This document summarizes the history and activities of ISCRAM, an international community that promotes research and development of information systems for crisis response and management. Some key points: - ISCRAM began in 2004 and has grown to over 1600 registered users. It holds international conferences alternating between Europe and North America. - The conferences provide a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss topics like social media in crises, IT for humanitarian operations, and visualization tools. Special sessions cover issues like healthcare in emergencies and security. - ISCRAM also organizes workshops in China and summer schools for PhD students. It publishes articles in journals and communications of ACM to disseminate research. - Going

1. ISCRAM – Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Bartel Van de Walle February 2008

2. ISCRAM2004 – 2008: impressions from a journey … With thanks to many many fellow-travellers and a few hard-core ISCRAM believers

3. Purpose of the ISCRAM Community Promote research, development and deployment of information systems for crisis response and management Promote and facilitate international cooperation between scientific institutions, research institutes and universities with activities in the area of crisis response and management scientists and the practitioners in this field research in scientific institutions and universities and the technology and solution providers

4. Purpose of the ISCRAM Community Help define programmes and projects and develop action plans, both national and international, for scientific and technological research in this area, and in collaboration with members of the ISCRAM Community

5. Applied Research Fundamental Research Empirical Research Controled Reality Capture Analyse Dedicated Exercise Analyse Capture Capture Experiment Analyse Controlled experiment Analyse Calculate Theory Model Capture Analyse Prototype Simulate Capture Analyse

6. Community website: 400 registered users December 2004 850 registered users December 2005 1200 registered users December 2006 1600 registered users December 2007 ISCRAM Community: h ttp://www.iscram.org

7. New registrations in a given week: Jobst Loffler, Fraunhofer, Germany Lundy Lewis, Southern New Hampshire Univ., USA Yannis Kalfoglou, Univ. Southampton, UK Myra Haase, Missouri State, USA Bedrich Smetana, Univ. Obrany, CZ Brian Small, Adam Geitgey, Bill Pond, ESI911.com, USA Sahil Virani, Univ. Mauritius, Mauritius Wim van Setten, Sticht. Platform Mobile Messaging, NL Ryan Bravo, Univ. Notre Dame, USA Abhishek, DIMT, India Anthony Cinelli, CTO A Reality Technologies, USA Preston Yates, GIS coordinator, Flagler County, USA Brian Sokoll, Abt Associates, USA Markku Hakkinen, Finland …

11. ISCRAM International Conferences: Initiated in 2004, first meeting in Brussels As of 2005, alternating between Europe and USA: Brussels, Belgium 2005 Newark, New Jersey 2006 Delft, the Netherlands 2007 Washington DC 2008 to be decided 2009 San Diego, CA 2010

12. ISCRAM2004 – First Int’l Workshop, Brussels co-chair Benny Carlé (SCK-CEN) 80 participants Proceedings (with ISBN) on CD

13. Keynote Speakers Murray Turoff Simon French Einar Bjorgo

14. First Opening by Paul Govaerts (general manager SCK-CEN)

17. Mike Melshkin Award for best PhD paper

18. 2004 MM Award Winner: Jonas Landgren, Viktoria Institute, Sweden

19. ISCRAM2005 – 2nd Int’l Conference, Brussels co-chair Benny Carlé (SCK-CEN) 120 participants Proceedings (with ISBN) – printed Book

21. Keynote Speakers Jack Harrald Dan Power Paul Currion Liz Carver

24. 2005 MM Award Winner: Jiri Trnka, Linkoping Univ., Sweden

26. ISCRAM2006 – 3rd Int’l Conference, Newark co-chair Murray Turoff (NJIT) 150 participants Proceedings (with ISBN) – CD

28. Keynote Speakers Gino Menchini Paul Currion Peter Wood

29. PhD Symposium (David Mendonca)

31. 2006 MM Award Winner: Manuel Llavador, TU Valencia, Spain

32. ISCRAM2007– 4th Int’l Conference, Delft co-chairs Kees Nieuwenhuis and Paul Burghardt (Delft) 150 participants Proceedings (with ISBN) – Book

34. ISCRAM2008– 5th Int’l Conference, GWU co-chairs Frank Fiedrich and Jack Harrald

35. ISCRAM2008– 5th Int’l Conference, GWU Doctoral Consortium: Jonas Landgren

36. ISCRAM2008: 28 Special Sessions Tapia, Andrea; Maitland, Carleen Information Coordination between Heterogeneous Emergency and Relief Agencies French, Simon (1); Bayley, Clare (1) Social Networking, Web Collaboration and e Participation in Crisis and Risk Management Schooley, Benjamin; Horan, Thomas IT Governance for Inter-organizational Emergency Response SALEH, Hussain Aziz; ALLAERT, Georges Early Warning Systems Van de Walle, Bartel (1); Muhren, Willem (1); de Silva, Chamindra (2); Currion, Paul (3) Information Systems for Humanitarian Operations Meissner, Andreas (1); Geisler, Juergen (1); Stiefelhagen, Rainer (2) Smart Room Technology for Emergency Operation Centres and Mobile Command Posts

37. Burgman, Aaron (1); Yost, Beth (1) Visualization for Decision Making, Information Sharing, and Collaboration Malizia, Alessio (1); Klann, Markus (2); Chittaro, Luca (3); Aedo-Cuevas, Ignacio (1); Levialdi, Stefano (4) HCI for Emergencies Bharosa, Nitesh; Cresswell, Anthony; Roa, Raghav; Lee, Jin Kyu Adaptive Information Architectures for Interagency Crisis Management Wickler, Gerhard (1); Dokas, Ioannis (2); Engelmann, Hagen (3); Fiedrich, Frank (4) Intelligent Systems for Crisis and Disaster Management

38. Liebau, Nicolas Christopher (1); Steinmetz, Ralf (1); Bradler, Dirk (1); Kangasharju, Jussi (2) Decentralized and Self-Organizing IT-Infrastructures for Crisis Response and Management White, Connie Marie (1); Plotnick, Linda Small (1) Trust in Emergency Planning and Response Iannella, Renato (1); Giunchiglia, Fausto (2); Di Maio, Paola (3) Ontologies for Crisis Management Otto, Peter (1); Rich, Eliot (2) Applications of System Dynamics for Crisis Response and Management Mendonca, David Research Methods in ISCRAM McGarry, Nina Healthcare

39. Turoff, Murray Reducing Information Proliferation and Overload in Emergency Management D'Arcy, John (1); Schuff, David (2) IT Security Johansson, Björn (1); Jenvald, Johan (2); Trnka, Jiri (1); Woltjer, Rogier (1) Studies of Command and Control Systems Bertsch, Valentin (1); Merz, Mirjam (1); Geldermann, Jutta (2); Hiete, Michael (1) Impact of Disasters on Industry and Economic Effects Mecella, Massimo (1); Ashish, Naveen (2); Krek, Alenka (3) Process- and Geo-aware Systems for Crisis Management Tomaszewski, Brian Michael Geographic Information Science

40. Hiltz, Starr Roxanne; Ocker, Rosalie J. Virtual Teams and Virtual Communities in Emergency Preparedness and Response Becerra-Fernandez, Irma (1); Madey, Greg (2); Prietula, Michael (3); Rodriguez, Domingo (4); Valerdi, Ricardo (5) Virtual Systems for Emergency Management Simulation & Training Burghardt, Paul (1); Jul, Susanne (3); Van de Ven, Josine (2) Creating Crises: Virtual Environments for crisis, disaster and emergency management Rao, Ramesh (1); Balakrishnan, Manoj (1); Hubenko Baker, Alexandra (1) Technology Showcase – Communication Systems and Technologies for Crisis and Disaster Response Morelli, Ralph; de Lanerolle, Trishan Humanitarian and Crisis Information Systems: Reports from Academia, Business, and Government Van de Walle, Bartel (1); Snoad, Nigel (2); Seppanen, Juha-Matti (3); Livanos Cattaui, Maria (4) ICT FOR PEACE

41. ISCRAM PhD SUMMER SCHOOLS originally joint initiative ISCRAM-TIEMS NL about PhD Students Lectures from international experts Varied technical – social program

42. PhD Summer School 2006 Tilburg, NL

47. ISCRAM-CHINA INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS Hosted by Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China For and by Chinese researchers in this area With an increasing foreign participation

48. ISCRAM-CHINA Workshop 2006, Harbin, China

52. IN 2008: ISCRAM-CHINA 2008, August 4-6 2008 at HEU (program chair: Song Yan). Joint event with GI4DM. Information Systems and Geo-Information for Urban Crisis Management Deadline abstracts: February 15

53. Special Sessions in IS Conferences AMICS (2004 – 2008) and HICSS (2005-2008) Special Issues in Journals JITTA (IT Theory and Applications) JHSEM (Homeland Security and Management) GDN (Group Decision and Negotiation) IJEM (Int’l J. Emergency Management) Targeted Publications/Conferences/Journals

54. Special Section in Communications of the ACM, March 2007

55. Special Section in Communications of the ACM, March 2007

56. Special Section in Communications of the ACM, March 2007

57. IN 2008: Launch of the International Journal of ISCRAM To become a quality academic journal Academic rigor and practitioner relevance Quarterly, first issue to be published in January 2009 EICs: Bartel Van de Walle and Murray Jennex (UCSD, USA) 4 AEs from USA, Europe, China and Africa Editorial Board: global representation

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