June 18, 2011, 8.30am-11.10nn, Andrew Hall 903
The lounge lecture is intended to provide new perspectives and widen views on disaster management, particularly touching the areas of emergency management, volunteers and disaster policy. The lounge lecture includes two distinguished visiting scholars from Florida State University and a researcher from the College of Computer Studies as main speakers. This activity hopes to inject new ideas to our IT and CS graduate and undergraduate students, reflect upon on how ICT can be carried out in the area of disaster management and its impact to our society.
About the Speakers
Dr. Audrey Heffron-Casserleigh is presently the Director of the Center for Disaster Risk Policy of Florida State University. Her areas of dedicated research include manmade disasters and the organizational behavior of terrorist networks. She will provide significant points on how organizations should prepare on occasions of a pandemic or emergency incident and the importance of disaster policies in placed.
Dr. Ralph Brower is a Fullbright Professor and the Director of the Center for Civic and Non-Profit Leadership in Florida State University. He will provide an eye-opener on the impact of non-profit and volunteer organization to emergency response and/or community development.
Mavic Pineda is a researcher of the ICT4D-PLC and has pioneered studies on disaster management in the College of Computer Studies of DLSU. She will provide new ideas of harnessing community knowledge (and perceptions) of disaster to reduce vulnerability, one of the projects she is involved in at present.
The lounge lecture is also open to the academic community.
For details, please coordinate with Ervin Samoza or Hazel Ventura at local 301.
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