Developments in Disaster Recovery

Yet another article from First Monday

Volunteers eager to help disaster victims have begun to draw on open source models of organization to mobilize and coordinate vast resources from around the world. This paper investigates two such groundbreaking efforts, involving responses to Hurricane Katrina and to the South East Asian tsunami. The study sheds light on how these organizations evolve so rapidly, how leaders emerge and confront challenges, and how interactions with traditional, more hierarchical disaster recovery efforts unfold. Lessons from these early efforts show how they can be improved, and also point to the need for more research on networked non–state actors that are playing increasingly prominent roles.

Pete's Points

This article should be read by anyone who is interested in new developments in the area of Disaster Recovery. As someone trained many years ago in the art of being a Counter Disaster Recovery Manager I find this discussion on new approaches to various aspects of disaster recovery of considerable interest considering the advances that have been made in technology and in the take up of the Internet as a medium for communication and research.

Well worth a read in my view.