One of the workshops at our CIP Conference 2016 on 1 July 2016 at Antwerp Management School.
When disaster strikes the common perception is that chaos arises and emergency response organizations need to put the situation under control by employing a centralized command structure. Command and Control is the dominant paradigm for many disaster theories and for the response organizations themselves.
One of the workshops at our CIP Conference 2016 on 1 July 2016 at Antwerp Management School.
Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and many other platforms have enabled citizens to connect, communicate and collaborate with each other in a previously unparalleled manner. Recent critical events, both natural and man-made have shown us that this is not limited to carpooling (Uber) and couch surfing (Airbnb). Today, in times of crisis, people reach back to these platforms for information, communication and even coordination: Facebook groups are formed by spontaneous volunteers to help, Twitter becomes an information exchange platform and Whatsapp becomes a viable alternative to connect and coordinate with others.
One of the workshops at our CIP Conference 2016 on 1 July 2016 at Antwerp Management School.
Governmental institutions and organizations prepare for disasters. They draw up emergency plans and organize emergency exercises. In most of those plans and exercises, spontaneous volunteers and their initiatives that emerge in the case of a disaster, are not taken into account. However, a lot of international research has showed that in most disasters there was a form of spontaneous citizen help. Furthermore, the spontaneous volunteers were potentially very useful to cope with the disaster.
In January 2016, Stijn Pieters, the executive secretary of the CIP Institute, gave a keynote on Complex Interactive Processes and communicating nuclear risks at Borsele in the Netherlands.
More webinars are coming up in the next months! Each webinar will be organised and presented by one or more CIP members.
The aim of these webinars is to enable discussion and exchange of knowledge, expertise and ideas amongst the CIP members on current and emergent topics. A webinar can address any specific or general challenge.
One of the six workshops that are part of our CIP Conference 2015 on 3 July 2015 in the University of Amsterdam.
The climate change adaptation and the higher frequency and financial consequences of disasters, are amongst the factors that boost the utilization of the concept of resilience way beyond its original scientific definition.
