3 research outputs found
Crowdsourcing as a tool for urban emergency management: lessons from the literature and typology
Recently, citizen involvement has been increasingly used in urban disaster prevention and
management, taking advantage of new ubiquitous and collaborative technologies. This scenario has
created a unique opportunity to leverage the work of crowds of volunteers. As a result, crowdsourcing
approaches for disaster prevention and management have been proposed and evaluated. However,
the articulation of citizens, tasks, and outcomes as a continuous flow of knowledge generation reveals
a complex ecosystem that requires coordination efforts to manage interdependencies in crowd work.
To tackle this challenging problem, this paper extends to the context of urban emergency management
the results of a previous study that investigates how crowd work is managed in crowdsourcing
platforms applied to urban planning. The goal is to understand how crowdsourcing techniques
and quality control dimensions used in urban planning could be used to support urban emergency
management, especially in the context of mining-related dam outages. Through a systematic literature
review, our study makes a comparison between crowdsourcing tools designed for urban planning and
urban emergency management and proposes a five-dimension typology of quality in crowdsourcing,
which can be leveraged for optimizing urban planning and emergency management processes
Systematic approach to cyber resilience operationalization in SMEs
The constantly evolving cyber threat landscape is a latent problem for today’s companies. This
is especially true for the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) because they have limited resources
to face the threats but, as a group, represent an extensive payload for cybercriminals to exploit. Moreover, the
traditional cybersecurity approach of protecting against known threats cannot withstand the rapidly evolving
technologies and threats used by cybercriminals. This study claims that cyber resilience, a more holistic
approach to cybersecurity, could help SMEs anticipate, detect, withstand, recover from and evolve after
cyber incidents. However, to operationalize cyber resilience is not an easy task, and thus, the study presents
a framework with a corresponding implementation order for SMEs that could help them implement cyber
resilience practices. The framework is the result of using a variation of Design Science Research in which
Grounded Theory was used to induce the most important actions required to implement cyber resilience and
an iterative evaluation from experts to validate the actions and put them in a logical order. Therefore, this
study proposes that the framework could benefit SME managers to understand cyber resilience, as well as
help them start implementing it with concrete actions and an order dictated by the experience of experts.
This could potentially ease cyber resilience implementation for SMEs by making them aware of what cyber
resilience implies, which dimensions it includes and what actions can be implemented to increase their cyber
resilience
Systematic approach to cyber resilience operationalization in SMEs
The constantly evolving cyber threat landscape is a latent problem for today’s companies. This
is especially true for the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) because they have limited resources
to face the threats but, as a group, represent an extensive payload for cybercriminals to exploit. Moreover, the
traditional cybersecurity approach of protecting against known threats cannot withstand the rapidly evolving
technologies and threats used by cybercriminals. This study claims that cyber resilience, a more holistic
approach to cybersecurity, could help SMEs anticipate, detect, withstand, recover from and evolve after
cyber incidents. However, to operationalize cyber resilience is not an easy task, and thus, the study presents
a framework with a corresponding implementation order for SMEs that could help them implement cyber
resilience practices. The framework is the result of using a variation of Design Science Research in which
Grounded Theory was used to induce the most important actions required to implement cyber resilience and
an iterative evaluation from experts to validate the actions and put them in a logical order. Therefore, this
study proposes that the framework could benefit SME managers to understand cyber resilience, as well as
help them start implementing it with concrete actions and an order dictated by the experience of experts.
This could potentially ease cyber resilience implementation for SMEs by making them aware of what cyber
resilience implies, which dimensions it includes and what actions can be implemented to increase their cyber
resilience