Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

MARCH 11, 2020

It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. Therefore, the world community must take action immediately." McCaw 2007. PLoS One 2007:2(11): e1220, 1-6.

2005 52

2005 2007 2003 2020 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JULY 29, 2019

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Arbitrary rule is, of course, nothing new, but what is new is the role of networked electronic communication. Bird et al.

Information 52

Information Social Media 2010 2019 52

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. I have taught it every year since then. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

2008 52

2008 2016 2017 2020 52

Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.

Social Media 40

Social Media Sustainability 2011 2010 40