Albert Simard, PhD

Knowledge Manager - Developing a knowledge strategy for DRDC

Defence Research and Development Canada

CURRENT S&T / RESEARCH

Knowledge and Emergency Management

• Developing Knowledge Management projects, programs and strategies
• Managing knowledge in a network environment
• Emergency management

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES / INTERESTS

Led the development of two national information systems to monitor and predict forest-fire activity, including the National Wildland Fire Information System

Developed strategic plans and frameworks for two global information networks related to disaster management and forestry

Used a knowledge management approach to establish a modelling framework for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency

KEY PUBLICATIONS

• Global Disaster Information Marketplace: A Proposal Presented to United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction 2005
• Canadian Forest Service Access to Knowledge: Policy and Guidelines Presentation to CFS Senior Management Committee 2004
• Toward a CFS Knowledge Initiative (May 1998)
• Transferring the “Right” Disaster Information – The Native American Project Presented at the International Disaster Reduction Conference 2006
• Knowledge Management in the Canadian Forest Service Presented to BC Forest Service 2005
• Knowledge Markets: More than Providers and Users Presented to IPSI Montreal 2006
• Knowledge Management: A Value-Chain Approach Presented to Interdepartmental Knowledge Management Forum 2004
• Science and Technology in a Wired World Canadian Forest Service S&T Forum 2001
• Understanding Knowledge Services – Transforming Government: Better Outcomes for Citizens Knowledge Services Task Group 2005
• Understanding knowledge services at Natural Resources Canada. 2007. Simard, A.J.; Broome, J.; Drury, M.; Haddon, B.D.; O’Neil, R.; Pasho, D. Natural Resources Canada, Headquarters, Office of the Chief Scientist, Ottawa. 80 p.
• Managing Knowledge at the Canadian Forest Service. 2000. Simard, A.J. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Headquarters, Science Branch, Ottawa. 88 p.
• Global Disaster Information Network: a conceptual framework. 1999. Simard, A.J. Contingency, emergency, crisis, and disaster management: defining the agenda for the third millennium : 109-120. Proceedings: 6th Annual Conference Int. Emergency Management Soc. June 7-11, 1999, Delft, The Netherlands