TY - GEN
T1 - Evaluation of disaster management portals
T2 - 2011 6th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2011
AU - Chua, Alton Y.K.
AU - Balkunje, Radhika Shenoy
AU - Goh, Dion Hoe Lian
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Even though knowledge management has been applied to study disaster relief efforts, the extent to which knowledge management has been incorporated into disaster management portals has yet to attract any scholarly attention. The purpose of this paper is therefore two-fold. One, it seeks to develop a KM framework for disaster management portals. Two, with this framework, it seeks to construct a checklist and demonstrate its utility by evaluating 60 disaster management portals from the North American and the Asian region. Findings revealed statistically significant differences in the knowledge management implementation level between the two regions. The findings also helped to identify the essential knowledge management features that these portals should support. This research not only highlights the usefulness of a knowledge management perspective in managing digital information but also serves as a template to design disaster management portals.
AB - Even though knowledge management has been applied to study disaster relief efforts, the extent to which knowledge management has been incorporated into disaster management portals has yet to attract any scholarly attention. The purpose of this paper is therefore two-fold. One, it seeks to develop a KM framework for disaster management portals. Two, with this framework, it seeks to construct a checklist and demonstrate its utility by evaluating 60 disaster management portals from the North American and the Asian region. Findings revealed statistically significant differences in the knowledge management implementation level between the two regions. The findings also helped to identify the essential knowledge management features that these portals should support. This research not only highlights the usefulness of a knowledge management perspective in managing digital information but also serves as a template to design disaster management portals.
KW - digital information
KW - disaster management
KW - evaluation
KW - knowledge management
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U2 - 10.1109/ICDIM.2011.6093347
DO - 10.1109/ICDIM.2011.6093347
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:83755181670
SN - 9781457715389
T3 - 2011 6th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2011
SP - 42
EP - 47
BT - 2011 6th International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2011
Y2 - 26 September 2011 through 28 September 2011
ER -