Re: collective intelligence and emergency management

Paola,

Hi.  I am not sure if this is what you are looking for but it seems a
little on track.  It deals with the concept of social behaviors in an
emergency situation.  Mainly, it applies to evacuations.  I suppose one way
to look at it would be to understand group (collective) knowledge during a
disaster, and how it is measured and spreads to members of a particular
social group.  Please take a look at this paper as an example:

(See attached file: HARE.MOJA.MIZU.WIAP-BPM-2007.pdf)

Another way of looking at it, would be to discuss the communication impact
a disaster has on different types of flow control models (evacuations).
Outside of the psychological and communication aspects of an disaster event
is to look at it from the intelligence side of things.  Meaning, HUMINT
from a military point of view.  Any thoughts?

-Steve

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Greets

Is there any such thing as collective intelligence?

I take this opportunity to invite submissions from the Emergency
Management community for the Human Collective Intelligence track  at
IEEE/DEST 2009 which I am chairing



http://www.ieee-dest.curtin.edu.au/2009/index.php



Look forward to contributions from this area of work



best

Paola Di Maio










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