this book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the second international workshop on mobile information technology for emergency response, mobileresponse 2008 held in bonn, germany, in may 2008. the 12 revised papers presented together with 2 kenote lectures and 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. the papers are organized in topical sections on emergency alerting systems and indoor navigation, spatial and visual information for site exploration, collaboration and information management, as well as communication and security concepts.