Crowdsourcing for Disaster Risk Management 2014
How can crowdsourcing provide more efficient disaster risk management?
Extreme climatic events are expected to increase in the future due to climate change. The challenge then becomes strengthening communities’ resilience to disasters, to prevent hazards from disrupting their normal functioning. Citizen participation through crowdsourcing of information is a promising avenue for the development of new disaster risk management strategies, and this contest seeks proposals that reveal the full potential of crowdsourcing for disaster preparedness, response and recovery. Click here for contest details
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Proposals
We Are Ready is a platform to crowd source disaster info, send disaster alerts, plan evacuation, track people & identify medical needs
Manage during and post-disaster needs by calling, sending SMS, voice or donating money to #CrowdCriMa- an Open Source platform
A free generic and ubiquitous technological platform to facilitate adaptation and disaster risk management in the socially complex Africa
Save the Baby: Global Data Commons created by digitized maternal and infant health record for disaster risk management
New generation, cloud-based IT services can improve the situational awareness in disasters via the involvement of citizens as human sensors