The Power of the Crowd: A New Frontier in Disaster Response

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The Power of the Crowd: A New Frontier in Disaster Response

Ginny Mies, TechSoup

8 Oct 2013 2:15 PM

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jcravens42

28 Oct 2013 10:40 AM

Terrific addition to topics (crowds in disaster response, IT in disaster response, etc.) that have come up many times on the TechSoup Community Forum:

Introducing MicroMappers for Digital Disaster Response

forums.techsoup.org/.../126685.aspx

United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) uses crowd-sourcing to explore solutions

forums.techsoup.org/.../128559.aspx

Crowd-Sourcing the Nation: Using Volunteers for Enhanced Data Collection for USGS

forums.techsoup.org/.../129101.aspx

Humanity Road - nonprofit using tech re: disaster relief

forums.techsoup.org/.../128155.aspx

Can emergency management and disaster response organizations convince Twitter users to use their organizations' apps instead?

forums.techsoup.org/.../128369.aspx

Trilogy Emergency Relief App - another mobile tool from IFRC

forums.techsoup.org/.../126284.aspx

online registry for donated items after a disaster - how to make it happen?

forums.techsoup.org/.../128011.aspx

What tools exist that facilitate communication between organizations during a disaster, what more are needed?

forums.techsoup.org/.../106642.aspx

1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management

24 to 25 March 2014

forums.techsoup.org/.../128167.aspx

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