Overall Themes/Tensions for the Paper 2/8

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Overall Themes/Tensions for the Paper2/8

• Lack of technology infrastructure
• Diversity, flexibility, individual volunteer
  motivation, non-profit, individual expertise and
  experience
• Short-term, rapid response

• Information ecology
• Increased central coordination (intra inter),
  efficiency, standards, common advocacy,
  accountability, assessment, lessons learned,
  knowledge management
• Long-term, proactive strategy, create
  infrastructure

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Common Conclusions about Humanitarian Relief
Systems

• ICS focused not on technology but on how people
  use information to accomplish their goals can
  help HROs overcome communication and logistical
  barriers
• Need for increased central coordination
  (without sacrificing what motivates individual
  volunteers and non-profit organizations)
• Need for standards (within diversity)
• Need for proactive strategy (in support of
  reactive operations/emergency responseflexible
  but not ad hoc)
• Need for better advocacy
• Need for accountability and assessments

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More conclusions

• Need for knowledge management and dissemination
  of lessons learnedmoving from solely a doing
  organization to also being a knowledge
  organization