Harnessing the Crowdsourcing Power of Social Media for Disaster Relief

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 benefits of crowdsourcing for disaster relief have three advantages over cowdoing for disaster relief compared to traditional relief programs. 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, after which I was able to rent a short code telephone number of Short Message Service (SMS) ( Mission 4636). Send free SMS.9 news