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Online mapping supporting emergency response

March 4, 2010 – 3:05 pm

In any emergency scenario, governments and agencies need good, up-to-date maps in order to respond effectively. While accurate maps exist for bigger cities, such as Conception in Chile, many remote rural areas tend to be poorly mapped out.
Yet thanks to thousands of online volunteers, more complete maps have been built to aid in both the [...]

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Social media provides lifeline in Haiti

January 16, 2010 – 1:56 pm

With conventional communication channels down, social media has played a central role in connecting people and getting information out of earthquake devastated Haiti. In countless instances, the first word from quake-hit areas was a text message, a Facebook post, a tweet, Flickr images or videos uploaded to Youtube. Preliminary research by Nielsen shows that [...]

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