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Mobilizing Emergency/Disaster Response: Workshop

Date: 10 September 2012 Time: 9.00am to 5.30pm

Venue: LICA building, Lancaster University

As the 21st Century is taking shape, complexity and brittleness of infrastructures, increased frequency of disasters, and the potential of digital technology to support collaboration invite innovation. This workshop considers directions of innovation against a backdrop of real world examples, presented by Heiko Werner, head of the German Civil Protection Agency and other speakers. We will explore opportunities and challenges that arise from different academic, industrial, ICT and design perspectives.

Participation and contributions are invited, ranging from participation in sandpit working groups, to short talks and posters.Topics of interest include:

• changing contexts of emergency/diaster response resource shortages, climate change, terrorism, culture of fear, cybersecurity
• changing practices of mobilizing emergency/disaster response
• challenges of inter-organizational cooperation
• the role of the media and the changing nature of 'regarding the suffering of others'
• social media 'crisis informatics', the formation and diffusion of mobile 'issue' publics in response to crises
• the potential of technologies to support emergency/disaster response
• dangers of a creeping securitization/militarization of societies

Please find further information at:

http://www.security-centre.lancs.ac.uk/research/security_futures/workshop_mobilising_emergency_response.php

Participation is free, but numbers are limited. Please register early at:

http://mobilizingemergencyresponse.eventbrite.co.uk/

Event website: http://www.security-centre.lancs.ac.uk/research/security_futures/workshop_mobilising_emergency_response.php

Contact:

Who can attend: Anyone

Further information

Associated staff: Monika Büscher, Lisa Wood

Associated projects: Bridge

Organising departments and research centres: Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe), Computing and Communications, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Mobilities.Lab, Sociology

Keywords: Disasters, Mobilities, Security

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