1. The document proposes using the Advanced Syntegration tool to coordinate large-scale disaster response in as little as 2.5-3.5 days after an event.
2. The Advanced Syntegration is presented as a revolutionary innovation that harnesses the collective intelligence of up to 40 key stakeholders to efficiently solve complex problems.
3. A case study of a catastrophic hurricane hitting Hawaii with no evacuation option finds the current response system overwhelmed; the author argues the Advanced Syntegration could better coordinate the many responding organizations under extreme time pressure and complexity.
A Holistic Approach to Evaluating Social Media's Successful Implementation in...Connie White
As emergency management agencies and organizations implement social media and web technology to support crisis information and communication efforts, many question if present strategies are beneficial. This is especially true if social media is being implemented for the first time or has not been experienced in a live disaster. Studies have been conducted providing information on a variety of interactions between Social Media and Emergency Management (SMEM). However, few have taken a formal scientific approach as a means of measurement providing a 'Comprehensive Performance Metric.' Performance metrics need to have consistency while providing room for implementing unique measurement criteria for individualized efforts. We offer a research design using field studies of real world cases, evaluating rural and metropolitan areas. The result produces a set of 'Best Practices' through implementation. By offering a means of measuring success, SMEM can continue to evolve by using a methodologically sound approach using social media.
Disaster and crisis management is a global problem. Scenarios range from short-term localized events to those with widespread impact persisting for years or decades. From personal experience and research in the topic area, there is clearly a need for a technology “platform” that can integrate cross-disciplinary agencies, civilians, contractors, and any other conceivable stakeholder. These stakeholders (including the environment and the public) will benefit immensely from integration and standardization in a problem-solving environment, especially in light of the value of human life. This approach should lead to enhanced preservation of life and safety, reduced environmental impact, and overall improvement in disaster response and mitigation – irrespective of the disaster type or scale.
I have previously written about the transition that I believe is necessary in project management thinking related to large complex projects. In those writing I describe the shift as analogous to the shift from Newtonian to relativistic physics. Subsequently, I have compared the nature of large complex programs to open systems. Reflecting back, classical project management theory was very much based on closed systems thinking and early applications of systems thinking to projects and engineering was also very much based on closed systems thinking.
This is analogous to the closed systems of Newton and Einstein’s correction of his original General Theory of Relativity through the introduction of the cosmological constant to close a system which he believed behaved mechanistically and not expanding. In hindsight the cosmological constant was not necessary but does suggest some properties of the universe and became relevant in explaining an accelerating expansion of the universe. Subsequently, there was at least one special case where the deterministic nature of a closed system broke down when considering General Relativity suggesting at least some open nature to this system.
Building Better Disaster Response and Resilience with Information and TechnologyBrandon Greenberg
For nearly five years I have been in higher education exploring how information and technology can improve disaster response and resilience. I have explored complex issues in great detail and I have learned a lot about the challenges and opportunities being faced by communities, organizations and people trying to leverage information and technology to better respond to disasters and build resilience.
But as I begin my transition back to the working world in the near future, I am forced to reflect on how I can apply this new knowledge to help address current problems while also preparing for an innovative future beyond what we can imagine today. I find myself writing about my philosophy on leveraging information and technology to improve disaster response and resilience. This philosophy will guide me in my next job…a job that will allow me to apply and transform my knowledge into pragmatic and sustainable change that pushes disaster response and resilience to achieve better outcomes with information and technology.
A Holistic Approach to Evaluating Social Media's Successful Implementation in...Connie White
As emergency management agencies and organizations implement social media and web technology to support crisis information and communication efforts, many question if present strategies are beneficial. This is especially true if social media is being implemented for the first time or has not been experienced in a live disaster. Studies have been conducted providing information on a variety of interactions between Social Media and Emergency Management (SMEM). However, few have taken a formal scientific approach as a means of measurement providing a 'Comprehensive Performance Metric.' Performance metrics need to have consistency while providing room for implementing unique measurement criteria for individualized efforts. We offer a research design using field studies of real world cases, evaluating rural and metropolitan areas. The result produces a set of 'Best Practices' through implementation. By offering a means of measuring success, SMEM can continue to evolve by using a methodologically sound approach using social media.
Disaster and crisis management is a global problem. Scenarios range from short-term localized events to those with widespread impact persisting for years or decades. From personal experience and research in the topic area, there is clearly a need for a technology “platform” that can integrate cross-disciplinary agencies, civilians, contractors, and any other conceivable stakeholder. These stakeholders (including the environment and the public) will benefit immensely from integration and standardization in a problem-solving environment, especially in light of the value of human life. This approach should lead to enhanced preservation of life and safety, reduced environmental impact, and overall improvement in disaster response and mitigation – irrespective of the disaster type or scale.
I have previously written about the transition that I believe is necessary in project management thinking related to large complex projects. In those writing I describe the shift as analogous to the shift from Newtonian to relativistic physics. Subsequently, I have compared the nature of large complex programs to open systems. Reflecting back, classical project management theory was very much based on closed systems thinking and early applications of systems thinking to projects and engineering was also very much based on closed systems thinking.
This is analogous to the closed systems of Newton and Einstein’s correction of his original General Theory of Relativity through the introduction of the cosmological constant to close a system which he believed behaved mechanistically and not expanding. In hindsight the cosmological constant was not necessary but does suggest some properties of the universe and became relevant in explaining an accelerating expansion of the universe. Subsequently, there was at least one special case where the deterministic nature of a closed system broke down when considering General Relativity suggesting at least some open nature to this system.
Building Better Disaster Response and Resilience with Information and TechnologyBrandon Greenberg
For nearly five years I have been in higher education exploring how information and technology can improve disaster response and resilience. I have explored complex issues in great detail and I have learned a lot about the challenges and opportunities being faced by communities, organizations and people trying to leverage information and technology to better respond to disasters and build resilience.
But as I begin my transition back to the working world in the near future, I am forced to reflect on how I can apply this new knowledge to help address current problems while also preparing for an innovative future beyond what we can imagine today. I find myself writing about my philosophy on leveraging information and technology to improve disaster response and resilience. This philosophy will guide me in my next job…a job that will allow me to apply and transform my knowledge into pragmatic and sustainable change that pushes disaster response and resilience to achieve better outcomes with information and technology.
Optimización de Páginas de Destino: se trata de psicología y no de tecnologíaClikéalo WSI
Aclaremos un punto importante: la gente no lee en Internet, simplemente escanean información. Ven títulos, imágenes y bullet points. Dependiendo de la personalidad de su visitante, usted tendrá entre 2 y 8 segundos para convencerlo a quedarse en su sitio web. Esas son las condiciones en las que se conducen los negocios en Internet actualmente.
Y cuando se trata de páginas de destino, tenemos que ser aún más cuidadosos con la forma en que la página se presenta a un visitante.
Si desea ayuda para la creación de páginas de destino, póngase en contacto hoy mismo con nosotros. Si lo prefiere puede llamarnos al +52 (55) 5668 0442 o escribirnos a info@clikealowsi.com
Aperfeiçoamento de Protocolo para Extração de DNA de Leveduras com Método CTABJasmine Costa Jardim
As leveduras são consideradas o modelo ideal para o estudo de células eucarióticas e possuem inúmeras aplicações na biotecnologia em áreas de pesquisa emergentes. A identificação molecular de leveduras é uma técnica que apresenta o potencial de substituir os testes bioquímicos tradicionais porque gera maior acuracidade na identificação de espécies. Entretanto, a maior parte dos protocolos para extração de DNA de leveduras tem como base esferas de vidro, equipamento inviável para a análise de amostras em maior escala. Outros protocolos que não utilizam esse equipamento não seguem o método CTAB ou não possuem reproducibilidade devido à falta de informações. Tendo em vista esses fatores, o objetivo desse estudo foi adaptar um protocolo de extração de DNA sem fenol para leveduras. Empregou-se a levedura Saccharomyces spp. isolada de mel e inoculou-se em Ágar Batata Dextrosado. A amostra foi incubada a 30 ±1°C por 48 horas. Variou-se a extração de DNA em relação ao protocolo base nos meios de cultura utilizados, na adição de esfriamento da amostra em gelo, nos tempos de centrifugação (14000 rpm por 10 minutos), agitação em vórtex (25 hertz por 15 segundos) e nas quantidades de reagentes. O protocolo aperfeiçoado é constituído pela remoção de proteínas com Proteinase K e dodecil sulfato de sódio a 20%. Demais contaminantes são removidos por precipitação seletiva com a adição de CTAB e NaCl e subsequente centrifugação com clorofórmio e álcool isoamílico (24:1 respectivamente). Posteriormente precipita-se DNA com isopropanol, conservando amostra em buffer Tris-EDTA 1X. Analisou-se a qualidade do DNA extraído em eletroforese horizontal (1% agarose) e quantificou-se as amostras, obtendo quantidade de DNA da amostra do protocolo aperfeiçoado de 1,819 μg/mL, com razão (260/280) de 1,899. Recomenda-se o protocolo para subsequentes técnicas de PCR devido à integridade apresentada em eletroforese e razão em espectrofotômetro considerada ideal, sendo o protocolo mais prático que os já existentes devido a utilização do versátil reagente CTAB e a ausência de esferas de vidro. Esse estudo foi desenvolvido através de uma bolsa de intercâmbio pelo programa PROPICIE do Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina com a Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, sob a orientação da Prof. Dra. Liliana M. Gerard.
Information, Knowledge Management & Coordination Systems: Complex Systems App...CITE
Date: 4 Jun 2013
Time: 12:45pm - 2:00pm
Venue: Room 101, Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speakers: Professor Liaquat Hossain, University of Sydney
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http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?id=502&category=conference
Leveraging A Wiki To Enhance Virtual Collaboration In The Emergency DomainConnie White
In a crisis situation, critical success factors include good preparedness, the availability of
trustworthy information and reliable people, and the responders' ability to improvise with the available, functioning tools. Wikis can be used as collaborative group support systems to support these activities, especially for communities of practice that must operate as high reliability organizations. The advantages of using a wiki are especially beneficial in volatile environments, such as those in the emergency domain, where critical real-time decision making is required. An international wiki - emergenciWiki.org - has been created and is being used by both practitioners and academics. The conclusions include that wiki features and functionality, which are important for safetycritical work, should add a minimum of bureaucratic overhead while helping to establish trust and a sense of purpose and community among the users, strengthening each individual user's accountability for their actions, or easing the evaluation of information reliability. (*note emergenciWiki.org project is over)
Evaluating Platforms for Community Sensemaking: Using the Case of the Kenyan ...COMRADES project
Vittorio Nespeca
TU Delft
V.Nespeca@tudelft.nl
Kenny Meesters
TU Delft
K.J.M.G.Meesters@tudelft.nl
Tina Comes
TU Delft
T.Comes@tudelft.nl
WiPe Paper – T12 - Designing for Resilience
Proceedings of the 15th ISCRAM Conference – Rochester, NY, USA May 2018
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324162897_Evaluating_Platforms_for_Community_Sensemaking_Using_the_Case_of_the_Kenyan_Elections_Vittorio_Nespeca
Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming Workshop - Nov 2015Eric Momanyi
Policy House is pleased to present a workshop on Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming. This workshop will equip researchers, senior climate change program staff, climate negotiators, government officials, policy analysts and researchers with the skills to study climate resilience and design effective climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience and green growth.
Optimización de Páginas de Destino: se trata de psicología y no de tecnologíaClikéalo WSI
Aclaremos un punto importante: la gente no lee en Internet, simplemente escanean información. Ven títulos, imágenes y bullet points. Dependiendo de la personalidad de su visitante, usted tendrá entre 2 y 8 segundos para convencerlo a quedarse en su sitio web. Esas son las condiciones en las que se conducen los negocios en Internet actualmente.
Y cuando se trata de páginas de destino, tenemos que ser aún más cuidadosos con la forma en que la página se presenta a un visitante.
Si desea ayuda para la creación de páginas de destino, póngase en contacto hoy mismo con nosotros. Si lo prefiere puede llamarnos al +52 (55) 5668 0442 o escribirnos a info@clikealowsi.com
Aperfeiçoamento de Protocolo para Extração de DNA de Leveduras com Método CTABJasmine Costa Jardim
As leveduras são consideradas o modelo ideal para o estudo de células eucarióticas e possuem inúmeras aplicações na biotecnologia em áreas de pesquisa emergentes. A identificação molecular de leveduras é uma técnica que apresenta o potencial de substituir os testes bioquímicos tradicionais porque gera maior acuracidade na identificação de espécies. Entretanto, a maior parte dos protocolos para extração de DNA de leveduras tem como base esferas de vidro, equipamento inviável para a análise de amostras em maior escala. Outros protocolos que não utilizam esse equipamento não seguem o método CTAB ou não possuem reproducibilidade devido à falta de informações. Tendo em vista esses fatores, o objetivo desse estudo foi adaptar um protocolo de extração de DNA sem fenol para leveduras. Empregou-se a levedura Saccharomyces spp. isolada de mel e inoculou-se em Ágar Batata Dextrosado. A amostra foi incubada a 30 ±1°C por 48 horas. Variou-se a extração de DNA em relação ao protocolo base nos meios de cultura utilizados, na adição de esfriamento da amostra em gelo, nos tempos de centrifugação (14000 rpm por 10 minutos), agitação em vórtex (25 hertz por 15 segundos) e nas quantidades de reagentes. O protocolo aperfeiçoado é constituído pela remoção de proteínas com Proteinase K e dodecil sulfato de sódio a 20%. Demais contaminantes são removidos por precipitação seletiva com a adição de CTAB e NaCl e subsequente centrifugação com clorofórmio e álcool isoamílico (24:1 respectivamente). Posteriormente precipita-se DNA com isopropanol, conservando amostra em buffer Tris-EDTA 1X. Analisou-se a qualidade do DNA extraído em eletroforese horizontal (1% agarose) e quantificou-se as amostras, obtendo quantidade de DNA da amostra do protocolo aperfeiçoado de 1,819 μg/mL, com razão (260/280) de 1,899. Recomenda-se o protocolo para subsequentes técnicas de PCR devido à integridade apresentada em eletroforese e razão em espectrofotômetro considerada ideal, sendo o protocolo mais prático que os já existentes devido a utilização do versátil reagente CTAB e a ausência de esferas de vidro. Esse estudo foi desenvolvido através de uma bolsa de intercâmbio pelo programa PROPICIE do Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina com a Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, sob a orientação da Prof. Dra. Liliana M. Gerard.
Information, Knowledge Management & Coordination Systems: Complex Systems App...CITE
Date: 4 Jun 2013
Time: 12:45pm - 2:00pm
Venue: Room 101, Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speakers: Professor Liaquat Hossain, University of Sydney
------------------------------------
http://www.cite.hku.hk/news.php?id=502&category=conference
Leveraging A Wiki To Enhance Virtual Collaboration In The Emergency DomainConnie White
In a crisis situation, critical success factors include good preparedness, the availability of
trustworthy information and reliable people, and the responders' ability to improvise with the available, functioning tools. Wikis can be used as collaborative group support systems to support these activities, especially for communities of practice that must operate as high reliability organizations. The advantages of using a wiki are especially beneficial in volatile environments, such as those in the emergency domain, where critical real-time decision making is required. An international wiki - emergenciWiki.org - has been created and is being used by both practitioners and academics. The conclusions include that wiki features and functionality, which are important for safetycritical work, should add a minimum of bureaucratic overhead while helping to establish trust and a sense of purpose and community among the users, strengthening each individual user's accountability for their actions, or easing the evaluation of information reliability. (*note emergenciWiki.org project is over)
Evaluating Platforms for Community Sensemaking: Using the Case of the Kenyan ...COMRADES project
Vittorio Nespeca
TU Delft
V.Nespeca@tudelft.nl
Kenny Meesters
TU Delft
K.J.M.G.Meesters@tudelft.nl
Tina Comes
TU Delft
T.Comes@tudelft.nl
WiPe Paper – T12 - Designing for Resilience
Proceedings of the 15th ISCRAM Conference – Rochester, NY, USA May 2018
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324162897_Evaluating_Platforms_for_Community_Sensemaking_Using_the_Case_of_the_Kenyan_Elections_Vittorio_Nespeca
Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming Workshop - Nov 2015Eric Momanyi
Policy House is pleased to present a workshop on Systems Thinking Tools for Climate Resilience Programming. This workshop will equip researchers, senior climate change program staff, climate negotiators, government officials, policy analysts and researchers with the skills to study climate resilience and design effective climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience and green growth.
Disaster Theory : chapter 5 “Disaster and Complexity” by David Etkinsalinnasriworaweat
This presentation is part of the subject "Advanced theory of regional planning, Insititute of Urban Innovation, Yokohama National University"
The purpose is to understand and summarize articles of theory related to natural disasters.
Keynote "The System Approach in Resiliency"
Dirk Helbing, Chair of Sociology, in particular of Modeling and Simulation, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland at the 4th Annual Conference on Community Resiliency
GIS as Information Technology’s Answer to the Environmental Pollution Problem...Celestine Achi
The threat to human and sub-human existence is no longer a new piece of information. By the moment, the print and electronic media report cases of environmental pollution and its effects. On the developed side of the globe, the
media’s ideas are taken into consideration for prompt action while the developing nations remain unperturbed, not
because they do not want to solve the problems but because environmental pollution is given little or no priority.
In case of doubt, consider the Niger Delta people of Nigeria whose environment is not as valuable as their oil’s
revenue generation to the powers that be.
Urban Climate Change Resilience in Action: Lessons from Projects in 10 ACCCRN...The Rockefeller Foundation
This paper presents key insights emerging from an analysis of the 36 intervention projects,totaling approximately $15.5 million, which have been funded and are beingimplemented under the Rockefeller Foundation Asian Cities Climate Change ResilienceNetwork (ACCCRN) in ten initial cities1. As a pioneering effort to advance on-the-groundactions aimed at building urban climate change resilience (UCCR), this portfolio ofprojects2 provides a ‘first generation’ view of how a set of cities have interpreted UCCRchallenges and translated their understanding into targeted priorities and actions. Oneof the intentions of the ACCCRN initiative was to advance the still young field of UCCRwith practical actions that substantiate the growing number of theoretical frameworks.
Massively Parallel Simulations of Spread of Infectious Diseases over Realisti...Subhajit Sahu
Highlighted notes while preparing for project on Computational Epidemics:
Massively Parallel Simulations of Spread of Infectious Diseases over Realistic Social Networks
Abhinav Bhatele, Jae-Seung Yeom, Nikhil Jain, Chris J. Kuhlman, Yarden Livnat, Keith R. Bisset, Laxmikant V. Kale, Madhav V. Marathe
Controlling the spread of infectious diseases in large populations is an important societal challenge. Mathematically, the problem is best captured as a certain class of reactiondiffusion processes (referred to as contagion processes) over appropriate synthesized interaction networks. Agent-based models have been successfully used in the recent past to study such contagion processes. We describe EpiSimdemics, a highly scalable, parallel code written in Charm++ that uses agent-based modeling to simulate disease spreads over large, realistic, co-evolving interaction networks. We present a new parallel implementation of EpiSimdemics that achieves unprecedented strong and weak scaling on different architectures — Blue Waters, Cori and Mira. EpiSimdemics achieves five times greater speedup than the second fastest parallel code in this field. This unprecedented scaling is an important step to support the long term vision of realtime epidemic science. Finally, we demonstrate the capabilities of EpiSimdemics by simulating the spread of influenza over a realistic synthetic social contact network spanning the continental United States (∼280 million nodes and 5.8 billion social contacts).