Integration of volunteer and technical communities into the humanitarian aid sector: Barriers to collaboration

ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 622-631

  Van Gorp, Annemijn F ^a  

^a THE HAGUE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Humanitarian aid organization; Interorganizational collaboration; Social media; V TC

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EXPERT NETWORKS; INTERORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOFTWARE PLATFORMS; SUPPORTING TECHNOLOGY; TECHNICAL COMMUNITY;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84905845536     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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