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A Holistic Approach Towards International Disaster Resilient Architecture by ...
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1. Towards novel community-based
collaborative disaster management
approaches in the new information
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environment
Marc van den Homberg
Martijn Neef
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh
Framework Programme for research, technological development and
demonstration under grant agreement no 313308
2. Large-scale disasters:
complex process involving many stakeholders
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donors and
advocacy groups
social
groups
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media
municipalities military
organisations
volunteers
businesses
needs capacities
national
governments
International,
national, local
NGOs
civilians
critical
infrastructures
professional care
organisations
online technical
volunteers
3. Many collaboration and information gaps in the
recovery phase
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The new information environment
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The new information environment
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The new information environment
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The new information environment
• Technical layer
– Information architectures, mobile
platforms and devices, methods of
handling rich, novel data streams
• Social layer
– Social use of new technologies to
create, validate and distribute
information through personal,
local, regional and global networks
• Socio-technical layer
– Combination to develop novel
capabilities for a wide variety of
novel outcomes, including new
crowd effects
Ref Goolsby, 2013
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The new information environment:
opportunities and threats
• On-line self-organizing volunteer initiatives >
offline action
• Digital volunteers for crisis mapping
• Unbound volunteer initiatives (of not
necessarily skilled volunteers) can interfere with
professionally-led activities
• Lower entry barriers for new organizations
• More organizations: increasing competition and
coordination problems
• Fast information sharing and collecting
• Misinformation gets more easily spread
• Crowd manipulation or hysteria propagation
9. The Community Based Comprehensive Recovery
(COBACORE) approach
Match the collaboration issues with the new information
environment opportunities
• Develop a vision on how stakeholders can improve the
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recovery process by working better together
• Build a demonstration platform making use of the new
information environment
• Create a network of supporters that can adopt the outcomes
and bring it into practice
http://www.cobacore.eu
10. responding
professionals
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The COBACORE communities
responding
community
affected
community
11. responding
professionals
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The COBACORE issues
responding
community
affected
community
needs & capacity matching
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FUNCTIONS
ISSUES
• enhance information
exchange
• facilitate collaboration
• improve needs and
capacity matching
information
exchange
needs & capacity matching
collaboration
support
COBACORE functions
13. Features
Functions
Issues
must-have
should-have
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COBACORE features
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could-have
information
exchange
needs & capacity matching
collaboration
support
feature
feature
pack
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Ten core features
• Four facilities to register actors, needs, capacities and activities
• Three overviews of needs and capacities, actors and their
activities, the baseline situation
• Basic recovery monitoring views
• Information exchange options
• Matching needs with capacities
– Category: 12 societal domains such as transport, health or education
– Type: service or skill, information and asset (tangible or intangible)
(sought for or offered)
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The COBACORE platform
Enhance information
exchange >> shared
understanding
Facilitate collaboration >>
re-directing and
empowering
Improve
needs and capacity
matching
Effective
Recovery
Current
processes
Operational value
Fits with
procedures
useful & usable for
COBACORE
platform
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The COBACORE platform
17. The COBACORE platform
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18. • Developed in the COBACORE project under the direction of Kenny
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Meesters from Tilburg University
• Goal
– evaluate the platform by comparing user groups interacting with the platform
and user groups using state-of-the-art social media (twitter, facebook, skype
and trello)
– improve cooperation and coordination skills of stakeholders by using the
platform in a cooperative development game
• Game design
– table-top turn-based simulation game
– evolving scenario: flood in Belfast area, three stages
– user group profiles, goals for each user group, workflows and actions
– duration about three hours
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Neighbourhood 1
4 p
Neighbourhood 2
4 p
Neighbourhood 3
4 p
Neighbourhood 4
4 p
Neighbourhood 5
4 p
Affected communities
Responding
community 1
3 p
Responding
community 2
2 p
Responding
community 3
2 p
Responding
community
Coordinating
Professionals
3 p
Responding
professionals 1
3 p
Professionals
Game
management
2 p
Observers /
instructors
8 p
COBACORE groups
Introduction
Responding
professionals 2
2 p
Responding
professionals 3
2 p
Workshops
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The way forward
• Platform development
– Life cycle of needs and capacities
– Overview that indicates the coverage and gaps
– Who is doing what and where (3W) overview
– Hybrid collaborative platform (digital and non-digital)
• Game development
– “Validate for use”: are learning objectives reached?
• Facilitate adoption of both game and platform
– Focus on all three layers: technical, social and socio-technical
– For each user group slightly different, tailor-made interfaces
– Piloting in other contexts
– Use the platform also outside recovery phases for other purposes?
• Let us know if you are interested!
22. Adopting the project outcome: COBACORE as a….
A global platform? A national or regional platform?
A community-wide platform? A professionals-only platform?
A thematic-oriented platform?
Platform at end-user level or higher
An all-purpose, all-hazard platform?
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aggregation level?
A government-led service?
A community-managed platform?
A first step towards an operational
tool, an integrator on top of social
media?
23. Added value for the Post 2015 Framework for
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Disaster Risk Reduction
• Pre-zero draft priority area:
– Preparedness for response, recovery and reconstruction: promoting regular
disaster preparedness exercises
– Understanding disaster risk: promote community-based training initiatives,
considering the role of volunteers
• Research: game and platform validated for use
• Education and training: add to disaster preparedness exercises a
game on coordination/information management
• Implementation and practice: ensure adoption of the platform
and game by developing tailor-made versions
• Policy: stimulate incorporation of coordination/information
management processes and exercises into (inter)national policy
frameworks and disaster management plans
Hinweis der Redaktion
Thank you Tina for your excellent introduction. My presentation will reflect the paper I wrote together with my TNO colleague Martijn Neef. However due to the broad range of stakeholders amongst you -as I am sure- I will in my presentation not elaborate into depth on the NGO perspective (as I did in my paper). Supporting organisations of this work are Cordaid one of the largest Dutch NGOs and TNO, the Netherlands Research and Technology Organisation and last but not least the EU FP7 COBACORE consortium
Let me start by setting the scene. Large scale disasters are complex events involving many stakeholders. For example in the response and recovery phase in the Philippines in each cluster of the UN Cluster system were between 50 up to 560 organisations active. One can easily imagine that it will not be easy to match needs and capacities, especially so in the recovery phase
Gaps at different levels: int, nat, reg and local, within an organisation (iNGO, nat NGO, local NGO) but also between organisations
So how to deal with all these gaps?
Well, luckily there is an important trend that can maybe be utilized. I will call this trend the new information environment.
Here you see a picture of when I was in Bangladesh recently I asked people living in a very poor rural area to show their mobile phones and nearly everyone was able to show one, often even simple smartphones!
And new developments are coming also each day, e.g. crowdsourcing has also developed into crowdgaming
How to characterize the new information environment, wel we have different forms: social media, crowdsourcing/crowdfunding/crowdgaming etc, online collaboration tools and citizen capacity initiatives
But also different layers
Start mid 2013
Affected professionals
Resilient community
Affected professionals
Resilient community
10 features: facilities to register (a) actors, (b) needs, (c) capacities and (d) activities; options to match needs with capacities (e); option to obtain an overview of (f) needs and capacities, (g) actors and their activities and (h) the baseline situation; basic recovery monitoring views (i); and information exchange options (j). Needs and capacities are categorized via an expressive category and type system. A ‘category’ is one of twelve main societal domains that play a role in disaster recovery, such as transport, health or education. A ‘type’ is the sort of thing that is being sought or offered, where we distinguish three types: service or skill, information and asset (tangible or intangible). The combination of one or more categories with a type gives a simple yet expressive way to characterize needs, capacities, and activities. The COBACORE platform is implemented as a web service and is accessible through laptop or mobile device for each of the user groups: professionals, responding community and affected community
A platform for more effective recovery through closing collaboration gaps and supporting self-sustaining communities
Needs overview
Community-generated data
Community awareness
Marketplace
Volunteer management
Volunteer training
Activity mapping
enhance information exchange
facilitate collaboration
improve needs and capacity matching
The COBACORE platform is implemented as a web service and is accessible through laptop or mobile device for each of the user groups: professionals, responding community and affected community
Observe, interpret and evaluate experiences of end-users
Assess operational value of integrated parts in practice
Test whether COBACORE has the right functionality
Determine how COBACORE can be further improved
Flood in Belfast Urban Area
Several areas are affected to various extents
Multiple organizations are responding
We play 3 stages:
Rescue & Relief (Wed)
Recovery (Thu)
Reconstruction & Development (Thu)
Affected population: Divided over 5 neighborhoods, Responding community: Church, Scouting and ‘Facebook Response’
Responding professionals: Red Cross, Cordaid, Municipality, group of coordinating professionals.
37 participants in total and 8 observers from the COBACORE consortium. A mix of professionals from municipality and safety region, trained volunteers of NLRC and GRC and students participated in the evaluation.
a two day evaluation was organized in Rotterdam to investigate the above research questions and hypotheses. On the first day background information about the COBACORE project and concept was provided to end-users, experts and stakeholders. Participants received a demonstration of the COBACORE platform and instructions to use its functionality. They performed a training session to familiarize themselves with the Belfast flooding scenario and their roles. On the second day participants used the COBACORE platform to perform the tasks associated with their roles. End-users and experts performed their tasks and experienced the COBACORE platform in simulated environment: the COBAgame. In the afternoon participants used a mix of social media (e.g. twitter, facebook) to be able to compare experiences. The behavior of participants was observed and logged in COBACORE and their opinions concerning collaboration, operational value, fit with procedures and usefulness and usability were gathered with questionnaires and focus group sessions. After both scenarios, discussion sessions were held to pinpoint which current functionalities and features of the platform needed improvement and how they could be improved. Results were used to answer research questions and hypotheses
In pursuing the three strategic goals, and drawing from the knowledge and experience matured in the implementation of the HFA and the previous instruments, there is a need for focused, specific, yet mutually supportive actions in the local, national, regional and global contexts, in key priority areas, namely understanding disaster risk; strengthening governance to manage disaster risk; preparedness for response, recovery and reconstruction; and investing in social, economic, and environmental resilience.understanding disaster risk; strengthening governance to manage disaster risk; preparedness for response, recovery and reconstruction; and investing in social, economic, and environmental resilience.