Case 6:
Description
Yesterday (Sunday the 7th of October 2001), a national disaster happened in Utopia. The East part of the country (Purgatory Town) was hit by an earthquake (7.8 on the scale of Richter). The whole area is in ruins. Thousands of people died and many more are injured. The local fire stations and hospitals are damaged and not operational. Since an implemented SDI is missing and local archives are ruined, access to data sources for (vital) geo-information about the area has become impossible.
Today (8:00 AM), the Minister of State for the Interior received the "master plan" which your SDI-project team had submitted last Friday. During this week he will have several meetings with your team about the proposals included that document, because next Friday he has to present and defend the national SDI master plan in the parliament. After having gone through your report a first time, he asks your team whether the suggested SDI (if implemented) would have suited the current needs of the emergency services. In addition, he notices that in his opinion several potential SDI-users and their SDI-requirements are missing. He wants to receive a reply to his question and a revised list of potential users on the shortest possible term.
Assignment
Extend the current list of the potential SDI-users. Define for each of these the user requirements. Trace, whether the proposed Utopia SDI, if available now, would have survived the earthquake, and if so, whether it could have matched the SDI-user requirements of the emergency services under the circumstances the earthquake has caused.
Working procedure
The same as for case 1
Thursday, 12 February 2009; Room P69.