Dynamic Narratives and Comprehensive Situational Awareness: Minimal Protocols for Managing Complex Data

Abstract

In order to address the needs of those caught in a pandemic, one needs situational awareness for tracking the development of the pandemic and the resources needed to help those affected by it. That can enable governments to connect those who need help with healthcare providers who can help them and as well connect healthcare providers with the resources they need for helping the sick. Using a war room as a central node for centralizing responsibility otherwise normally delegated to numerous stakeholders can provide minimal multimodal protocols for effectively capturing data for developing situational awareness of the pandemic. Having situational awareness in real time can enable a war room to use its authority for exercising responsibility for connecting the dots and taking action for addressing the needs of a pandemic.