Developing a participatory feedback and implementation process

Various initiatives have been developed for encouraging the end-users organisations to participate and contribute to refine and assimilate the research findings by:

• Compiling an end-user oriented non-academic style report in order to review and summarise the critical issues involved in implementing electronic data and information sharing frameworks
• Distributing copies of the report to the end-users
• Presented the DGIS vision via a simplified ‘cartoon’ representation that graphically show how DGIS would be employed in different emergency response scenarios

4 of 10 steps for DGIS response framework during an emergency event:

1. Preliminary information used in generating data/information related to the potential emergency via RAMM	2. The Consultant alerts other possibly involved parties
3. The contractor records observed damages via a Personal Digital Assistance DGIS-PDA	4. The PDA reports the collected information back via the DGIS database

The applicability and feasibility of the research outcomes are constantly verified according to the end-users reality and needs