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Harnessing the Crowdsourcing Power of Social Media for Disaster Relief

IEEE Intelligent SystemsPublished 1 May 2011
Huiji Gao, Geoffrey Barbier, Rebecca Goolsby
Citations773
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score1.33
SNIP2.01

TL;DR

The advantages and disadvantages of crowdsourcing applications applied to disaster relief coordination are described and several challenges must be addressed to make crowdsourcing a useful tool that can effectively facilitate the relief progress in coordination, accuracy, and security.

Abstract

This article briefly describes the advantages and disadvantages of crowdsourcing applications applied to disaster relief coordination. It also discusses several challenges that must be addressed to make crowdsourcing a useful tool that can effectively facilitate the relief progress in coordination, accuracy, and security.

Keywords

Social SciencesMedicine