Harnessing the Crowdsourcing Power of Social Media for Disaster Relief.pdf

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.

This article will be useful for researchers and practitioners of PVE who are interested in using crowdsourced information via social media and cloud funding. In this article, we show two early examples of how such a process might occur.

<p> Social media sites have proven useful for disaster relief for information provision and communication. Crowdsourcing applications based on social media applications such as Twitter and Ushahidi provide powerful capabilities to gather information from disaster scenarios and visualize data for relief decisions. This white paper briefly introduces the pros and cons of crowdsourcing for disaster relief coordination. It also describes some of the challenges you need to address to make crowdsourcing a coordinating, accuracy, and tool that will help effectively promote security advances. </ p>

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.