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Written by Bartel Van de Walle
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010
ISCRAM2010
Defining Crisis Management 3.0
7th International Conference on
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
May 2-5, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Seattle Washington USA
ISCRAM2010 Dedicated Website now open!
Dear ISCRAM 2010 Community,
The public site for ISCRAM 2010 is now open at http://www.iscram.org/iscram2010
From this site you can track evolving information on the conference, register (through a link to conftool), and reserve your room at the conference hotel, the Crowne Plaza in downtown Seattle. All official conference activities will take place at the Crowne Plaza, and we have secured excellent rates for the location and quality. Rooms are limited, so consider booking as soon as possible. Early conference registration will be in effect through February 15th, 2010.
The program committee is busy putting together what will certainly be an exciting and impactful set of research papers, practitioner reports, works in progress and demonstrations. It will be a major event, both intellectual and social, that you won't want to miss. (Speaking of social, be sure to sign up for the banquet too.)
We look forward to seeing all of you in Seattle in May 2 - 5.
Best Regards,
The 2010 ISCRAM Conference Committee
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ISCRAM2010: Submission of work-in-progress papers, discussion papers and practitioner reports
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Written by Bartel Van de Walle
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Saturday, 16 January 2010
ISCRAM2010: 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
DEFINING CRISIS MANAGEMENT 3.0
May 2-5 2010
Crown Plaza Hotel
Seattle, Washington USA
We recognise that the dreadful earthquake in Haiti requires the attention of many ISCRAM participants who would be submitting papers by the final deadline of Monday 18th January. In consequence we are extending the deadline for submission of work-in-progress papers, discussion papers and practitioner reports by a week until January 25th.
We also recognise that even this may be too tight for some people deployed to deal with the Haitian crisis. If you really are unable to meet the new deadline because of this, please email iscram2010@iscram.org explaining the situation and we will do our utmost to allow an even later submission.
Details of the conference are available at www.iscram.org/iscram2010
Mark Haselkorn, Conference Chair
Simon French, Programme Chair
Brian Tomaszewski, Program co-Chair
MORE INFORMATION:
ISCRAM Community and ISCRAM2010 Website
ISCRAM group on Facebook
Email: iscram2010@iscram.org
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Haiti Earthquake - ISCRAM Live
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Written by Bartel Van de Walle
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Saturday, 16 January 2010
Many people have been wondering what ISCRAM is doing regarding the horrific situation in Haiti. The answer is that we are working out what we can do.
We are not a direct response organization. Our primary role is to change the future of crisis management rather than the present. We hope that the enormous efforts the ISCRAM community has devoted toward this end over the past seven years are now bearing fruit and are helping to save lives and relieve suffering.
However, we are not immune to wanting to have a more tangible and direct effect where possible, and, as a very young organization, are grappling with the question of what we might do to support the immediate situation in Haiti as well as the broader question of what our role can and should be with respect in catastrophic events. Our community offers formidable resources:brains, knowledge and extensive professional networks. But it is not obvious how these are mobilized in a meaningful and systematic way.
We will be opening a conversation on this broader question within the community, and will take it up at the upcoming conference in May. In the meantime, we welcome ideas and suggestions on how we might contribute to the present situation (bearing in mind that a complaint or suggestion is an act of volunteering; we have no spare 'they's lying about, you is both 'we' and 'they').
In the meantime, we recognize that one of our responsibilities as an organization is to enable our community members to contribute to the response, so will be extending the Short Paper and Practitioner Report deadline for ISCRAM2010. Please look for an announcement from Simon French, the Program Chair, for further details.
We have also established a page on ISCRAM Live so that you may follow and report on ISCRAM-related Haiti activities: ISCRAM Live Haiti, please use the tag #iscramhaiti in your tweets, blogs, flickr uploads, etc.
We also encourage everyone make use of the extensive ISCRAM network through our Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter feeds.
With our sincere gratitude and thankful recognition to those of our community members who are actively engaged in response efforts, those who are supporting the response in indirect ways, and those whose past efforts are now bearing fruit.
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Join the ISCRAM Association as a new member in 2010
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Written by Bartel Van de Walle
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Monday, 20 April 2009
BEST WISHES AND A PERSONAL INVITATION TO BECOME AN ISCRAM MEMBER IN 2010
ISCRAM has been on quite an extraordinary journey since May 2004, when a group of researchers active in the then newly termed "ISCRAM" domain gathered for the first time in Brussels. We have since organized conferences annually in 7 other cities in Europe, the USA and China, attracting an increasingly diverse crowd of researchers and practitioners with a variety of interests, experiences and expertise.
The ISCRAM Community has continued to grow and mature over these past five years, to finally become a formal international non-profit organization at the 2009 Gothenburg Conference.
Quite probably, you have been an active part of this journey. Perhaps you attended a previous summer school in Tilburg, or you submitted and presented your work at one of our conferences in Brussels, Delft, Gothenburg, Newark, Washington or Harbin, or you contributed to the special editions of journals or books that have followed from these events. If that was the case, we thank you for that - without the contribution and commitment from you and many others, there would quite simply not be an ISCRAM community. If you were not involved with ISCRAM before, we do hope you will be soon and we will be glad to welcome you at one of our forthcoming activities.
Whether you are an 'old' ISCRAM friend or you just got to know us, I do write you this letter to ask you to join us in this new and crucial phase of the ISCRAM community, and become a regular member of the newly established ISCRAM Association. Below you will find more information on what this membership can offer you: reduced registration fees for the conference, summer school or IJISCRAM journal but above all the knowledge of becoming part of this vibrant and welcoming global community.
I am therefore looking forward to welcoming you as a 2010-member of the ISCRAM Association, and I hope to be able to meeting you soon.
Warm regards,
Bartel Van de Walle - Chairman of the ISCRAM Association Board
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION PROCESS
STEP 1: Provide us with your contact details
Provide join the ISCRAM Association
by clicking on this link to provide us with your contact details
STEP 2: Pay your membership fee using Paypal or Wired Transfer
Please consult the 2010 fees and benefits for individual and associated membership by clicking on this link .
2.1. Pay using PayPal
PayPal is a trusted financial company that facilitates the transfer of money between people and businesses online.
Users only need to share private financial information with PayPal, not unknown parties. To pay your membership via PayPal you will need
1. a (free) PayPal account
2. Fill your Paypal account or link your bank account / credit card
3. Initiate your payment
Further information on PayPal can be found on the companys web page at http://www.paypal.com. You can also find a lot of easy and understandable instructions on the web (for example here: http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-use-paypal-basics-and-beyond). Once you click select your type of membership and click the 'Pay now' button you will be redirected to the Paypal web site.
For your individual membership to the ISCRAM Association, please click here:
For your institutional membership membership to the ISCRAM Association, please click here:
2.2. Pay using Wired Transfer
You can also use wired transfer to pay your membership. Please use the following account information:
ISCRAM Association
IBAN code: BE82 8270 8520 2368, BIC Code: ETHIBEBB
Name of the bank: ETHIAS Bank. Address: Sterrenkundelaan 19, 1210 Brussels, Belgium
In the note section please write "ISCRAM 2010 membership" plus your name and date of birth (e.g. "ISCRAM 2010 membership, Joe Shmoe 01/01/2000") and send your full contact information to iscramsecretary@iscram.org..Please note that your bank may charge you additional fees for executing this transfer.
STEP 3. As soon as we receive your payment, we will be glad to send you welcome letter with your membership ID and additional information.
Questions? Contact us at iscramhelp@iscram.org
Thank you for joining the ISCRAM Association!
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ISCRAM2010 - Update December 2009
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Written by Bartel Van de Walle
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Sunday, 06 December 2009
ISCRAM2010
Defining Crisis Management 3.0
7th International Conference on
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
May 2-5, 2010
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Seattle Washington USA
DECEMBER 2009 UPDATE
Submission of work-in-progress, discussions, and practitioner papers remain open until January 18th 2010, but submission of full research papers is now closed.
ISCRAM is aware that it serves a wide community of different disciplines spanning both academic and practitioner interests so our conferences accept a wide range of types of submission. When submission of full research papers closed at the end of November, over 80 papers had been submitted and these are now going through full double-blind, academic peer review. ISCRAM conferences are much more than presentations of research results. They are full of vibrant discussion and networking opportunities.
We are still seeking three types of submission to stimulate discussion, focus on practitioner needs and priorities and explore research still in progress:
ISCRAM2010 is still soliciting three types of submission:
1. Work in progress and discussion papers.
2. Practitioner reports and discussions which raise issues, examples and case studies, examples of best practices, improvements, and significant insights or examples.
3. Demonstrations.
We welcome any such submissions in any of our tracks and sessions.
The full call for papers is available here .
Specific calls for our tracks and sessions are available:
In addition there will be a special track organised by the University of Washington Conference on Safety and Security Education & Research (SASER):
- Safety and Security Education (SASER). The objectives of SASER are to create a community dialogue to explore research and education priorities for (regional) safety and security. Submissions relating to this objective sought. A specific call for this track is available here
There will also be a number of special sessions, including
Submission Process and Deadline
Submissions must be in the ISCRAM housestyle. Details of this and a Word template implementing it are available here.
Submission of work-in-progress, discussions, and practitioner papers remain open until January 18th 2010.
Submission of full research papers is now closed.
Submissions should be made through the ISCRAM2010 ConfTool online submission system at https://www.conftool.com/iscram2010/
Note that a guide for reviewers is available here. It also contains further information on the reviewing criteria for submissions.
Doctoral Colloquium
On Sunday May 2, 2010 there will be a doctoral colloquium. Full details are available here. Note that application is required.
Rough Schedule of Important Dates
Early Jan 2010: Acceptances or otherwise of full papers announced.
Jan 18, 2010: Submission of work in progress papers, demos and posters.
Early Feb 2010: Closing date for applications for doctoral consortium, and any workshops or tutorials which require separate registration and pre-event communications.
Mid Feb 2010: Acceptances or otherwise of work in progress papers, demos and posters announced. Notification of acceptance of places at doctoral consortium and other workshops with limited registration.
End Feb 2010: Final submission of all accepted papers, full, work in progress or practitioner reports, for inclusion in the proceedings. Note that by this date at least one of the authors of each paper will need to have registered.
Mar 21, 2010: Early registration deadline.
May 2-5, 2010: ISCRAM2010 conference.
Further details of ISCRAM2010, as they become clear, will be published on www.iscram.org and through its discussion and mailing lists.
We look forward to seeing you in Seattle
Mark Haselkorn, Conference Chair
Simon French, Programme Chair
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