[Sahana_proj] Blogs to the Rescue - online article

[Bloom, Stephen A. (2009)]

How do I take Sahana off my local machine and put it on a website?

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I finally succeeded in tracking down the full text of the 1-page article.   
I'll provide a summary in class today.  Here's the link:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol315/issue5814/index.dtl#r-articles

-- ram



On Feb 18, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Ralph Walde wrote:


	Would this online article on humanitarian blogs, wikis , and tools for disaster recovery be of interest 
	for the class?

	http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070212/full/070212-12.html

	Ralph Walde

	The article makes references to two printed articles.

	Shneiderman B.& Preece J., Science, 315 . 944 (2007)
	
	
	Nourbakhsh I., et al. Nature, 439. 787 - 788 (2006). 
	
	
	-----------  ACM Summary of online article ---------------

	Blogs to the Rescue!
	Nature (02/15/07) Butler, Declan

	A policy paper written by two University of Maryland professors recommends that the government incorporate Internet "community" tools to better deal with disaster relief or similar situations. The online community, using blogs, wikis, and other tools, could provide and share valuable information that would improve the effectiveness of professional emergency response efforts, say computer science professor Ben Shneiderman, founding director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and Jennifer Preece, dean of the College of Information Studies. After the 2004 tsunami, the most common way to coordinate damage assessment and support was through the information being provided by volunteers using Web tools. Similar efforts were seen in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when many Web sites emerged to keep track of missing people and relief efforts. The UM paper calls attention to the lack of online reporting and networking incorporated into Homeland Security's new Information Network for Disaster Response as well as its online volunteer forum citizenscorp.gov. "If such systems were formalized in whole or in part, the impact could indeed be enormous," says the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Lars Bromley. But, "It's entirely possible that [the plan] is simply too decentralized and technically advanced for the relatively moribund .gov sector." A project known as Instedd intends to create a decentralized global reporting system for disease outbreaks. For such programs to have an impact, "A sympathetic balance between local and central will be necessary," says Preece.
	Click Here to View Full Article <http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070212/full/070212-12.html>  

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