Approaches of Humanitarian Crisis Management - Associated Risks with the ICT-based Crowdsourcing Paradigm

Since the early fifties of Twentieth Century, numbers of guidelines, frameworks and methodologies have been developed by countries, UN and other agencies to provide humanitarian assistance and manage humanitarian crisis properly. There are numbers of national policies and plans on disaster risk reduction and national plans for disaster management have also been established. However, in this Age of ICTs, anyone engaged in humanitarian crisis management activities understands that effective crisis management is now more demanding than ever before. Thus, crisis coordinators and crisis management researchers have started developing and using new ICT tools and technologies to deal crisis efficiently and effectively. However, all these tools and techniques create some critical challenges in data protection, privacy and security of users and some risks related to Malware, fear and confusion, government surveillance and so on. On this background, this research paper aims to provide a brief analysis on evolution of humanitarian crisis management approach and several risks related to Crowdsourcing for Humanitarian Crisis Management