"Since taking on the EU crisis response role, I've seen every possible disaster – short of an asteroid hitting the Earth – and how, when the effects are intensified by climate change, demographic growth and urbanisation, [they] are hitting more people than ever," said commissioner Kristalina Georgieva, responsible for international co-operation, humanitarian aid and crisis response.
Open data, social networks, and volunteered geographic information are playing an increasing role in crisis response.
The need for proactive outreach and better planning, training, accreditation, and support for the specialist role of crisis response workers started to increase.
Security actors because of their prominent role in crisis response were often barraged by a wide array of NGO workers, politicians, and agency representatives requesting partnership or a strategy change.
Facebook's feature, which aims to help people make contact and reassure friends and family, is just one part of an expanding role for technology in crisis response.
For Mandy Pifer, a psychotherapist and longtime member of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti's crisis response team, the massacre in San Bernardino meant a heartbreaking role reversal.
Her dissertation investigates the role of military assistance in a health crisis response.
They are part of the larger Crisis Response feature.
The scale and complexity of volcanic crisis response results in decision-making involving people who differ in their profession, expertise, functions, roles and geographical location.
The SPD's Frank-Walter Steinmeier supported EU Treaty change and a prominent role for the European Court of Justice, but did not elaborate more on what the SPD's crisis response would look like.
While crowdsourced technologies, such as crowdcomputing, will continue to play a big role in processing big crisis data, but crowdcomputing alone will not be enough the efficiency of the crisis response can be significantly enhanced if the crowds are also complemented by the machines.
