Using cyberspace to enhance disaster mitigation, planning and response : Opportunities and limitations

ABSTRACT

The new information technologies will, no doubt, be more effectively used in the future. The current generation of web sites, only hint at their potential. Web sites could list such individuals, along with their email addresses and telephone numbers at which they could be paged 24-hours-a-day. In addition, information could be provided in cyberspace which provides an all-hazards check list of what the emerging EOC should consider during pre-impact, impact, post-impact periods. The purpose of the current paper is to offer a few suggestions in answer questions like How might the educational processs, be more effectively facilitated to potentially involve all of us? How might we develop a process, which might also enable practitioners to interact with one another and with researchers during emergency time periods to employ the knowledge and experience of others at a critically useful time? and to raise a few important issues, which may be useful to keep in mind pursuant to implementing answers to these questions