A global collaboration to deploy help to China

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 142-149

  Morelli, Ralph ^a   De Silva, Chamindra ^b   De Lanerolle, Trishan ^c   Curzon, Rebecca ^d   Mao, Xin Sheng ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b IBM Corporate Citizenship ^*

^c IBM   (United States)

^d IBM Research   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS CONTINUITY; CHENGDU; CIVIL AFFAIRS; CLOSE PROXIMITY; COMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE; COMPUTING EDUCATION; CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP; DEVELOPMENT TEAMS; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RECOVERY; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS; FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; GLOBAL COLLABORATION; GLOBAL COMMUNICATION; GLOBAL ENTERPRISES; GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL TEAM; LOCAL GROUPS; MANAGE INFORMATION; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY TEAMS; NEW YORK; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMERS; REAL INTEREST; REFUGEE CAMPS; RELIEF EFFORTS; RICHTER SCALE; SICHUAN; SICHUAN PROVINCE; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOFTWARE ENGINEERS; SRI LANKA; TEAM MEMBERS; TECHNICAL PROFESSIONALS; TRAINING WORKSHOPS; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; WASHINGTON; WEB-BASED COLLABORATION;

COMMUNICATION; DISASTER PREVENTION; EARTHQUAKES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MANAGEMENT; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL TRAINING; RECOVERY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650113465     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1859204.1859235     Document Type: Article

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