scholarly journals A Philanthropic Approach to Supporting Emergent Disaster Response and Recovery

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 158-160
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Schlegelmilch ◽  
Jonathan Sury ◽  
Jeremy Brooks ◽  
Thomas Chandler
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
The Us ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Support Mechanisms ◽  
Private Donations ◽  
Federal Assistance ◽  
Disaster Response And Recovery

ABSTRACTIn August 2017, Hurricane Harvey struck the US Gulf Coast and caused more than US $125 billion in damages in Texas. The loss of lives and the economic damages resulted in an outpouring of support for the recovery efforts in the form of federal assistance and private donations. The latter has supported more creative approaches to recovery. Organizations that normally would not receive funding were able to obtain resources to use in novel manners. Using the framework of Dynes typology to identify groups and their respective structures and tasks, this report from the field analyzes Hurricane Harvey and the financial support mechanisms used to support recovery efforts in Texas, what organizations were funded to do, and where they fit into Dynes typology. The authors close by noting the importance of these emerging organizations and the need to support diversity in funding disaster response and recovery efforts beyond large nonprofit organizations.

scholarly journals Team Activity of Robot Competition of Simulated Robot in World Robot Summit 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 04016
Author(s):  
Daichi Shima ◽  
Tomoyuki Furukawa ◽  
Ryuma Aoba ◽  
Ayato Ohashi ◽  
Kota Tsuruno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Response ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Response Category ◽  
Robot System ◽  
Tunnel Fire ◽  
Autonomous Operation ◽  
Team Activity ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Disaster Response And Recovery

World Robot Summit (WRS) has several robot competitions, and we will participate it in the infrastructure and disaster response category. Participating teams develop their robot system by teleoperation and/or autonomous operation and run it in a set of courses modelling and simplifying disaster responding situations. The authors will attend the challenge of the tunnel disaster response and recovery, in which we are requested to achieve an investigation and rescue scenario of a tunnel fire with simulated robots. As preparation, we develop simulated robot models and corresponding software as a team. In this article, we report out activity to the robot competition and student’s project-based learning by joining it.

scholarly journals A Case Study of Crowdsourcing Imagery Coding in Natural Disasters

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cobi Alison Smith
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Real World ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Disaster Response And Recovery

Crowdsourcing and open licensing allow more people to participate in research and humanitarian activities. Open data, such as geographic information shared through OpenStreetMap and image datasets from disasters, can be useful for disaster response and recovery work. This chapter shares a real-world case study of humanitarian-driven imagery analysis, using open-source crowdsourcing technology. Shared philosophies in open technologies and digital humanities, including remixing and the wisdom of the crowd, are reflected in this case study.

The Promise of Direct-to-Consumer Telehealth for Disaster Response and Recovery

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lori Uscher-Pines ◽  
Shira Fischer ◽  
Ramya Chari
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Publication Type ◽  
Direct To Consumer ◽  
Acute Response ◽  
Virtual Visits ◽  
Response And Recovery ◽  
Disaster Response And Recovery

AbstractTelehealth has great promise to improve and even revolutionize emergency response and recovery. Yet telehealth in general, and direct-to-consumer (DTC) telehealth in particular, are underutilized in disasters. Direct-to-consumer telehealth services allow patients to request virtual visits with health care providers, in real-time, via phone or video conferencing (online video or mobile phone applications). Although DTC services for routine primary care are growing rapidly, there is no published literature on the potential application of DTC telehealth to disaster response and recovery because these services are so new. This report presents several potential uses of DTC telehealth across multiple disaster phases (acute response, subacute response, and recovery) while noting the logistical, legal, and policy challenges that must be addressed to allow for expanded use.Uscher-PinesL, FischerS, ChariR. The promise of direct-to-consumer telehealth for disaster response and recovery. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016;31(4):454–456.

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