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Grant Agreement Nº 313308Grant Agreement • April 1st, 2014
Disasters and large scale emergency incidents present a number of distinct information management challenges. Specifically, data needs differ across stakeholder groupings depending on roles and responsibilities, data needs change across the disaster cycle; whilst the dynamic nature of the environment is not conducive to data sharing. To date the emphasis has been placed on the barriers and obstacles to data sharing amongst professional responders and how inter and intra operability can be enhanced amongst the professional responder community. In contrast, limited emphasis has been afforded to the information needs of the affected community, including the means by which communication flows between professional responders and the affected community could be bolstered in order to improve situational awareness. Moreover, greater emphasis needs to be placed on information sharing between professional responders and volunteer responders from within the affected community, in order to more ef
