Self-organizing technology for disaster response and recovery

A system for use in responding to emergencies, comprising:

• a plurality of packages of information, each package of information including information defining a different role in a hierarchical organization, each role relating to tasks to be performed by an individual in responding to an emergency, at least some of the tasks including a task of recruitment of others to perform subsidiary roles in the hierarchical organization by way of distributing packages of information to others so as to form the hierarchical organization, the plurality of packages of information including an incident commander package of information, the incident commander package including a plurality of tokens allowing for access to the information of the packages of information;
• a server configured to transmit the plurality of packages of information to at least one electronic communication device.

The system of 19, wherein the tokens include program instructions for configuring the electronic communications devices to transmit information of a role defined by information of a one of the packages received by the electronic communication devices, and information relating to users of the electronic communication devices;

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• wherein the server is further configured to receive the information transmitted by the electronic communication devices and to generate information of an organizational chart of the hierarchical organization, includes roles filled in the hierarchical organization and information relating to the users, and
• wherein the server is further configured to transmit the information of the organizational chart to the electronic communication devices.