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and practical exercises in the area of crisis management. It offers training for the
work of crisis management staffs.
An important aspect of working in a crisis management team is managing and
presenting information on the current situation. It turned out in the practical
exercises that the understanding of the practical work flow of the information
recording and processing to the representation in a map was theoretically avail-
able, but the practical implementation was dicult. One of the reasons of the
diculty is that trainees have different knowledge about the procedure of the
map management. As a consequence of these problems, the learning outcome
that can be gained from the practical exercises is reduced. A preliminary web
based practice simulation of the work flow within a realistically situation would
help to solve the problem and increase the quality of the training.
Of course there exist different map and crisis management systems. For ex-
ample, sceptros [1] developped by the “Beerware-Lizenz” allows users to manage
the list of forces in use and the map very fexible. It is fully usable for map man-
agement. The second example is the eden project [2] from the sahana software
foundation. It is an flexible online platform for humanitarian projects. With
its wide flexible structure it can be adapted very fast to the local conditions.
Fraunhofer IOSB institute is also developing systems for crisis management for
example a smart control room [3] which also could be used to manage situa-
tion maps and forces via real time information collection and presentation, in
response centre. These systems are designed for managing crisis situations and
especially for map management, but not developed for teaching how to do this
management.
This paper describes the possibility of building such Web-based training en-
vironment for learning the situation map powered by the Webble technology [4].
The Webble technology is one of the latest Meme Media [5] platform. It allows
users to combine some visual objects in the Web browser window and exchange
the compound objects with other users. We believe that this feature supports
teachers and learners in the process of the situation map representation train-
ing well. We discuss possible scenario of Webble-based station map training and
necessary functionalities to achieve the provided scenarios.
2 Emergency Situation Management Training in AKNZ
2.1 Practical Exercise in the AKNZ and Benefits
The aim of the practical exercises is to apply the knowledge about administra-
tive and logistical structures in crisis management out of the lessons in realistic
scenarios.
The diversity of the participants is on the one side good for the exchange of
information about differences in other cultures and competencies. This promotes
new ideas and proposals of the civil protection on both sides. But unfortunately
from these circumstances results the issue that there are big differences in the
state of knowledge about the civil protection and related organisation focused
on Germany. However, in order to maximize the learning outcomes from the
