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Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery (2007)

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Suggested Citation:"D Speakers and Participants at Meetings and Site Visits." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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Speakers and Participants at Meetings and Site Visits

Although the briefers listed below provided much useful information of various kinds to the Committee on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management, they were not asked to endorse the conclusions or recommendations of this study, nor did they see the final draft of this report before its release.

SEPTEMBER 20-21, 2005

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Briefers at Meetings:


Alok Chaturvedi, Purdue University

Louise Comfort, University of Pittsburgh

Kenneth Mandl, Harvard Medical School

Charles Werner, Charlottesville (Virginia) Fire Department


Site Visit:


Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) Public Safety Integration Center, hosted by James Morentz, SAIC

Suggested Citation:"D Speakers and Participants at Meetings and Site Visits." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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DECEMBER 12-13, 2005

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

Briefers at Meetings:


Mark Koro, Qualcomm

Leslie Lenert, University of California, San Diego

Bill Owens, Nortel Networks (retired)

Pam Scanlon, Automated Regional Justice Information System

Christian Sloane, University of California, San Diego Medical Center


Site Visits:


San Diego Police Department Disaster Operation Center

City of San Diego Emergency Operation Center

San Diego County Disaster Operation Center

San Diego SWAT Demonstration

MAY 1, 2006

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Briefers at Meetings:


Tom Coty, Homeland Security Institute

Felix Demicco, Office of Critical Infrastructure—Office of the Prosecutor, Morris County, New Jersey

Christopher Kojm, 9/11 Public Discourse Project and Deputy Director, 9/11 Commission

Dereck Orr, Public Safety Communications Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Florence Reichenberg, Morris County, New Jersey, Chamber of Commerce

Havidán Rodriguez, Disaster Research Center, University of Delaware

Suggested Citation:"D Speakers and Participants at Meetings and Site Visits." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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Suggested Citation:"D Speakers and Participants at Meetings and Site Visits." National Research Council. 2007. Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11824.
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Information technology (IT) has the potential to play a critical role in managing natural and human-made disasters. Damage to communications infrastructure, along with other communications problems exacerbated the difficulties in carrying out response and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. To assist government planning in this area, the Congress, in the E-government Act of 2002, directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to request the NRC to conduct a study on the application of IT to disaster management. This report characterizes disaster management providing a framework for considering the range and nature of information and communication needs; presents a vision of the potential for IT to improve disaster management; provides an analysis of structural, organizational, and other non-technical barriers to the acquisition, adoption, and effective use of IT in disaster; and offers an outline of a research program aimed at strengthening IT-enabled capabilities for disaster management.

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