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- Using social media in emergency and disaster management
- eGov AU - Craig Thomler's professional blog - eGovernment and Gov 2.0 thoughts and speculations from an Australian perspective, Wednesday, March 13, 2013. "Firstly, in my view, not using social media for emergency management invites disaster. Whether emergency service personnel and management 'like' or 'dislike' Facebook, Twitter or other social media and online channels is now irrelevant. Citizens, media organisations and other groups increasingly rely on them to share information, tactics and to organise outside of any central control by an agency and regardless of their wishes..."
Added: 14 March 2013;
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- Saving lives from behind the screen
- by Asher Moses. Sydney Morning Herald, November 6, 2012. "Anthony Baxter is a geek whose tech prowess has almost certainly saved lives. Part of Google's Crisis Response Team, the Sydney-based engineer has been integral in disseminating crucial information about events such as Hurricane Sandy, the Black Saturday bushfires and Cyclone Yasi..."
Added: 8 November 2012;
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- Emergency 2.0 Wiki Project blog site
- "The aim of this site is to provide an information hub to keep you up to date as we journey to turning the vision into a reality. Vision - To empower the community with the knowledge to use web2.0 and social media in emergency communications. Purpose - The Emergency 2.0 Wiki will be a new collaborative model for sharing and advancing knowledge on utilising web2.0 and social media in emergency management.
Added: 25 August 2011;
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- Emergency 2.0 Wiki launched for global collaborative input
- by Eileen Culleton. Emergency 2.0 Wiki, August 23, 2011. "Tonight the Emergency 2.0 Wiki launched for global collaborative input via an online blitz! Launching from the Local Disaster Coordination Centre in Brisbane Australia, the Wiki Working Group are on our laptops, mobile phones and notebooks, tweeting, posting discussions and blogging! In early 2011 the world experienced unprecedented disasters – the Queensland floods, Cyclone Yasi, the Christchurch earthquake, the Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis and the US tornados. During this time we witnessed the power of social media used to send instant warnings to save lives, to share realtime information, and to enable the community to help one another..."
Added: 25 August 2011;
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- 30 Reasons to Use Social Media in an Emergency
- by Glen Gilmore. Business 2 Community, June 9, 2011. "1. It's real time; 2. It's self correcting; 3. It instantly connects you to millions of people around the globe; 4. It never sleeps; 5. It connects you to hundreds, if not thousands, of relief agencies; 6. It connects you to thousands of emergency response professionals; 7. It's almost always at the scene of an emergency when it happens – or it's there moments afterwards..."
Added: 16 June 2011;
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- Disasters may push public sector to cloud: analyst
- Tackling natural disasters here and in Australia may spur cloud migration, By Stephen Bell. Computerworld, Thursday, 31 March, 2011. "Natural disasters in New Zealand and Australia are likely to channel public sector ICT spending in a different direction to the rest of Asia-Pacific, says Ovum analyst Kevin Noonan. Noonan, Ovum Australia's public-sector research director, told a breakfast event in Wellington last week that the Christchurch earthquake and Queensland floods were straining governments' budgets and driving ICT development from an 'effectiveness' emphasis of meeting public need to an 'efficiency' slant..."
Added: 31 March 2011;
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- SOUTHCOM Haiti HA/DR 3D UDOP
- Provided by the United States Southern Command. "This application enables users to review content available to the Haiti Earthquake Relief community through a Google Earth 3D interface, download and access content and submit content for sharing with others. Data includes logistics updates on key sites along with current photographs, locational data for relief organizations, status of hospitals and medical support, current aerial imagery, street view images of post quake Haiti roads and terrain data as well as over 100+ other key information layers..."
Added: 8 April 2010;
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- Collaborative mapping for major disasters
- Posted by Jeff Martin, Google Crisis Response Team. Google Lat Long Blog, Tuesday, April 6, 2010. "In the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, an urgent need for geospatial data sharing arose. As aid organizations and governments rushed to help, the collection and sharing of large amounts of geographic information among many sources and users presented a daunting challenge..."
Added: 8 April 2010;
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- Geospatial apps help temper Mother Nature's fury
- Agencies find that fusing webs of remote sensors with geospatial management systems is the next best thing to being there, By John Moore. Federal Computer Week, March 5, 2010. "... With little fanfare, geospatial information derived from sensors is already helping decision-makers better understand the context of problems that they face on a daily basis. Nearly anything in the physical world that needs to be managed has a location in space and time and can be measured. And it needs to be measured if it is to be managed well..."
Added: 10 March 2010;
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- Emergency Managers Should Learn From Web 2.0 Responses to Wildfires and School Shootings
- By Jeannette Sutton. Government Technology, September 3, 2009. "This article was adapted from a presentation by Jeannette Sutton at the 2009 World Conference of Disaster Management. We know a lot about how people react in disasters, and emergency managers can draw on that knowledge and background. For example, we know how people communicate in disasters, and we know how to build effective warning systems so failures are designed out. We know how to develop messages that most directly impact people so they will take protective action. And we know how to craft preparedness campaigns to help people prepare for disasters. But can we take what we know and apply it to the use of social media in disasters?..."
Added: 7 September 2009;
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- Is It Lawful to Use Twitter for Emergency Messages?
- Posted by Carolyn Elefant. Law.com Legal Blog Watch, August 11, 2009. "We already know what the law has to say about shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. But can you shout "fire" on a crowded Twitter? TechRadium, a Texas-based emergency alert provider, says no. As The National Law Journal reports, TechRadium is suing Twitter for alleged patent infringement for allowing municipalities, companies and government agencies to use its site as an emergency notification system..."
Added: 13 August 2009;
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- Twitter: Five Lessons for Emergency Managers from Iran (Opinion)
- By Eric E. Holdeman. Government Technology, June 23, 2009. "Iran has been called the first electronic revolution; in fact it is the first social media revolution in the making. Social media has moved from being simple entertainment for kids on MySpace or Facebook to a new way of communicating and relating to the people next door and around the world..."
Added: 25 June 2009;
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- Microsoft Launches Social Media Tool
- By Jim McKay, Editor. Government Technology April 28, 2009. "Microsoft today launched a new social media product called Microsoft Vine aimed at being a local means of communication even during emergencies. It is aimed at the consumer and connecting people in the traditional social media way but with added functions, such as mapping and the ability to define a specific area of interest, neighborhood or community..."
Added: 29 April 2009;
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- Aladdin - autonomous learning agents for decentralised data and information networks
- "Aladdin is a multi-million pound multi-disciplinary research project funded by a BAE Systems and EPSRC strategic partnership. It involves a number of leading research groups from Imperial College London, University of Southampton, University of Bristol, and Oxford University. The project is concerned with developing mechanisms, architectures, and techniques to deal with the dynamic and uncertain nature of distributed and decentralised intelligent systems. Disaster management is the chosen application domain as the world faces an urgent need for better means to deal with such situations where a number of actors have to coordinate their activities when facing significant degrees of uncertainty and where the context is very dynamic..."
Added: 5 March 2009;
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This category last updated: 14 March 2013
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