Last year, the first Mobile Response symposium on Mobile Information Technology for Emergency Response was held - they’ve published the proceedings in a proper book and everything (somebody remind me why aren’t we doing that at ISCRAM?). Mobile Response is much more along the “emergency management” axis than the “humanitarian response” axis (you know, critical infrastructure, rescue operations and so on), but obviously there’s a lot of crossover (although at some point I’m going to have to write about the distinction and what it means for ICT issues in particular).

So the Call for Papers for Mobile Response 2008 has just been issued. To give you an idea of the topics that they’re interested in, take a look at this list:

• Mobile and wearable computing
• Context-aware applications
• Geographic information systems and location-based services
• Rescue operation management and decision support systems
• Multimedia and multimodal communication systems
• Requirements, design and empirical foundations
• System support for cross-organizational cooperation
• Critical infrastructure protection
• Strategies for involving the general public
• Information systems for environmental monitoring

And then get writing, I guess.