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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Yahoo set up 100 Internet-linked computers at the Astrodome and developed a meta-search of evacuee registration websites. There were also many sites so a searcher would have to go through several and sort through the many different search protocols and syntax. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing.

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Things We Like (November 2008)

NTEN

Ushahidi gathers crisis reports from mobile sources, then maps the data. After you look at the sobering visualization of incidents in the Congo (DRC), you may need another dose of puppies. Walk Score rates your neighborhood's walkability and maps just about everything of interest near you, from bookstores to bars.

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