Emergency Social Media Forum for Alerts, Dialogue & Awareness
The public has smart phones and should be a resource during an emergency, but we lack a national system/framework for how the public should engage with various layers of government and share their eye witness reports, photos, and ideas or suggestions for real-world solutions. Currently, local jurisdictions all use divergent tactics to push emergency information to the public. We need an interactive, national system of ...more »
The public has smart phones and should be a resource during an emergency, but we lack a national system/framework for how the public should engage with various layers of government and share their eye witness reports, photos, and ideas or suggestions for real-world solutions. Currently, local jurisdictions all use divergent tactics to push emergency information to the public. We need an interactive, national system of consistent local forums with a common naming convention (i.e.www.seattle.gov/emergency www.neworleans.gov/emergency) with the functionality to aggregate emergency social media trending topics, provide official government updates, public safety alerts and instructions, allow user-generated content, and connect the whole community to government agencies and each other during the face of a disaster.
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