A5054394064- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Educational Games and Gamification
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
- Software Engineering Techniques and Practices
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- E-Government and Public Services
- Disaster Response and Management
- Infrastructure Resilience and Vulnerability Analysis
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Digital Games and Media
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
- Software System Performance and Reliability
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Data Quality and Management
- Facility Location and Emergency Management
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Information and Cyber Security
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies
Tilburg University
2014-2023
Delft University of Technology
2017-2020
Policy Analysis (United States)
2018
New information and communication technologies (ICT) have enabled communities to collect share tap into a network of peers in unprecedented ways. For more than decade, has been recognized as vital part disaster relief, recently ICTs described improve the resilience disaster-ridden societies. At same time, humanitarian turn towards technology also entails increasing remote management centralization. This paper highlights social justice concerns critically reviews role potential an enabler...
Traditionally, disaster management information systems have been designed to facilitate communication and coordination along stable hierarchical lines roles. However, support in response, need cater for the emerging roles, responsibilities needs of actors, often referred as self-organization. To address this challenge, paper proposes a framework that embraces an actor-centered perspective explicitly The is validated (i) analyze current practice management, including way changes occur through...
The response to the Level 3 disaster of Typhoon Haiyan in Philippines involved a large number organizations providing assistance and support. Coordination structures between variety international national organizations, government military were established at national, provincial local levels. These coordination efforts accompanied by significant information management effort, including needs assessment affected population monitoring evaluation regarding provided. This paper presents...
The Horizon 2020 interim evaluation (2017) indicates a steep increase in citizen engagement European Union Citizen Science (CS) projects, with less than 1% budgetary terms and minimal influence. Research findings attribute weak CS influence to the restriction of actions data collection, or no co-design, co-creation, analysis, elucidation results. We design participatory GIS methodology aimed at engaging citizens entire Earth Observation (EO) project cycle. also seeks address previous...
Emerging technologies provide new opportunities to humanitarian organizations for enhancing their response crisis situations. Since the 2010 Haiti Earthquake, online volunteer communities have been activated gather data and generate information products improve organizations' situational awareness decision making. However, how what extent these influence operations organizational routines of is a matter considerable debate. In this paper we introduce an evaluation method determine impact...
Social media has become an important factor in crisis response. From improved situational awareness to facilitating communications, it supports responders more effective handling. also enables affected communities express their needs and others respond directly. At the same time social poses challenges for responders, handling communications or data overload. To aid professionals leveraging potential overcome challenges, a better understanding of as integrated part response operation is...
Global profusion of information technology has spawned a large and varied number tools systems to aid disaster responders in managing disaster-related information. To adequately study the conception, development deployment such systems, user operational context which tasks are performed play central role. As natural disasters however happen unexpectedly, often occur remote areas always impose working conditions high time pressure situational volatility, involvement is difficult achieve for...
Simulation exercises are fundamental for building knowledge, skills and capacities of participants to effectively address challenges in crisis management. A key element emergency response the work with information support decision-making processes. However, not only exercise dealing management (IM), but those controlling directing as well. Dynamic environments require IM -for directors- optimize training opportunities. Despite common challenges, activities directors have so far been...
With ongoing research, increased information sharing and knowledge exchange, humanitarian organizations have an increasing amount of evidence at their disposal to support decisions. Nevertheless, effectively building decisions on the insights remains challenging. At individual, organizational, environmental levels, various factors influence use in decision-making process. This research examined these specifically a case-study WASH interventions Uganda. Interviewees reported several that...
Crisis responders are increasingly using social media, data and other digital sources of information to build a situational understanding crisis situation in order design an effective response. However with the increased availability such data, challenge identifying relevant from it also increases. This paper presents successful automatic approach handling this problem. Messages filtered for informativeness based on definition concept drawn prior research response experts. Informative...
Crises are destabilising, and crisis exercises one of the core ways that organisations governments prepare. Not all achieve their goals, determining how to design them well is difficult test experimentally. This study aims identify i) key goals discussion-based exercises, ii) what features delivery important for achieving iii) common mistakes. We used a three-round Delphi Method harness collective expertise diverse range 16 researchers professionals. In first round, experts identified 40...