The Intelligent City Operations Centre: An integrated platform for crisis management

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 92 LNICST, Issue , 2012, Pages 248-257

  Monze, Mweene ^a  

^a IBM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

city management; collaboration; crisis management; disaster management; emergency management; mobile applications

Indexed keywords

CITY MANAGEMENT; COLLABORATION; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; MOBILE APPLICATIONS;

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

EID: 84869597818     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29093-0_24     Document Type: Conference Paper

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