Surviving “Droughts” and “Floods”: Stretching the Metaphor for Humanitarian Information Management

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Publication details

Publisher(s)	Public Entity Risk Institute (2003)
Author(s)	Paul Currion

Description

We are now starting to experience the problems thrown up by the IT revolution.
These problems cannot be separated from the benefits noted above – indeed, the drawbacks are in fact the benefits, seen from another angle. E-mail is probably the most obvious example; by facilitating communications more quickly and easily than ever before, it has lead to a proliferation of messages surging through organizations.