Proposal for a domain

Dear all,

Since I’m joining this group slightly later I would like to briefly introduce myself: I have been working for the UN for several years in information management, currently  as the Head of the Resident Coordinator’s office in Blue Nile State, Sudan. I am very interested in applying Semantic Web approaches to humanitarian information management and have published an article on xml.com in this regard:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/12/13/semantic-wikis-and-disaster-relief-operations.html

I’m very keen on contributing to the Incubator Group. But since I haven’t worked with the W3C before, I thought it’s maybe better for me to get an overview first and to wait until specific tasks will be distributed.

However, one proposal I’d like to make at this stage: While, obviously, the deliverables of this project should be applicable to any kind of disaster, I still believe it would be a good idea to have a specific domain or sample crisis to work on and I’d like to suggest to take "influenza pandemic" as such an example for the following reasons: 1) This is an example for a complex and very large scale, potentially even global disaster, thus a good test for the robustness of a system. 2) As you probably know, there is indeed a risk of an upcoming "influenza pandemic", potentially caused by a mutation of the Avian Flu virus, and relevant departments of the UN are already working on the preparation for such a pandemic.

Looking much forward to cooperating with you.

Warm regards,
Soenke


Humanitarian Affairs Liaison Officer
Head of Resident Coordinator's Office 
Damazine, Blue Nile State, Sudan

soenke.ziesche@undp.org
+249-9-12178326



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Received on Friday, 8 June 2007 14:16:00 UTC