Deploying the digital aid framework: a non-traditionalist view of the intrinsic nature of e-business solutions for humanitarian relief

Author

Sargent, Jason

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Comput. Sci., Wollongong Univ., NSW

fYear

2005

fDate

12-18 Oct. 2005

Firstpage

642

Lastpage

645

Abstract

Commercial Fortune 500 companies come readily to mind in any discussion or categorization of global e-businesses. However, organizations within the international humanitarian relief sector such as UNHCR, the UN´s refugee agency, are consistently over-looked or underestimated as global `e-Biz´ players. This paper acts as a primer for the principles of e-business for humanitarian relief by presenting deployment examples of traditional e-business processes in non-traditional contexts; refugee and internally displaced person (IDP) crises. Preliminary research indicates such illustrated indicative examples detailed in the digital aid framework have potential for easy adoption and integration into future humanitarian (refugee & IDP) relief interventions

Keywords

electronic commerce; emergency services; public administration; Fortune 500 companies; IDP; UN refugee agency; UNHCR; digital aid framework; e-Biz players; e-business; internally displaced person; international humanitarian relief sector; Business; Computer science; Electronic learning; Electronics packaging; Information technology; International collaboration; Logistics; Management training; Service oriented architecture; Strategic planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

e-Business Engineering, 2005. ICEBE 2005. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2430-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEBE.2005.49

Filename

1552964