Meet us At These Events
DATE & TIME: Tuesday, October 6, 12:00-1:30 PM
LOCATION: Ash Center Foyer, Suite 200 North, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
Speakers will discuss the complex challenges of responding to the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe from several different perspectives, exploring its political context and ramifications, the European Union’s capacity to respond to emergencies within its own borders, the logistics involved in managing the flow of refugees across the continent, and the importance of information technology in shaping events and aiding the response.
Panelists include:
· Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
· Bartel Van De Walle, Visiting Scholar, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; and Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University (The Netherlands)
· Tina Comes, Visiting Scholar, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; and Associate Professor, Centre for Integrated Emergency Management, Department for ICT, University of Agder (Norway)
Moderated by Arnold Howitt, Executive Director of the Ash Center and Faculty Co-Director of the Program on Crisis Leadership.
Light lunch served.
Co-sponsored by Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Program on Crisis Leadership (Ash and Taubman Centers), the Crisis Management Student Group, and the European Club.
LOCATION: Ash Center Foyer, Suite 200 North, 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
Speakers will discuss the complex challenges of responding to the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe from several different perspectives, exploring its political context and ramifications, the European Union’s capacity to respond to emergencies within its own borders, the logistics involved in managing the flow of refugees across the continent, and the importance of information technology in shaping events and aiding the response.
Panelists include:
· Muriel Rouyer, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
· Bartel Van De Walle, Visiting Scholar, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; and Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University (The Netherlands)
· Tina Comes, Visiting Scholar, Program on Crisis Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; and Associate Professor, Centre for Integrated Emergency Management, Department for ICT, University of Agder (Norway)
Moderated by Arnold Howitt, Executive Director of the Ash Center and Faculty Co-Director of the Program on Crisis Leadership.
Light lunch served.
Co-sponsored by Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, the Program on Crisis Leadership (Ash and Taubman Centers), the Crisis Management Student Group, and the European Club.
The Refugee Crisis in Europe: The Challenges of Policy, Politics, and Logistics
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ISCRAM2015
Getting Ready for the Unexpected!
May 24-27, Kristiansand, Norway
Our home conference (quite literally...), will be really busy.
We will be presenting Long and Short papers on Coordination, Logistics in the Ebola response, Human Centred Design and Ethnographic Research. You can also meet us in the panels discussion Crisis Management Research on Monday (Tina), and Ebola on Wednesday (Bartel and Jonas). The full program is available on https://www.conftool.com/iscram2015/sessions.php.
The Decision Support Track with Tina and Matthieu has become one of the largest Tracks of the Conference, and we are happy that this track has received so much attention.
Hope that many of you come to join us in Norway!
Getting Ready for the Unexpected!
May 24-27, Kristiansand, Norway
Our home conference (quite literally...), will be really busy.
We will be presenting Long and Short papers on Coordination, Logistics in the Ebola response, Human Centred Design and Ethnographic Research. You can also meet us in the panels discussion Crisis Management Research on Monday (Tina), and Ebola on Wednesday (Bartel and Jonas). The full program is available on https://www.conftool.com/iscram2015/sessions.php.
The Decision Support Track with Tina and Matthieu has become one of the largest Tracks of the Conference, and we are happy that this track has received so much attention.
Hope that many of you come to join us in Norway!
HumTech2015
May12-14, Boston, USA
#WhatDoesItTake?
Keeping Syria on the Agenda!
The Nature of Information Management is the focus of our paper for the HumTech2015 Conference.
We provide a comparison between the complex setting in Syria and our experiences in the Philippines after Haiyan, along the dimensions of Humanitarian Information Management. We highlight the implications of information sensitivity and links to decision-making and coordination.
May12-14, Boston, USA
#WhatDoesItTake?
Keeping Syria on the Agenda!
The Nature of Information Management is the focus of our paper for the HumTech2015 Conference.
We provide a comparison between the complex setting in Syria and our experiences in the Philippines after Haiyan, along the dimensions of Humanitarian Information Management. We highlight the implications of information sensitivity and links to decision-making and coordination.
POMS2015
May 08-11 2015, Washington DC, USA
At the POMS 2015 Conference, we will present our work on Humanitarian Logistics in the context of the West Africa Ebola Outbreak, presenting two papers based on our Ebola field research highlighting the specifics of this very response, going beyond the typical response patterns for natural vs. sudden onset disasters. We report on the logistics challenges related to information sharing and coordination; access; volatile demand patterns; specific medical requirements.
In another paper we propose an approach to to mix case studies and quantitative models. This work addresses this problem by proposing a field-oriented research, which aims to model and analyze qualitatively and quantitatively the Value Stream of West African Ebola Crisis Management.
Hope to see you in Washington!
May 08-11 2015, Washington DC, USA
At the POMS 2015 Conference, we will present our work on Humanitarian Logistics in the context of the West Africa Ebola Outbreak, presenting two papers based on our Ebola field research highlighting the specifics of this very response, going beyond the typical response patterns for natural vs. sudden onset disasters. We report on the logistics challenges related to information sharing and coordination; access; volatile demand patterns; specific medical requirements.
In another paper we propose an approach to to mix case studies and quantitative models. This work addresses this problem by proposing a field-oriented research, which aims to model and analyze qualitatively and quantitatively the Value Stream of West African Ebola Crisis Management.
Hope to see you in Washington!
AAAI Spring Symposium
Structured Data for Humanitarian Technologies: Perfect Fit or Overkill? #SD4HumTech15
March 23-25, Palo Alto, USA
New technologies provide novel opportunities to manage disasters. This paradigm has been a driver, also for the DRL team. In our presentation on Bringing Structure to the Disaster Data Typhoon: an Analysis of Decision-Makers’ Information Needs in the Response to Haiyan, we argue for taking on a problem-centred perspective. Rather than collecting data and pushing it out in large data warehouses, we advocate providing decision support for dedicated problems.
Together with Olga Vybornova (UCL, Belgium), we are currently building the ontology suggested - and look forward to discussing potential implementation with you!
Structured Data for Humanitarian Technologies: Perfect Fit or Overkill? #SD4HumTech15
March 23-25, Palo Alto, USA
New technologies provide novel opportunities to manage disasters. This paradigm has been a driver, also for the DRL team. In our presentation on Bringing Structure to the Disaster Data Typhoon: an Analysis of Decision-Makers’ Information Needs in the Response to Haiyan, we argue for taking on a problem-centred perspective. Rather than collecting data and pushing it out in large data warehouses, we advocate providing decision support for dedicated problems.
Together with Olga Vybornova (UCL, Belgium), we are currently building the ontology suggested - and look forward to discussing potential implementation with you!