Blockchain Technology for Emergency Response

As unforeseen situations, emergencies threaten the environment, property, and people’s lives. Large emergencies are characterized by the demand for coordination of a variety of actors, such as civil defense or disaster relief. Communication and information exchange are crucial for coordination. Therefore, a solid, stable communication infrastructure is among the crucial factors for emergency response. New technologies that seem to ensure trustworthy communication must be evaluated constantly. Blockchain technology is widely applied in a broad variety of contexts and is commonly known for its decentralized and distributed governance. This is the motivation for the design and evaluation of a framework for the adoption of blockchain technology in the case of emergency response following a design science approach. Evaluation of the artifact using a specific evaluation framework clearly indicates the suitability of the case for application of blockchain technology.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

• Publication date

  2020-01-07

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.24251/hicss.2020.075
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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