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Towards a Community-Centered Knowledge Management Architecture for Disaster Management in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Disasters in developing nations are typically caused by frequent and intense climate changes, which contribute to the socio-economic vulnerabilities of such nations. It is important to be strategic in the management of disasters in such regions in order to minimize their impact on thriving communities. There is therefore the need for effective disaster response that allows for access, analysis, and integration of information from varied sources. This Chapter presents architecture for managing knowledge on disaster in Sub-Saharan African nations. This architecture captures the critical contextual variables using process view of knowledge management to assist citizens who are less knowledgeable about disaster management to understand the various forms of knowledge on disaster response while developing extensive knowledge and building capability necessary to address disaster response and management. It also addresses issues with building IT expertise on disaster response in developing nations. More importantly, the architecture facilitates the creation, storage/retrieval, transfer, and application of knowledge on disaster response and management especially for ordinary citizens. The architecture also helps overcome issues with lack of collaboration and coordination across disaster response and management agencies.

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  1. Department of Computer Information Systems & Quantitative Methods, College of Business Administration, University of Texas—Pan American, Edinburg, TX, USA

    Babajide Osatuyi & Francis Kofi Andoh-Baidoo

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  2. Department of Computing, University of the West Indies, Mona, Mona Campus, Jamaica

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  3. Mona School of Business, University of the West Indies, Mona, Mona Campus, Jamaica

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Osatuyi, B., Andoh-Baidoo, F.K. (2014). Towards a Community-Centered Knowledge Management Architecture for Disaster Management in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Osei-Bryson, KM., Mansingh, G., Rao, L. (eds) Knowledge Management for Development. Integrated Series in Information Systems, vol 35. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7392-4_2

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