IS Mediation of Emergency Management: Adding Prediction to the existing Framework of Activities?

Authors

Andrew Edwards, Macquarie UniversityFollow
Stephen Smith, Macquarie UniversityFollow
Peter Busch, Macquarie UniversityFollow
Vincent Pang, UNSWFollow
Donald Winchester, Aust. Institute of BusinessFollow

Abstract

Fire poses a recurring threat to life and property in every society and common traditions of fire-fighting services and fire emergency management systems have developed over centuries. Such systems now comprise a repository of large datasets gathered from years of fire incidents. Motivated by the devastation caused by a recent major fire emergency in their jurisdiction, the M2inder project was initiated by a statebased fire emergency service organisation to develop a modelling tool using this and other datasets to probabilistically predict where and when fires are likely to occur. The contribution of study presents the findings from a participatory action research (PAR) study of the M2inder project when a team of both practitioners and researchers with varying expertise, was assembled to guide the development of the M2inder system.

Recommended Citation

Edwards, Andrew; Smith, Stephen; Busch, Peter; Pang, Vincent; and Winchester, Donald, "IS Mediation of Emergency Management: Adding Prediction to the existing Framework of Activities?" (2019). PACIS 2019 Proceedings. 52.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2019/52