Community Crisis Response Teams: Leveraging Local Resources through ICT E-Readiness

Elizabeth Gomez, Murray Turoff
2007 2007 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07)  
Dynamic community crisis response teams form quickly at the onset of a crisis providing assistance until external specialty resources arrive. FEMA recommends individual preparedness for up to 72 hours. Sustaining a community for at least 72 hours often falls to those who live or work in the community. Local community responders (i.e. small grassroots volunteers) who operate in the field during a crisis need mobile information technologies and practice for effective communication and
more » ... . Small grassroots volunteers, who may be among community responders, often have limited training and practice with two-way device quick response tactics. Our analysis of the local community literature suggests focusing on ICT training in conjunction with plainlanguage communication directed towards interoperability as a means to increase individual ICT e-readiness. We propose the use of team-based learning instructional strategy which has been empirically tested in the classroom. .
doi:10.1109/hicss.2007.135 dblp:conf/hicss/GomezT07 fatcat:yjskm7rmxreprdyycah6g5cyke