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Olaffson on Learning from Information from Disasters
Gisli Olaffson discusses making information management more efficient so that those involved with disaster management can identify best practices.
Ky Luu: Looking at the future here and your role in it with regard to, whether it’s the UNDAC teams or the Icelandic USAR teams that are deployed, what impact do you want to have?
Gisli Olafsson: I think what I’m looking at from my personal point of view is that I really want us to start to learn from what we do. I keep going to yet another disaster and I see that we’re still doing the same mistakes, we’re still reinventing the wheel every time. Especially when it comes to areas like information management. How do we capture the information about what’s going on, and how do we share that out to as wide an audience as possible? Unfortunately every disaster I come to, we are reinventing the - what information are we going to gather, how are we going to do it? I see people creating new Excel Sheets for capturing the same data, and you go, like, “yeah, but we just did this a month ago or 2 months ago,” and you go, like, there must be a way in which we can start capturing these best practices, and we can actually not just identify the lessons that we need to learn, but actually learn from them.
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