End-User Advisory Board

End-User Advisory Board (EAB)

The EAB is a platform by which the experts in the domain of social media and emergency management can share their vision and expertise. They can give feedback and their advice is captured. The information provided is then used by the project team when drawing up various tasks and will form a vital cog in the overall project through a series of surveys, workshops, webinars over the course of the three year project. We are extremeley grateful to those experts who are spending time to assist us.

Members of the EmerGent EAB

Below the names of the experts are listed who attended the first workshop in Poznan in October 2014, hosted by our Polish partner CNBOP-PIB.

Name Role/Function/Interest Organisation Country
As, Niek van PBLQ Crisis Management, Social Media, Information Management, Use/Expectations Citizens Netherlands
Bizjak, Gasper Dispatch Officer/Firefighter – Operational planning, Incident Command Systems, Social Media Usage in Emergency Services Fire Brigade Ljubljana Federation of the European Union Fire Officer Associations Slovenia
Bousema, Alexander Specialised in Emergency Service Access, Interoperability, Social media and ICT Bousema Management Services and Consultancy Netherlands
Bruelemans, Bart Catastrophe Commissioner Antwerp Fire Service Belgium
Brugghemans, Bert Crisis Management, Social Media, Intelligence Antwerp Fire Service Belgium
Coleman, Amanda Head of Corporate Communications Greater Manchester Police United Kingdom
Echeverria, Francisco International affairs APTB (Asociacion Profesional de Técnicos de Bomberos de España) Spain
Harries, Detlev Deputy Chief Officer Dortmund Fire and Ambulance Service Germany
Hof, Rein Early warning signs in Social Media Dutch National Police Netherlands
Ingle, Timothy Detective Sergeant and Project Officer West Yorkshire Police United Kingdom
Lindstrom, Torbjörn Development manager South West Finland Emergency Services Finland
Marczewski, Marcin CEO Resilia Sp.z.o.o. Poland
Maroščikas, Tadas Deputy Director Lithuanian Emergency Response Center Lithuania
Marsella, Stefano National Fire Academy – Director Italian National Fire Corps (CNVVF) Italy
Petter, Franz Strategic planning & Stakeholder of the VGBF Fire service Hamburg Germany
Pfundt, Loek Crisis Management, Social Media, Data Intelligence, Innovations, Duty Chief Officer during Crisis Fire service Amsterdam-Amstelland Netherlands
Przybysz, Monika Marta Associate ProfessorThe Chief of the Public relations and marketing communication Chair in the Institute of Media Education and Journalismpublic relations, crisis management, media, social media, mediatization Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw Poland
Roelof, Muis Teamleader Open Source INTelligence Netherlands
Sebright, Glenn Head of Communications London Fire Brigade United Kingdom
Smits, Gerrie Digital and Social Strategist Belgium

 

Activities

2nd EAB Workshop, 18 November 2015, Wien, Austria

The 2nd EAB Workshop was intended to present the current scientific and  technical status of EmerGent. The workshop started with a discussion of different models for C2A Communication and EAB members worked in groups to identify advantages, disadvantages and possible solutions for each model.

The group later focused on the definition of EmerGent alerts and on what makes an alert from social media, in addition to, how it can be categorised and classified in terms of urgency, severity, certainty etc. The factors for assessing the quality of information from social media were also examined.

A demo of the first prototype of the Emergency Services interface was presented, which led the discussion on its’ functionality and how it can be used in practice. The discussion on the use of the EmerGent ICT solutions continued until the end of the workshop, when experts discussed and concentrated on their expectations from the guidelines for citizens and emergency services, on how to increase the benefit of social media in emergencies.

The EmerGent consortium would like to thank all EAB members for their valuable contributions. EmerGent will focus on extracting the conclusions of the workshop and how the results will drive the upcoming scientific and technical development activities of the project.

 2nd EAB Workshop

 

1st EAB Workshop, 8 October 2014, Poznan, Poland

The 1st EAB workshop was intended to present the objectives of EmerGent and engage the experts in a discussion on the current work undergoing in the project.

First Part: Potentials of social media use for emergency services and citizens

Experts discussed their own and Emergency Service staff attitudes, towards their individual and organisation’s current and future use of social media, as collected during the online survey conducted within EmerGent.

Second Part: EmerGent end user requirements

This session started with the presentation of a real scenario using social media before, during and after a large storm in Antwerp, Belgium. Following the presentation of the beforehand prepared use cases of the system, experts worked in groups to validate and extend the use cases. The discussion of the use cases resulted in numerous end user requirements for the EmerGent system, which are included in the requirements specification document.

Further activities will follow!

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1st EAB Workshop