinate disaster management related tasks, and how can they be resolved. <span> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Assessment of the advantages of collaborative systems compared to closed “command and control” systems created for ‘official’ involvement only.</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Investigations of the role these sorts of forums could have in future disaster preparation and response. How could their efforts be better facilitated? What socio-technical conditions should be in place to make them most beneficial?</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Behavioral studies of collaboration which have implications for the use of networking and web technologies in crisis response and management, including experimental studies.</span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt">Track co-chairs</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><i><span style="font-size:10pt">- <span> </span></span></i><span style="font-size:10pt">Starr Roxanne Hiltz,<span> NJIT</span><i></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span> </span>Linda Plotnick, Jacksonville State U., USA</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
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<i><span style="font-size:10pt">- <span> </span></span></i><span style="font-size:10pt">Starr Roxanne Hiltz,<span> NJIT</span><i></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10pt">Starr Roxanne Hiltz</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10pt">Paloma Diaz</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span lang="FR">Universidad Carlos III de Madrid</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span><a href="mailto:pdp@inf.uc3m.es" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">pdp@inf.uc3m.es</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Linda Plotnick</span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt">Jacksonville State University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">
<span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:lplotnick@jsu.edu" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">lplotnick@jsu.edu</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;text-align:justify">
<b><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">Important Notice</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">:</span></p>
<ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">All Special Session proposals must be formatted according to the ISCRAM 2010 formatting guidelines. Special Session proposal templates are published on <a href="http://www.iscram.org/" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">www.iscram.org</a>.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:15px;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial">All Special Session proposal must be submitted through the ISCRAM 2011 conference paper submission web page at<a href="http://www.conftool.com/iscram2011" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">www.conftool.com/iscram2011</a> Instructions for the ConfTool system can be found on <a href="http://www.iscram.org/" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">www.iscram.org</a>.</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt">About ISCRAM</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt">:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:10pt">The ISCRAM Community is a worldwide community of</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:black;background-color:white;background-repeat:initial initial"> researchers, scholars, teachers, students, practitioners and policy makers interested or actively involved in the subject of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. At its annual international conference alternating between the US and Europe, the ISCRAM Community gathers to present and discuss the latest research and developments in this growing area during an interactive and stimulating 3 day program. The ISCRAM Community also organizes an International Summer School for PhD students and ISCRAM-CHINA, an annual conference for ISCRAM research in China. All information on ISCRAM can be found at <a href="http://www.iscram.org/" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank"><span>http://www.iscram.org</span></a></span></p>
<p><span>Important dates</span><br><strong>01 October 2010</strong><br><span><a href="http://iscram2011.lnec.pt/text/important_dates.html" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Submission of proposals for panels and other special sessions</a></span></p>
<p><strong>01 November 2010</strong><br><a href="http://iscram2011.lnec.pt/text/important_dates.html" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Notification of acceptance for panels and other special sessions</a></p>
<p><strong>15 November 2010</strong><br><a href="http://iscram2011.lnec.pt/text/important_dates.html" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Submission of full research papers</a></p><p><strong>15 December 2010</strong><br>
<a href="http://iscram2011.lnec.pt/text/important_dates.html" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Submission of work-in-progress papers and practitioner papers</a></p><p><strong>Mid January 2011</strong><br><a href="http://iscram2011.lnec.pt/text/important_dates.html" style="color:rgb(0, 0, 204)" target="_blank">Notification of acceptance for full research papers</a></p>
</span><br>-- <br>Linda Plotnick, Ph.D.<br>Assistant Professor <br>Computer Information Science<br>Jacksonville State University<br><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/LindaPlotnick" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/LindaPlotnick</a><br>