Wednesday, September 08, 2010

 

Crowdsourcing disaster relief


Fantastic post over at Danger Room looking at the collaboration tools being used to respond to the floods in Pakistan.

Note - the U.S. platform doesn’t have a community of users, hence it is irrelevant. The tech needs to be there, but without an active community a platform is like a stage without actors.
First Haiti, now this. Crowdsourcing tools for disaster response - like CrisisCommons (cited by DR) - has arrived and the question in the future will be: who is providing the platform? They are the sysadmin - both literally and figuratively.

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