12th October 2011: 14:00 - 14:45Dr. Connie WhiteInformation Technology Solutions for Emergency Management Session Chair Michael Kay

Social Media for Emergency Management

#EMEC2011

Shift Happens

Internet Computers Music Photography/Video Telephone

Internet is faster, cheaper and more accessible.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

Computers are faster, cheaper, smaller and do more than ever before!

Netbook < $300.00 USD

SmartPhone < $200.00 USD

How has music changed over the years?

How do you take pictures?How are they developed?

How many baby pics of you?

How many are there of your kids... grandchildren?

When you were a child,

what did your photo album look like?

How have phones changed over the years?

Time Line

GmailCallPhone

What are the trends?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/12/tech/main6476743.shtml

When was the last time you used a phone booth?

Trends -It's simply what's happening.

Read a good Kindle lately?

When was the last time you wrote a letter and mailed it to someone?

What kind of card do you send?

What makes Social Media so powerful?

How powerful can Social Media be?

Ability to Communicate & Share

connecting

Human Intelligence

Craig Fugate - FEMA
Full http://www.c-span.org/Events/Senate-Homeland-Security-Hearing-on-Social-Media-as-Disaster-Communications-Tool/10737421355-1/

What can Social Media do for EM? (more here)

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/emergency/hurricane-irene-metrics.pdf

Fairfax Emergency Information Blog
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/emergency/blog

https://www.facebook.com/fairfaxcounty/

http://www.twitter.com/fairfaxcounty

How to better

Connect crisis social data with decision makers who can act on it?

Suzy DeFrances, Red Cross

Can one person make a difference?

The 'Digital' Volunteer

Sahana Disaster Management SystemintegratingTwitter - Basic Hashtag harvesting is actually already present

Adding support for sending out/receiving alerts via Twitter & mining a hashtag for potential value:

store tweets from 1 or more hastags e.g. #eqnz #canterburyquake to build up a local repo of all relevant tweets

be able to reply/retweet to these messages e.g. provide an official response

More http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/BluePrintMessagingModule#Twitter

http://www.iscram.org

Social Media & Disaster Research

Social Media Track

http://betanews.com/2011/06/16/92-of-social-network-users-are-on-facebook-just-13-on-twitter/

http://www.slideshare.net/web2asia/web2asia-online-social-networks-in-china-presentation

What makes Social Media so Powerful?