Breakout Session 3 Community Response Chair: Bruce Davis Co-Chairs: Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Nancy Suski

Community Response Goals : –Identify challenges and opportunities associated with exploiting community resources (both IT as well as social networking) for emergency management –Define the functional gaps in current UICDS capability that prevent leverage of community resources for improved situational awareness and emergency response. Issues: –What do we mean by local IT resources and social networking? –How are social networks used prior to, during, and after a disaster? –What is the technical nature of these networks? –What risks do emergency response organizations incur by using these networks; what are some mitigation strategies? –How can these networks be incorporated into & facilitated by UICDS? –What is the adverse impact on network participants for government use of this network.

Needed Capabilities (Gaps) Local database – parcel data, street data, infrastructure Real time database access on evacuees – real time people tracking Geospatial databases Private sector database/resources needed – must be easily accessible CAD Systems Vet records/animal identification databases accessing smart chip technology Population/ point in time Demographic/feature resource needed Hospital availability and resources “in field sensors” Real time traffic flow data Real time vehicle resource assessment Emergency management decision support software Measurements in the field that can be linked to UICDS Evacuation plan needed by community Modeling – “Flood maps” NGO capability/resources Social Networking sites/assets – blogs, portals, facebook, twitter, myspace, youtube, movies/photos Adding the social networking sites to a “Reverse 911” – “Phone trees” – used as an information source 211 and 311 used in San Bernardino/Riverside – Emergency and Informational reasons 3

Challenges Governance structure The feeling of spam Fraud Reliability/verification Who is going to maintain/take ownership of the system? Legal liability How to prevent dependency on this Sharing security ideas – UICDS comes into play Real time monitoring systems – “sensor feeds” 4

Recommendations 5 - Development of common reference database - Catalogue of capabilities of each group – National Information Exchange Model - Common standards need to be developed for play/input – minimum core sharing - Incentives to participate - $$$$/technical support provided - Implementation guidance - User training