<p class="MsoNormal" style="PAGE-BREAK-BEFORE: always; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together" align="center"><b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-font-kerning: .5pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">ISCRAM 2011</font></font></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><b><span style="COLOR: #ff8000; mso-fareast-font-family: Bliss2-Bold; mso-font-kerning: .5pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">From early-warning systems to preparedness and training</font></span></b><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-font-kerning: .5pt"><br>
<font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">8th International Conference on<br>Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management</font></font></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: center; mso-pagination: widow-orphan lines-together" align="center"><b><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-font-kerning: .5pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">May 8-11 2011<br>
LNEC Congress Centre<br>Lisbon, Portugal<br><a href="http://iscram2011.lnec.pt">http://iscram2011.lnec.pt</a></font></font></span></b></p>
<h1 style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.3in; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">TRACK: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">SOCIAL MEDIA AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"></span></h1>
<p class="Heading3nonum" style="MARGIN: 0.25in 0in 6pt 0.3in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.3in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><strong>Introduction of the track</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">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 style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </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 style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>How might such collaboration technologies help:</font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 43.5pt; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 43.5pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">preparation for disasters?</font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 43.5pt; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 43.5pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">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></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 43.5pt; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 43.5pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">widen the range of stakeholders who can join fully in handling the crisis and recovery?</font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 43.5pt; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 43.5pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">involve communities fully during the recovery phase to rebuild and return to normality?</font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 43.5pt; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 43.5pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">communities to work together, alongside but independently of government and non-governmental agencies, to inform and help themselves, co-ordinating citizen-led efforts?</font></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 43.5pt; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo3; tab-stops: list 43.5pt"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">·</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">virtual teams and virtual communities develop processes and software for emergency management and recovery?<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></span></font></font></p>
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<p class="Heading3nonum" style="MARGIN: 0.25in 0in 6pt 0.3in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.3in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><strong>Track topics</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">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 style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This might include, among others:</font></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Studies of the use of virtual teams or virtual communities or “social software” (e.g., social networking sites, knowledge gathering<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </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 style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></span></font></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">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 style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></span></font></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Assessment of the advantages of collaborative systems compared to closed “command and control” systems created for ‘official’ involvement only.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></span></font></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">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 style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></span></font></font></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo4; tab-stops: list .5in"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Behavioral studies of collaboration which have implications for the use of networking and web technologies in crisis response and management, including experimental studies.<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"></span></font></font></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR"><font face="Times New Roman">*Starr Roxanne Hiltz</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR"><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="mailto:Hiltz@njit.edu">Hiltz@njit.edu</a></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span lang="FR" style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: FR"><font face="Times New Roman">Paloma Diaz</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><span lang="FR" style="COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: FR"><font face="Times New Roman">Universidad Carlos III de Madrid</font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><font face="Times New Roman">Linda Plotnick</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><font face="Times New Roman">Jacksonville State University</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">*Corresponding Chair</font></font></i></p>
<p class="Heading3nonum" style="PAGE-BREAK-BEFORE: always; MARGIN: 6pt 0in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><strong>Types of Submissions</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">ISCRAM 2011 is soliciting three types of submission:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: list .25in"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">1.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><font size="3"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Full research papers</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, which will be double-blind peer-reviewed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is intended that these will report completed work which can be assessed to the highest academic standards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Such papers should be no more than 10 pages with figures & tables (~5000 words)</span></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: list .25in"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">2.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><font size="3"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Work in progress papers</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, which will be subjected to a light peer review to ensure clarity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Such papers should be no more than 5 pages with figures & tables (~2500 words)</span></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-hyphenate: none; tab-stops: list .25in"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><span style="mso-list: Ignore"><font size="3">3.</font><span style="FONT: 7pt 'Times New Roman'"> </span></span></span><font size="3"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">Practitioner papers</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">, which will be subjected to a light peer review to ensure clarity and should be no more than 5 pages with figures & tables (~2500 words)</span></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Batang; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Note that the type of the paper will be indicated in the conference proceedings, along with a description of the reviewing process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font></span></p>
<p class="Heading3nonum" style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><strong>Paper Submission Process and Deadlines</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 12pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">Submitted papers must conform to the ISCRAM<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>guidelines for submission, available at <a href="http://iscram2011.lnec.pt/">http://iscram2011.lnec.pt/</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Submissions must be made online at </font></span></b><a href="http://www.conftool.com/iscram2011"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">www.conftool.com/iscram2011</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> by</span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial"> 15 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">November 2010 (for full research papers) or 15 December 2010 (for work in progress and discussion papers).</b></span></font></font></p>
<p class="Heading3nonum" style="MARGIN: 0.25in 0in 6pt 0.3in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.3in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><strong>Schedule of Important Dates</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">01 October 2010 - Submission of proposals for panels and other special sessions </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">01 November - Notification of acceptance for panels and other special sessions</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">15 November 2010 - Submission of full research papers</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">15 December 2010 - Submission of work-in-progress papers and practitioner papers</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">Mid January 2011 - Notification of acceptance for full research papers </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">End January 2011 - Notification of acceptance for work-in-progress and practitioner papers</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">15 January 2011 - Submission of proposals for demonstrations</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">01 February 2011 - Submission of applications for Doctoral Colloquium</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">End February 2011 - Submission of revised, camera-ready full research papers; notification of acceptance for Doctoral Colloquium and demonstrations</font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">18 March 2011 - Deadline for early registration</font></p>
<p class="Heading3nonum" style="MARGIN: 0.25in 0in 6pt 0.3in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.3in"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><strong>About ISCRAM:</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 6pt"><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB">The ISCRAM Community is a worldwide network of 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 (which alternates between US and European locations), the ISCRAM Community gathers to present and discuss the latest research and developments in this growing area during an interactive and stimulating three-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. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Full<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> information on ISCRAM can be found at </span></font></font><a href="http://www.iscram.org/"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">www.iscram.org</font></a><font size="3"><font face="Times New Roman">.<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB"> </span></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font></p><br clear="all"><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">http://sites.google.com/site/LindaPlotnick</a><br>