EBOLA OUTBREAK - 1st trip to the field - Disaster Resilience Lab

EBOLA OUTBREAK - 1st trip to the field

12/5/2014

Tina and Bartel are leaving this sunday to Accra, Ghana, where the hub the for coordinating Ebola operations in the West African sub-regionare is stablished.
The DRL team will to spend one week in the country, to meet practitionners from different relief organizations and agencies, and start the field exploration.

Jonas Landgren, Matthieu Lauras and Laura Laguna will support the field team work remotely.

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Bartel Van de Walle has worked on the virtuous circle of sensemaking and decisions in crisis management. For the past 20 years he has worked on information systems for better crisis response in the field and as an associate professor at Tilburg University.

Tina Comes develops systems and tools to support decision makers dealing with complexity and uncertainty. Her work as Associate Professor in ICT at the University of Agder aims at bridging the gap between technology and users.

Together, we are working on improving disaster resilience, since the ability to prepare for, manage and learn from risks and crises has become a prerequisite for sustainable growth in an increasingly complex, uncertain and dynamically evolving world.

EBOLA OUTBREAK - 1st trip to the field

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