Hazard Event Planning and Response Technologies

Question 1

Accommodation of various mediums: Through technology, people are able to communicate effectively and efficiently through social media interaction other than the use of flyer, billboards and clipboards. Besides, video sharing builds the relationship and strengthens partnership because every individual connects to the other individual on a deep level. Data is also collected from various mediums and utilized to analyze the needs of the partnership to make it work (Xu, Yen, Lin & Chou, 2002).

It offering an effective storage of information: Communication technology helps people to communicate efficiently, and most importantly, it ensures that the data is well stored. At times, people share sensitive information that needs security. Therefore, technology ensure that every information shared is well stored, and in addition, the information is not misinterpreted because each person gets the information as given by the head, and this builds relationship and partnership (Xu, Yen, Lin & Chou, 2002).

Question 2

It creates social barrier: In the world today, people have transformed to the digital life and they are consumed by the social media. Most people enjoy staring at a cell phone’s LED screen other than engaging in a face-to-face conversation (Yates & Paquette, 2011). Similarly, they better express their feelings in the social media than physically expressing it to other people. This therefore shows how technology is a barrier to human interaction.

Too much trust on the internet: Internet has proved to be excellent in executing thing. Business partners communicate, sell their products and service, pay online and the delivery is done online. Therefore, given that the procedure is fast and reliable, many people rely on it and can stay in their offices or homes and have what they need done without physically meeting with anybody, hence technology has become a barrier to human interaction.

Question 3

Strong partnerships and interpersonal coordination rely upon dependable C4I capabilities for business progress. This is because, C4I helps them in decision making process as well as determining what the future has for the business, and this makes the partnership to be more effective in executing what future has for them and preventing possible negative impact they may encounter. C4I reinforces these relationships by providing situational awareness that explains the location and the condition of their friendly and enemy forces to attract preparedness (Kasunic, 2001).

Question 4

It is important to move with the moving technology even in the emergency management and operations. Therefore, an emergency manager needs to leverage the technology by introducing Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a database system that helps in emergency response, recovery, response, mitigation, homeland security and planning. In addition, the emergency manager can introduce Cellular Wireless networking, radio frequency and automatic multimodal public notification.

Question 5

During a crisis, a community can maintain sufficient communication with these centers by being active to receive any notification and respond promptly. They can utilize the Cellular Wireless networking to provide a specific and easy numbers for anyone in emergency situation to dial. There should be active personnel placed for receiving such calls and another active set of members to respond to the emergency. They should also introduce a website or a social media page where people in emergency can air their situation and have someone to attend to them immediately.        

Question 6

A type of technology that might aid command and control is the ShotSpotter technology. It is a system that detects gunshot and locates the gunfire around its area of installation. Sensors, which are basically sensitive microphone can be installed around the city to pick gunfire sounds, and with the help of the sensors, emergency managers can exactly locate the location in which the shots are fired. The selection is based on the fact that it is easy to manage security because one can easily detect insecurity and act before people are injured.

References

Kasunic, M. (2001). Measuring systems interoperability: Challenges and opportunities. Carnegie-Mellon Univ Pittsburgh Pa Software Engineering Inst.

Xu, Y., Yen, D. C., Lin, B., & Chou, D. C. (2002). Adopting customer relationship management technology. Industrial management & data systems, 102(8), 442-452.

Yates, D., & Paquette, S. (2011). Emergency knowledge management and social media technologies: A case study of the 2010 Haitian earthquake. International journal of information management, 31(1), 6-13.