On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Heather Leson wrote:

HI folks, We would love to see some research focused on Ushahidi at ISCRAM. Take a look below and contact Chris or myself to build the plans together

Heather

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From: Jennifer Chan <jlc763@...>
Date: Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:26 AM
Subject: Fwd: ISCRAM 2014
To: Heather Leson <Hleson@...>

FYI for those with the Ushahid Research group. 

jc

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From: "Andrea H. Tapia" <atapia@...>

Subject: ISCRAM 2014

Date: August 1, 2013 12:54:04 PM CDT

To: Andrej Verity <verity@...>

Cc: Jennifer Chan <jlc763@...>

 

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

 

CONFERENCE THEME: Empowering Citizens and Communities through Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

iscram2014.org

 

Conference Dates:  May 18-21 2014

Penn State University, USA

 

Each year, ISCRAM brings together top researchers and practitioners working in the area of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management. The conference provides an excellent opportunity to exchange information and knowledge on new research and discuss best practices.

 

We invite you to submit papers for the following tracks:

 

Analytical Modeling and Simulation

Community Engagement in Crisis Informatics Research

Command and Control Studies

Decision Support Systems

Disaster Relief Supply Chain Management

Ethical, Legal and Social Issues of IT Supported Emergency Response

Geographic Information Science

Humanitarian Information Systems

Intelligent Systems

Planning, Foresight and Risk Analysis

Practitioner Cases and Practitioner- Centered Research

Serious Games for Crisis Management

Social Media in Crisis Response and Management

Visual Analytics for Crisis Management

 

(See individual track calls at www.iscram2014.org)

 

Contributions

ISCRAM2014 invites two categories of papers. All paper submissions must be relevant to ISCRAM, make a new and significant contribution to the body of knowledge on information systems for emergency management, support their contribution with valid arguments, and be clearly structured and well written.

●      Research papers presenting valid, original, relevant cutting edge research that will be reviewed to the highest academic standards. Reviewing will pay additional attention to the application of the related scientific literature and theory, to the use of an appropriate research methodology, and to technical, mathematical and statistical correctness. This will be complemented by a review from a member of the Scientific Committee (SC).

●      Insights from the Practice of Emergency Management papers presenting new developments in emergency management and policy making, discussing approaches, methods, tools, (best) practices and standards. These papers should focus on practical issues and concerns and raise challenges for future research, and will be reviewed to the highest practice-oriented standards.

 

According to the completeness of work, authors can choose to submit their work as

●      Full papers presenting completed work. Such papers should be no more than 10 pages including figures & tables (~5000 words).

●      Short papers presenting work in progress and novel approaches that are being developed. Such papers should be no more than 5 pages with figures & tables (~2500 words).

 

For each type of paper, submissions are welcome from academics, researchers, practitioners, technical or other experts, policy makers, or other professionals in the emergency management domain. The proceedings will identify the type of submission and reviewing process chosen.

 

Other forms of contributions: Separate calls are or will be made for workshops (online: http://iscram2014.ist.psu.edu/node/36), panels, posters, demonstrations, and the doctoral consortium. All calls will be published on iscram2014.org.

 

TO SUBMIT A PAPER:

1.     Read through the track calls on the conference website http://iscram2014.ist.psu.edu/node/5 and select the track which is closest to the topic of your paper.  If you cannot decide if your paper “fits” in a specific track, message the corresponding track chair with your title and a draft abstract, for his or her advice. Or, message the program and conference chairs at iscram2014@iscram.org

2.     Authors must submit papers electronically through the conference system. The link to the submission system will be available on the website in August.)

3.     All papers must use the ISCRAM paper template and follow the ISCRAM house style. The template will be available through the conference system and on the conference homepage.

 

 

Important dates

●      Call for papers/website live - July 2013

●      Deadline for panel proposals – Nov. 15th (decision by December 15)

●      Deadline for full papers – Nov. 15th (decision by Jan. 6th)

●      Deadline for shorter submissions (work-in-progress papers, poster proposals) - Jan. 13th (decision by Feb. 10)

●      FINAL camera-ready full papers – Feb. 7

●      FINAL camera-ready short papers – Feb. 24

●      Final decisions made by program and scientific committee, and authors notified by March 15.

●      At least one author must be registered for the conference and payment must be received by April 1 so work on the schedule and proceedings can begin.

 

ISCRAM 2014

Contact: iscram2014@iscram.org

Conference Chair: Andrea Tapia, The Pennsylvania State University

Program Chair: Starr Roxanne Hiltz, NJIT

 

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Heather Leson
Director of Community Engagement
Ushahidi
hleson@...
www.ushahidi.com and https://wiki.ushahidi.com
@heatherleson / skype: heatherleson