Call for Papers

7th IFIP WG5.15 Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction (ITDRR-2022)

IFIP WG5.15 event

In cooperation with

Centre for Integrated Emergency Management (CIEM), University of Agder Norway

October 14-16, 2022, Kristiansand, Norway

The conference is to be held hybrid

ITDRR-2022 provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present their latest R&D findings and innovations. The conference is especially focused on the various IT aspects and challenges of copying with disaster risk reduction. ITDDR-2022 invites experts, researchers, academicians and all other who are interested to disseminate their work. The conference establishes an academic environment that fosters the dialogue and exchange of ideas between different levels of academic, research, business, and public communities.

All accepted papers will be published in IFIP AICT series by Springer as post-conference proceedings, and they will be indexed by Scopus.

​The organizers of this conference invite prospective authors to submit high-quality research papers addressing, but not limited to, the following topics of interest:

  • Advanced ICT (IoT, sensors) for disaster management
  • Artificial Intelligence and disasters
  • Climate change and disaster risk
  • Climate information management
  • Cloud Computing in emergency management
  • Command and control studies
  • Crowdsourcing, digital volunteers and citizen journalism
  • Data analytics and information visualization for disasters
  • Digital transformation in emergency management
  • Disaster information processing
  • Disaster prevention, mitigation and preparedness
  • Disaster relief and resilience
  • Disaster vulnerability and risk management and assessment mapping
  • Disaster monitoring
  • Disaster information management systems
  • Disaster risk reduction
  • Disaster communications
  • Emerging technology support for disaster risk reduction (Robotics, UAV)
  • Hazard and vulnerability analysis
  • ICT challenges in emergency management
  • Integrated risk governance
  • Mobile computing and emergency management
  • Pandemic management
  • Security and privacy issues in disaster management
  • Simulation and gaming for disaster management
  • Situation awareness and common operational picture
  • Social media and disasters
  • Socio-economic impacts of disasters
  • Universal design thinking for disaster risk reduction

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission: July 31, 2022
  • Notification of Acceptance: August 31, 2022
  • Registration: October 13, 2022
  • Conference Date: October 25-27, 2022
  • Camera Ready Paper: December 17, 2022