The Power of Collective Knowledge in Disaster Management: How Crowdsourcing Can Save Lives

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angličtina
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The Power of Collective Knowledge in Disaster Management: How Crowdsourcing Can Save Lives
Original language description
Natural disasters happen all over the word. No matter if it is about floods, earthquakes, hurricanes or fires, all these emergencies threaten people's lives and must be dealt with speedy fashion. Disaster managers are heavily trained to deal with adversesituation, but they need relevant information to be able to make the best decisions possible and act quickly to resolve the situation. This information can be generated by individuals in or around the site. Thanks to the Internet and massive expansion of social networks, lot of information is already spontaneously generated by these individuals. In this paper an analysis of how crowdsourcing opens new possibilities for interaction and knowledge sharing by large group of people which can be put to use in disaster relief is presented. Starting with a general overview of the topic, we define key terms are defined: disaster management, volunteered geographic information and crowdsourcing. Then, a way of how the collective intelligence tech
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Publication year
2015
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S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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