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Using the TOP Data Archive to study human resilience: How community-based organizations used social networks and information technology for hurricane recovery

Williams, Kate

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Description

Title
Using the TOP Data Archive to study human resilience: How community-based organizations used social networks and information technology for hurricane recovery
Author(s)
Williams, Kate
Contributor(s)
  • Carter, Rebecca
  • Defore, Heather
  • Hill, Jennifer Marie
  • Hughes, Tracey
  • Takazawa, Aiko
Issue Date
2007-11
Keyword(s)
  • U.S. Technology Opportunities Program
  • Social Networks
  • Hurricane Katrina
Abstract
The TOP Data Archive contains information from and about 606 projects which won grants from the Technology Opportunities Program of the US Department of Commerce. The information was originally collected to facilitate the work of the agency. Each TOP project was a partnership of local organizations aiming to use information technology to address local issues. Awards were made from 1994 to 2005. A dataset, however, is often a doorway to new data collection, and this study of how local organizations responded to the 2005 hurricanes is an example. Examining a subset of TOP projects that were in the path of disaster, the study advances a theory of community resilience.
Series/Report Name or Number
TOP Bulletin 2
Type of Resource
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  • text
Language
en
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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
We gratefully acknowledge support from and partnership with the Benton Foundation.

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