Preparedness and Response in the Century of Disasters: Overview of Information Systems Research Frontiers

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Abbasi, Ahmed; Dillon, Robin; Rao, H. Raghav; Sheng, Olivia R. Liu
• 署名单位: University of Notre Dame; Georgetown University; University of Texas System; University of Texas at San Antonio; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
• 刊物名称: INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7047
• DOI: 10.1287/isre.2024.intro.v35.n2
• 发表日期: 2024
• 关键词: risk

摘要

The Century of Disasters refers to the increased frequency, complexity, and magnitude of natural and man-made disasters witnessed in the 21st century: the impact of such disasters is exacerbated by infrastructure vulnerabilities, population growth/urbanization, and a challenging policy landscape. Technology-enabled disaster management (TDM) has an important role to play in the Century of Disasters. We highlight four important trends related to TDM, smart technologies and resilience, digital humanitarianism, integrated decisionsupport and agility, and artificial intelligence-enabled early warning systems, and how the confluence of these trends lead to four research frontiers for information systems researchers. We describe these frontiers, namely the technology-preparedness paradox, socio-technical crisis communication, predicting and prescribing under uncertainty, and fair pipelines, and discuss how the eight articles in the special section are helping us learn about these frontiers.