Building global bridges: Coordination bodies for improved information sharing among humanitarian relief agencies

Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 471-483

  Saab, David J ^a   Maldonado, Edgar ^a   Orendovici, Razvan ^a   Ngamassi Tchouakeu, Louis Marie ^a   Zhao, Kang ^a   Van Gorp, Annemijn ^a   Maitland, Carleen ^a   Tapia, Andrea H ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Cooperation; Coordination; Coordination bodies; Humanitarian; ICT

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

COLLABORATION; COOPERATION; COORDINATION; COORDINATION BODIES; HUMANITARIAN; ICT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905571525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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