Breakout Session 3
Community Response
Chair: Bruce Davis
Co-Chairs: Nalini
Venkatasubramanian, Nancy Suski
• Goals:
Community Response
– Identify challenges and opportunities associated with exploiting
community resources (both IT as well as social networking) for
emergency management
– Define the functional gaps in current UICDS capability that
prevent leverage of community resources for improved
situational awareness and emergency response.
• Issues:
– What do we mean by local IT resources and social
networking?
– How are social networks used prior to, during, and after a
disaster?
– What is the technical nature of these networks?
– What risks do emergency response organizations incur by using
these networks; what are some mitigation strategies?
– How can these networks be incorporated into & facilitated by
UICDS?
– What is the adverse impact on network participants for
Needed Capabilities (Gaps)
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Local database – parcel data, street data, infrastructure
Geospatial databases – local GIS capability and the associated databases
Private sector database/resources needed – must be easily accessible
CAD Systems – making them talk to each other and to other systems
Vet records/animal identification databases accessing smart chip technology
Population point-in-time demographic - feature resource needed
Hospital availability and resources
NGO & volunteer services resources/capabilities
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Measurements: in the field that can be transmitted through UICDS to a variety of
customers – Monitoring, response, and recovery
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in field sensors – seismic, soil moisture, full meteorological
Real time traffic flow data
Real time vehicle resource assessment
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Emergency management decision support software
Evacuation plan needed and/or implemented by community
Modeling – natural hazard, epidemiological, infrastructure, economic, human response
behavior
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Social Networking sites/assets – blogs, portals, facebook, twitter, myspace, youtube,
movies/photos
Adding the social networking sites to a “Reverse 911” – “Phone trees” – used as an
information source
211 and 311 used in San Bernardino/Riverside – Emergency and Informational reasons
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Challenges
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Governance structure
The feeling of spam
Fraud
Reliability/verification
Who is going to maintain/take ownership of the
system?
Legal liability
How to prevent dependency on this
Sharing security ideas – UICDS comes into play
Real time monitoring systems – “sensor feeds”
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• Where do we want to be in 5 years?
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Need for a preloaded profile that filters information
Dynamically developed intelligent filter
Have the ability to change subscriptions as we move forward
Spatial temporal tagging/tracking information/visualization
Used not just for emergency or exercises
Open source software – opens up the field
Need to contribute to UICDS system through some service oriented web
interface
Measurements in the field
A dynamic and intelligent coupling of infield measuring to models
Models – longer term use (present status)
Situational assessment that can understand trends – driven by the in situ
awareness tools
Resource tracking
NGO & volunteer services resources/capabilities
Alerting vs Activating
How do we tap into these resources?
Appropriate teaming/organization of government to leverage technology
Command & control of ad hoc volunteer groups
Value Added Services
UICDS
User
Community Level Reality Check
• It can be difficult to construct a vision of the future when the present
is not what you want but it is what you know and what you have?
But….
• The reality of the future it seems more possible if you can see the
bridge that gets you there.
– Funding – initial and maintenance
– Training
– Consideration for legacy systems
– And finally,
• It is better to implement one improvement so that it is used fully by
the customer than to vision several possibilities that only just get off
the ground.
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