Disaster management and Community Warning (CW) systems: Inter-organisational collaboration and ICT innovation

PACIS 2009 - 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: IT Services in a Global Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bunker, Deborah ^a   Smith, Stephen ^a  

^a SISTM UNSW ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATIVE APPROACH; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; CROSS-BORDER; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; EMERGENCY SCENARIO; EMERGENCY SERVICE; ICT ARCHITECTURE; LEARNING CAPABILITIES; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROCESS RESOURCES; STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT; STATE GOVERNMENTS; WARNING INFORMATIONS;

ACCIDENTS; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; ECONOMICS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84889742206     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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