Daniel Link

University of Münster | WWU · Department of Information Systems

Although online social media has been recognized as a source of information that is potentially relevant for humanitarian organizations, it remains to demonstrate positive impact. The authors argue that relevant information isn't yet incorporated effectively into decision-making because the key role of humanitarian situation assessment experts and...

Although online social media has been recognized as a source of information that is potentially relevant for humanitarian organizations, it remains to demonstrate positive impact. The authors argue that relevant information isn't yet incorporated effectively into decision-making because the key role of humanitarian situation assessment experts and...

Disaster managers depend on timely and accurate information for task-related decision-making in highly complex and dynamic environments. New data sources, like online social media provide an increasing volume of data that promises improvements in situation awareness. But it remains difficult to focus data collection on information needs and integra...

A rising number of people is affected by disasters, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2013 Philippines super-typhoon, and the 2015 Nepal earthquake. In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, humanitarian decision makers have to assure that action is prompt and targeted although confronted with lack of needed information about the highly comple...

Social media platforms have come into the focus of research as sources of information about the unfolding situation in disaster contexts. Incorporating information from social media into decision-making is still difficult though. One reason may be that the prevalent approach to data analysis works bottom-up, which has several limitations. In this p...

Ports—i.e., airports and seaports—are the main points of entry through which foreign intervention delivers aid into a country that is affected by a disaster. Affected countries are often developing nations, where transport infrastructure is limited and disaster management capacity is considerably lower than in industrialized countries. When develop...

The two relatively new fields—resiliency and preparedness—increasingly show the need to improve the resiliency and preparedness of both seaports and airports. One major problem is the unwillingness of seaports and airports—ports in general—to invest in the redundancy, robustness, and flexibility/agility measures that lead to resiliency. Ports exper...

Humanitarian logistics is a major factor for the success of humanitarian operations, making use of a broad range of infrastructure and resources in highly unstable and volatile environments. Due to the need for accuracy and timeliness, the information must be updated and related to the real variables of the affected area. In this context, volunteer...

Humanitarian logistics assessment aims at quickly gathering accurate information about a disaster-affected area. This includes information about the infrastructure and logistic resources which are required to execute a humanitarian operation. Assessment thus provides a decision basis, e.g. to plan aid deliveries. Despite its relevance, assessment h...

Recent years have shown that mobile devices and Twitter can play a significant role in providing real-time data from disaster-affected areas to disaster managers. Against this background we present a workflow for Twitter integration into a disaster management information system, and a concept for content moderation that can increase the quality of...

In dem Buchkapitel stellen wir die Unterschiede und Schnittstellen zwischen humanitären und kommerziellen Lieferketten vor sowie gehen auf die unterschiedlichen Akteure in der humanitären Logistik ein. Auf dieser Grundlage werden ausgewählte Initiativen der kommerziellen Logistik im humanitären Kontext, aktuelle Herausforderungen und Forschungsrich...

With this book, almost 50 experts from industry, humanitarian organisations and research institutions contribute their knowledge in this highly relevant field. The book includes the latest results from BVL International's Humanitarian Logistics Council (part 1), a working group that discussed the most important topics of humanitarian supply chains...

Die Arbeitsgruppe "IT und Kommunikation" wurde im Rahmen des Arbeitskreises Humanitäre Logistik der BVL gebildet, um Anforderungen an IT-Systeme für die humanitäre Logistik zu untersuchen. Sie setzte sich aus Hilfsorganisationen (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz e.V. und Bundesanstalt Technisches Hilfswerk), Logistikdienstleistern (Kühne + Nagel AG und SpanSe...