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2009 Summer School: Call for Participants
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Written by Bartel Van de Walle
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Monday, 20 April 2009
Application Deadline Extension: May 31, 2009
Download the full Call for Participants (PDF) here .
Spread the news: the ISCRAM Summer School is back! The 3rd edition of the international ISCRAM summer school invites PhD students for an interactive exploration of new technologies for citizen participation in crisis response and management.
PhD students from all over the world are invited to apply and join us in Tilburg (the Netherlands) from August 20-29 2009 for an exciting week of in-depth lectures, case workshops, dinner talks, and interesting excursions.
All lectures are taught by well-known international experts in the areas of crisis management and information systems. The students work in small groups and interact with the experts throughout the Summer School.
Application Deadline is May 10 2009.
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ISCRAM2009 is now over - look at ISCRAM Live for full coverage
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Written by Bartel Van de Walle
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Thursday, 14 May 2009
ISCRAM2009 is now over - and it sure was a great conference, thanks to an amazing local organizing team and every single participant, author and presenter at the meeting! Thank you all very much!
We have done our best to capture as much as possible from the conference: papers, presentations, videos, tweets, reports, and hundreds of pictures - check out our ISCRAM Live website
See you all in Seattle for ISCRAM2010!
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Written by Bartel Van de Walle
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Thursday, 14 May 2009
ISCRAM2010
7th International Conference on
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
May 2-5, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Seattle Washington USA
Plans for ISCRAM2010 are underway, much further underway than we have been in previous years. So expect a call for sessions and events within a month. Note that submission dates relative to the conference dates will be much earlier than has been traditional. For the conference itself, put the dates May 2nd to 5th, 2010, in your diary now, and please send us ideas to help shape ISCRAM2010 into the best ISCRAM conference yet. ISCRAM2010 will be built around all the themes and activities that have been the hallmark of ISCRAM conferences to date, but we need to evolve them to give you the conference that you want and need.
Rough Schedule of Important Dates
The ISCRAM association is young - its first elected Board barely formed. Thus, although we have some very well advanced ideas of what ISCRAM2010 should look like, we need to involve the Board - and you! - in planning the event. So the dates below are rough, but they should serve to set expectations. And they warn that the key dates for submission will be advanced compared to those in previous years.
- End May 2009 Ideas and suggestions for the general structure of ISCRAM2010. What has worked well until now? What has worked less well, and what other types of event and activity would you like? Send suggestions to iscram2010@iscram.org.
- End July 2009 Proposals for special events due (special sessions, special events, workshops, tutorials)
- Mid-Nov 2009 Mature work due (full papers and presentations)
- Mid-Jan 2010 Work in progress, demos and posters due
- End Feb 2010 Closing date for applications for doctoral consortium and any workshops or tutorials which require separate registration and pre-event communications
- Mar 21 2010 Early registration deadline
- May 2-5 2010 ISCRAM2010 conference
Details of ISCRAM2010, as they become available, will be published on www.iscram.org and disseminated through its discussion list.
We look forward to seeing you in Seattle!
Mark Haselkorn, Conference Chair (markh@u.washington.edu)
Simon French, Programme Chair (simon.french@mbs.ac.uk)
and the ISCRAM Board of Directors
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ISCRAM2009 Best Paper Award Winners
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Written by Bartel Van de Walle
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Friday, 15 May 2009
ISCRAM2009 Best Paper Award Winners
Winner Mike Meleshkin Award for the best student paper: Nitesh Bharosa (Delft University of Technology), paper co-authored by Marijn Janssen
Paper: Reconsidering information management roles and capabilities in disaster response decision-making units
Comments from the Award committee (Sophia Liu, Simon French, Theresa Jefferson, Bartel Van de Walle, Frank Fiedrich)
In his paper Nitesh adopts a theory-driven approach to develop a set of information management roles and dynamic capabilities for disaster management. Building on the principles of advance structuring and dynamic adjustment, Nitesh and his co-author develop a set of roles and capabilities, which are then illustrated and extended using two field studies in the Netherlands. The paper is important because it addresses a very important issue: what are essential characteristics of information systems in our domain? The paper provides a thorough assessment for why information systems need to facilitate adaptivity and it provides a good balance between theory and empirical evidence from field studies. The paper also includes a critical reflection and takes a multidisciplinary perspective and we believe it has the potential to advance this field.
Winners ISCRAM2009 Best Paper Award: Zeno E. Franco, Nina Zumel, John Holman, Kathy Blau, Larry E. Beutler (from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology and Quimba Software)
Paper: Evaluating the Impact of Improvisation on the Incident Command System: A Modified Single Case Study using the DDD Simulator
Comments of the committee (David Mendonca, Tim Grant, Jack Harrald, Kees Nieuwenhuis, Frank Fiedrich)
This multidisplinary paper evaluates the utility of the Incident Command System (ICS) in varying disaster contexts. As many of you know ICS is mandated in the United States to be used during incident and disaster response. The authors address important theoretical issues - namely information processing and improvisation - with a clear impact on information systems for crisis management in a real-world context. The paper gives a sound and convincing rationale in developing its ideas. Improvisation is operationalised for simulation by grounding in previous research. The paper is well structured and written, with a clear and concise presentation of the research questions, the used methods and the analysis. It reflects on the results, and explicitly identifies its limitations and the further research needed.
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ISCRAM Board Elections outcome
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Written by Bartel Van de Walle
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Thursday, 14 May 2009
ISCRAM ASSOCIATION Elected Board Members
The election process for ISCRAM Board membership is now completed. The election was organised in two phases: an internet based voting on Friday May 8th and Saturday May 9th and a paper based voting during the General Assembly on Tuesday, May 12th 2009, at the ISCRAM2009 Conference Venue, University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law, Malmstensalen, at Vasagatan 1, Gothenburg (Sweden).
The votes have now been counted, and the following ISCRAM members were elected as Board Member (in alphabetical order). Click on the name of the board member for more information: the board member's short bio, prior ISCRAM experiences and contributions, and his or her ambitions and plans as a board member.
In the future, ISCRAM board members will be elected for a two year mandate, but this year, at the start of the association, half of the board members will take only a one year mandate. So from next year on, beginning with the conference in Seattle, half of the board member seats will again be open for new elections.
We thank all candidates for their participation in the election, and hope that this election will be a first in a long list of true elections in the ISCRAM community.
Benny Carlé and Kees Nieuwenhuis
ISCRAM Election Committee
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