Visions for Future Crisis Management

This track invites work-in-progress (WiP) papers that introduce bold, unconventional, and over-the-horizon ideas for the future of crisis management. It offers a forum for forward-looking work that challenges the community to rethink how information systems can help communities learn from past crises and prepare for unprecedented future events. Submissions should extend beyond or open new perspectives beyond completed research presented in existing ISCRAM tracks.

Research on future crisis management must address two connected challenges: learning from past emergencies by evaluating how responders and citizens use information systems, and helping communities prepare for unprecedented crises that test their capacity, adaptability, and resilience. This includes developing novel technologies, improving training, simulation and exercises, and informing policies and procedures.

Anchored in the ISCRAM 2027 theme, “Supporting First Nations and Remote Communities,” the track invites researchers to envision how information systems can address emergency communication, coordination, service delivery, and other evolving challenges across diverse community contexts. It encourages innovation in the theories and applied methods that guide crisis information systems research.

Track Topics

The track is not defined by a specific topic area. It welcomes provocative work that extends beyond topics in existing ISCRAM tracks, including papers that:

• Identify over-the-horizon problems.
• Propose unconventional theories.
• Outline emerging application domains.
• Introduce unique methodologies.

Submission Requirements

• Explicit vision: Each WiP paper must include a “Vision” discussion in its Discussion section.
• The vision should define a big-picture problem by describing the domain’s current state and the desired future state that motivates or is investigated in the study.

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