Here's a conference devoted to ICTs in emergency situations. Quite germane, with the Katrina experience. Murray Turoff's note is below. Contact him at NJIT Info Sci for more info about this conference. Historical note: One of the first "computerized conferencing" systems, EIES, was developed by Murray Turoff when he worked for US Civil Defense (now FEMA) in the early 1970s. Barry _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 You're invited to visit -- and contribute to -- my new fun website "Updating Cybertimes: It's Time to Bring Our Culture into Cyberspace" http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 01:44:56 -0400 From: Murray Turoff <murray.turoff@gmail.com> Reply-To: turoff@njit.edu To: Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> Subject: ISCRAM program Barry We have accepted 60 very excellent papers for ISCRAM and they cover a wide variety of multidisciplinary topics. I encourage you to brows the program list of papers at http://www.iscram.org/doc/ISCRAM2006Program.pdf We also have three top notch keynoters and a panel on the Katrina Experience. The papers and half the current 130 registrations are form outside the United States. Papers on such topics as Information Systems or Communication system requirements, early warning systems, new satellite applications, personal area networks/sensors for first responders, visualization of complex data, interagency communications, command and control, etc. I am sure you would enjoy the meeting, but even if you cannot make it I would appreciate you forwarding this to others you might know who might be interested. I suspect we will hit 250 attendees and have to stop registration around that point. We have allowed a half hour for each paper to facilitate questions and discussion. We also have exhibit tables and other sponsorship options. If you would like a one page flyer which more fully describes the speakers let me know. http://is.njit.edu/turoff