Abstract
The continuously increasing frequency of natural disasters makes an efficient organization of relief missions an important target for public safety. In Austria, the regular armed forces, militia units as their reserve, and different civil first responder organizations support such missions. All of them represent important stakeholders for the restoration of public safety. Disaster relief missions need to fulfill demanding requirements and high standards, especially when considering (military) information security. Several digital processes during and after such operations already satisfy these norms, whereas preparatory ones still require improvement. The literature survey included in this paper is therefore intended to provide the foundation for further digitalization of disaster recovery operations by supporting collaboration between a variety of stakeholders. A typical collaboration stretches over several dimensions. This paper focuses on discussing the dimension communication support. The literature survey identifies the requirements, and is followed by a description of a prototype. Interested organizations can readily adopt or adapt the presented results for disaster recovery missions in Austria.
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A military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency (for details see https://www.bundesheer.at/sk/miliz/index.shtml).
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Active defense in this case means establishing perimeter security, such as building up dams and securing objectives as well as arranging emergency shelters and deploying bases of operations.
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Hechenberger, P., Fahrnberger, G., Quirchmayr, G. (2021). An Approach to Supporting Militia Collaboration in Disaster Relief Through a Digital Environment. In: Krieger, U.R., Eichler, G., Erfurth, C., Fahrnberger, G. (eds) Innovations for Community Services. I4CS 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1404. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75004-6_4
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