Alicia Johnson

Our society currently faces the most profound and deeply disruptive public health crisis in modern history. As communities across the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific advances spanning biochemistry and epidemiology to manufacturing and data engineering offer hope—and a spectrum of guidance is unfolding in an effort to respond to monumental shifts in our daily lives. The rising demand for data and the emerging efforts to responsibly collect, share, and analyze information… Show more

Our society currently faces the most profound and deeply disruptive public health crisis in modern history. As communities across the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific advances spanning biochemistry and epidemiology to manufacturing and data engineering offer hope—and a spectrum of guidance is unfolding in an effort to respond to monumental shifts in our daily lives. The rising demand for data and the emerging efforts to responsibly collect, share, and analyze information across traditional boundaries play a vital role in our next steps.

From facilitating dialogue and decision making, to underscoring the importance of a shared, honest assessment of where we are in our collective fight against the pandemic, data are now more important than ever. Our computational capacity and the value that we as a community can generate through data science are fundamentally crucial to our resilience. As we look to transition from crisis response to longer-term recovery, we have an unprecedented opportunity to re-imagine a new data-enabled future. Show less

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing, already with billions of devices across the planet, connected to humans, our infrastructure, and each other. Many enterprises, governments and citizens are in the process of deploying IoT in their businesses, cities and homes to improve efficiencies, increase control of their environment, and enhance the citizen and user experience.

Women Securing the Future with TIPPSS for IoT investigates the wide deployment of IoT technologies through the lens… Show more

The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing, already with billions of devices across the planet, connected to humans, our infrastructure, and each other. Many enterprises, governments and citizens are in the process of deploying IoT in their businesses, cities and homes to improve efficiencies, increase control of their environment, and enhance the citizen and user experience.

Women Securing the Future with TIPPSS for IoT investigates the wide deployment of IoT technologies through the lens of Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety and Security. Show less

When a major earthquake strikes the Bay Area, it could take months to reestablish essential services and years to rebuild. This report deals with one crucial set of long-term disaster recovery activities: those that focus on land use planning and rebuilding. Local jurisdictions that lay the groundwork for rebuilding — by continuously updating their general plans and zoning codes before a major disaster — will be in a much better place to begin a conversation with residents about a recovery… Show more

When a major earthquake strikes the Bay Area, it could take months to reestablish essential services and years to rebuild. This report deals with one crucial set of long-term disaster recovery activities: those that focus on land use planning and rebuilding. Local jurisdictions that lay the groundwork for rebuilding — by continuously updating their general plans and zoning codes before a major disaster — will be in a much better place to begin a conversation with residents about a recovery vision. Show less

Preparedness is a cultural value. So is resilience. Whether one lives in a metropolitan or rural community, we prepare because we want to build our lives there, even after a disaster. We anchor ourselves in a community in the hopes of coming back stronger and smarter than before. Often times, we think of survival on individual terms, but that certainly is not how one survives. We build our lives as members of a community and we survive as members of a community. That is the essence of… Show more

Preparedness is a cultural value. So is resilience. Whether one lives in a metropolitan or rural community, we prepare because we want to build our lives there, even after a disaster. We anchor ourselves in a community in the hopes of coming back stronger and smarter than before. Often times, we think of survival on individual terms, but that certainly is not how one survives. We build our lives as members of a community and we survive as members of a community. That is the essence of resilience. Show less

Contributed to Leadership in the Open: A New Paradigm in Emergency Management on the topic of Government 2.0 and its interconnection to Emergency Management, Response and Recovery.