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ISCRAM 2014
1. The 11th International Conference on
Information Systems for
Crisis Response and Management
2. Empowering. Local.
Communities. Citizens.
Empowering Citizens and Communities through
Information Systems for Crisis Response and
Management
Conference
Theme
• Citizens as first responders
• Citizens helping citizens
and responders
• Crowdsourceddata and
analysis
• Community and Crisis
Informatics
3.
4.
5. Dr. LeysiaPalen
Associate Professor of Computer
Science, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Keynote
Speaker
• Faculty fellow with the Institute
for the Alliance of
Technology, Learning and
Society (ATLAS)
• Director of the ConnectivITyLab
• Principal investigator on the
NSF Funded Project EPIC:
Empowering the Public with
Information in Crisis.
6. Keynote
Speaker
Edward G. Happ
Global CIO of the International Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Based in Geneva, Switzerland
• Chairman of NetHope
• Former Chief Information
Officer at Save the Children
7. • Co-founded and co-director of the
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s
(HHI) Program on Crisis Mapping &
Early Warning.
• He served as Director of Crisis
Mapping at Ushahidi
• Co-founded CrisisMappers, Digital
Humanitarians and the award-
winning Standby Task Force.
Keynote
Speaker
Dr. Patrick Meier
Serves as Director of Innovation at
the Qatar Computing Research
Institute (QCRI).
8. 2014
Conference
Dates
Sunday May 18 Pre-Conference
Monday May 19 Opening Day
Tuesday May 20 Middle Day / Banquet
Wednesday May 21 Final Day
Thursday May 22 Departure
9. Centrally Located!
New York City
State College
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington DC
Pittsburgh
Toronto, Canada
10. State College
is centrally
located!
only…
3-4 hrs from Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,
and Washington, D.C.
4-5 hrs from New York City
6 hrs from Toronto, Canada
New York
Washington, D.C.
Baltimore
. Pittsburgh
Philadelphia .
11. Transportation
BY AIR: State College has its own small airport.
Close to town. Served by American. Delta. USAir.
BY BUS:Megabus offers daily service from New
York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.
BY CAR: The easiest way to get to State College.
16. Facility
Tours
• Center Human Computer Interface
• Center for Cyber Security, Information Privacy
and Trust
• Command & Control Lab
• Extreme Events Lab
• Spatial Information Lab
• Smart Sensing Lab
• Cyber Infrastructure Lab
• Intelligent Information Systems Lab
• Computer Supported Collaboration Lab
• Applied Cognitive Science Lab
• Lab for Intelligent Agents
• Red Cell Analytics Lab
17. HOTEL
The Nittany Lion Inn (5-star)
RATES:
Single $125.00Triple $145.00
Double $135.00 Quad $155.00
18. • Five Star Hotel—96 euros!
• Gourmet dinner for two with wine—69 euros!
• Good bottle of wine—8 euros!
• Martini—4 euros!
• Good microbrewed pint of beer- 2.5 euros!
• Best ice-cream in the world—2 euros!
