Harnessing the Crowdsourcing Power of Social Media for Disaster Relief

This white paper briefly introduces the pros and cons of crowdsourcing for disaster relief coordination. It also describes some of the challenges that must be dealt with in order to make crowdsourcing a useful tool to effectively coordinate coordination, accuracy, and security advances.

This 2011 article focuses on cloud funding through social media in disaster relief events. Social media plays an increasingly important role in natural disasters as an information sender available for disaster relief. In this article I will explain how to use Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Skype, Blog, and YouTube by devastating Haiti earthquake of 12th January 2010 and Japanese tsunami of 2011. Personal experience in the earthquake Within 48 hours of the earthquake at Haiti, the Red Cross received a $ 8 million donation directly from the text, reflecting the benefits of social media 's powerful communication skills.

The advantage of crowdsourcing for disaster relief has three advantages over cowdo sourcing for disaster relief compared to traditional relief program. First of all, we will use social media to gather cloud source data such as user requests and status reports almost immediately after a disaster. Ushahidi-Haiti was formed by a volunteer at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts two hours after the earthquake on January 12, and it was then possible to borrow a short code of short message service (SMS) short code (Mission 4636). Send free SMS.9 news