My sincerest apologies for the late posting:
From the Woodrow Wilson Center for International
Scholars - Commons Lab: Kudos to Dr. Lea Shanley and her team!
The Commons Lab is hosting the
following symposium: “ Connecting Grassroots to Government for Disaster
Management,” being held here at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars. Please visit the center at www.wilsoncenter.org
Overview
By
harnessing the collective power of citizens and engaging communities in their
own response and recovery, new technologies and methods, like social media,
crowdsourcing, and “crowd-mapping,” have the potential to transform disaster
management. Yet many challenges – including characterization of reliability,
guidelines for use, and demonstration of value – must be addressed before
federal agencies can take full advantage of these approaches. Early uses of
social media and crowdsourcing methods in disasters have raised a number of
questions: Can citizens generate inputs to critical decisions faster and
perhaps more accurately than traditional methods? What is the research telling
us, and how are the best ideas being translated into practice? How have
agencies successfully navigated potential roadblocks to the use of
citizen-generated information, such as privacy and procurement or the Paperwork
Reduction Act? When and how is it possible to innovate through open and
participatory design with citizens and communities?
The
Commons Lab of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (The Wilson
Center), the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation, the
International Association for Information Systems for Crisis Response and
Management, ESRI, NetHope, and University of Colorado Boulder’s Project EPIC
are honored to host a policy roundtable titled, “Connecting Grassroots to
Government for Disaster Management.” In recognition of National Preparedness
month, this meeting will take place on September 13 and 14, 2012 in the 5th
floor Conference Room at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.
This
meeting will allow members of the research, practitioner, policy, and “digital
volunteer” communities to discuss the questions posed above and expand the
list, as needed. The objectives are to build a community of interest,
prioritize key issues, and identify possible solutions. On the first day of the
workshop we will showcase some of the new and innovative projects currently in
development by federal agencies, humanitarian and disaster management NGOs, and
others.
Several documents have been uploaded
for your perusal before discussions commence. To access these documents, please
visit http://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/webcast-day-1-connecting-grassroots-to-government-for-disaster-management-policy-roundtable
To follow the discussion via the web
To watch the live webcast of the Open
Innovation Keynote on Friday, September 14th at 1:00 PM US Eastern, please visit TechChange's DG2G Event Page
Follow the
live webcast discussion on Twitter using hashtag: #DG2G
Email your
questions for the panelists before and during the live webcast: DG2G [at] TechChange [dot] org
To watch
live webcasts of the other workshop sessions Sept 13-14, as well as
download copies of the agenda and background materials, please visit the Wilson Center's DG2G Event page
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