Workshop on Organisation & Communication
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Agenda and presentations and Location
This workshop was jointly organized by the City of Cologne and Fraunhofer FIT. It was hosted at the newly built fire brigade training centre of the City of Cologne and the Bonn-Aachen International Centre for Information Technology in Bonn (b-it).
The first session dealt with the different levels of organization as they appear in decentralized systems as well as processes that are supported by some centralized services. Central components and their impact on the overall performance of the entire system were presented in this session.
The second session focussed on best practices for organizational structures as well as the utilization of technical services and relief operations on a voluntary basis. The latter issue is of particular interest for Germany, since the number of voluntary fire fighters is more than six times the number of full-time fire fighters. This session included further presentations of best practices for specific risks and referred to the lessons learnt from specific incidents.
The third session addressed new technologies and future perspectives. The range of topics included the safety of communication and computer networks, new devices for communication to the public, communication backbones and process management approaches for the formal analysis of risk management processes.
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