IC4W – A Canadian Solution to a Canadian Problem
At a minimum, ‘wildfire’, as a sample incident type, is associated with wildfire fighting, emergency management, environmental protection, public safety, health, and social services activities, which are delivered by numerous government, industry, non-profit volunteer organizations, and increasingly the military. The bigger, hotter, and faster-moving fires we are experiencing these days require a lot of inter-organizational […]
Solving the ‘Wicked’ Problem
The frequency and severity of emergencies we are now experiencing require multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional responses involving not just emergency management and public safety agencies, but military, non-profit, and volunteer search and rescue organizations as well. In the 1970s, to enable multiple organizations to cooperate operationally on major emergencies, the civilian Incident Command System (ICS) concept of […]