You've got to check out this fascinating video of Craig Fugate, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), explaining why his agency plans to engage the public more in disaster response via mobile phones and social media. "A government-centric abroad to solving disaster problems will fail in a catastrophic disaster," he says. "It is a brittle system that does not have the resiliency that we have when we can incorporate the rest of the team: … [Read more...]
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Using Social Media for Emergency Response
February 5, 2011 by Monica
Filed Under: Relief & Development Tagged With: #crisisdata, #SMEM, craig fugate, crowdsourcing, FEMA, mobile, social media, twitter