[iDC] Civic intelligence in Haiti Recovery?

[Felicia Sullivan]

There is also some research on disasters, chaos theory, complexity and
self-organization that might be of interest:

Comfort, LK (1994).  Self-organization in Complex Systems. Journal of Public
Administration Research and Theory. 4(3): 393-410.

Koehler, GA (1995). What Disaster Response Management Can Learn From Chaos
Theory: Overview.  California Research Bureau Conference Proceedings, May
18-19, 1995.  Accessed on February 15, 2010 at:
http://www.library.ca.gov/crb/96/05/over_2.html


On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Erhardt Graeff <erhardt at gmail.com> wrote:

>  My good friend Kevin Adler, wrote a piece called *The Structural and
> Cultural Impact of Natural Disasters on Social Capital: Exploring Community
> Life after the 2008 Flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa *that might be relevant.
>
>
> http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/3/6/4/5/8/p364584_index.html
>
> Best,
> Erhardt
>
> ----
> Erhardt Graeff
> http://erhardtgraeff.com
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Douglas Schuler <
> douglas at publicsphereproject.org> wrote:
>
>> distributed creativity....
>>
>> A friend of mine is planning to volunteer in Haiti with Architecture
>> for Humanity in March or April. He plans to work with construction
>> workers and other skilled people on reconstruction. He is also
>> interested in IT and the development of the communications and the
>> general SOCIAL infrastructure after the emergency.
>>
>> I told him that my own knowledge of this is pretty shallow I'd ask
>> around in places where the knowledge is likely to be deeper. Are there
>> important, interesting projects that he (and others) should know about?
>>
>> In addition to hoping that the people of Haiti can recover from this
>> and lead lives with less hardship in the future I'm interested in
>> understanding civic intelligence, particularly how it can be improved
>> -- inside and outside of Haiti, in non-emergency and emergency
>> situations. I'm working on a theory (or "theory frame") of civic
>> intelligence so any insights you have on this -- as well as notes from
>> the Haiti emergency -- would be extremely welcome.
>>
>> Please get back to me with your thoughts on this as soon as you get
>> the opportunity.
>>
>> BTW, our "Civic Intelligence" pattern is at
>> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/drupal/node/200
>>  and our "Emergency Communication Systems" pattern is at
>> http://www.publicsphereproject.org/drupal/node/320
>> .
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> Douglas Schuler
>> douglas at publicsphereproject.org
>>
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Felicia M. Sullivan
Doctoral Candidate
PhD Program in Public Policy
John W. McCormack Graduate School
University of Massachusetts Boston
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