Emergency Management’s Journey with Technology

Eric E. Holdeman ()
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Eric E. Holdeman: Eric Holdeman Associates

A chapter in Disaster Management and Information Technology, 2023, pp 3-23 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There is no one single journey when it comes to technology. For those who did not grow up as “digital natives” each has taken their own path in accepting, developing technological skills and expanding them by integrating them into their everyday work environment. Indeed, the journey continues with no hard-set destination before us. We only know that technological development and use of technology continue to expand exponentially with each passing day. What follows is therefore just one American perspective on how the profession of emergency management has adopted technologies over the decades in which the profession has existed. All the while, working daily to plan for, train, and practice for future emergency and disaster response events that are sure to come.

Keywords: Emergencies; Disasters; Catastrophes; History of emergency management; Emergency Operations Center; EOC; Mobile technologies; Alert and warning systems; Modern information technologies; Situational awareness; Common operating picture; COP; Rapid damage assessment; Technology aversion; Data management; Disaster information management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20939-0_1

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