The 5th Spatial Sociocultural Knowledge Workshop

Events

The 5th Spatial Sociocultural Knowledge Workshop

Event date: 19 June 2012
Event end date: 19 June 2012

Location:

Defence Academy of the United Kingdom - Shrivenham

Enhancing situational awareness and understanding for stabilisation and disaster relief operations

Aim

To provide a forum to bring together experts from the stabilisation, disaster relief and geospatial communities to develop the case for a shared understanding of how geography can be used to support stabilisation and disaster relief operations.

Objectives

To investigate the need for a shared geospatial framework in anticipation of stabilisation and disaster relief operations

What is required
What exists
How to organise it
Who authorises it

To investigate the challenges in achieving a shared geography during the planning, conduct and evaluation of stabilisation and disaster relief operations

How to provide and share it
How to get it to those who need it most quickly
How to ensure it is relevant, current, can be updated, and still authoritative
How to make it available to non-expert users

Who should attend?

Stabilisation operations combine military, political and development actions. The workshop will be of interest to subject experts in the fields of stabilisation and humanitarian support, geospatial providers and academics. Participants will have an opportunity to exchange ideas with practitioners in the various fields represented, offer challenges to the experts and learn about developments in the field of geospatial support to the stabilisation community.

The format of the workshop will consist of a combination of presentations and facilitated discussions.

Call for presentations

Proposals for presentations, based on one or more of the Workshop objectives, are invited from interested parties. Please provide an abstract of a maximum of 250 words to Susan Enscore (Susan.I.Enscore@usace.army.mil) by 17 March 2012.