Comments on: Twitter and the Power of Micro-Blogging in Emergencies http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/ A blog about Knowledge Management, Communities, Collaboration, Learning, Social Computing and Work/Life Balance Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:18:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Fito http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-1134357 Fito Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:56:04 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/#comment-1134357 For a bit now, I have been following the benefits of ICT in crisis management. When the communication and collaboration of stakeholders involved (public emergency bodies, military, NGOs, citizens, etc.) is critical to minimize the negative effects of a humanitarian or environmental emergency, ICT can play an immense role. Not only it empowers their collaboration efforts but helps mitigate the biggest barrier, a culture of non-sharing. In Finland, Ahtisaari's Crisis Management Initiative has provided a lot of evidence on this issue. Unfortunately, tragedies happen all over the world, but only when it has started to hit hard our "developed" countries (floods in Britain, huracan Katrina, foreigners in Asia during the tsunami), we have started to empower the change. It seems evident then that if every one of us have the tools at hand, the effects of catastrophes (int this case provoked fires) like we see every summer in Greece, Portugal, Spain (including my home Canary Islands), could definitely be minimized if we saw public authorities supporting education and stimulating their use. Although for a different purpose, but still resembling awesome value, I am impressed with initiatives like Ushahidi (testimony in Swahili) that have build a platform that crowdsources crisis information. Going back to Twitters role, I am sure you all have seen the spectacular presentation by Clay Shirky on TED. It is self-explanatory and I recommend you to check it out. If anyone else has other interesting iniciatives like Ushahidi, please share :-) For a bit now, I have been following the benefits of ICT in crisis management. When the communication and collaboration of stakeholders involved (public emergency bodies, military, NGOs, citizens, etc.) is critical to minimize the negative effects of a humanitarian or environmental emergency, ICT can play an immense role. Not only it empowers their collaboration efforts but helps mitigate the biggest barrier, a culture of non-sharing. In Finland, Ahtisaari’s Crisis Management Initiative has provided a lot of evidence on this issue.

Unfortunately, tragedies happen all over the world, but only when it has started to hit hard our “developed” countries (floods in Britain, huracan Katrina, foreigners in Asia during the tsunami), we have started to empower the change.

It seems evident then that if every one of us have the tools at hand, the effects of catastrophes (int this case provoked fires) like we see every summer in Greece, Portugal, Spain (including my home Canary Islands), could definitely be minimized if we saw public authorities supporting education and stimulating their use. Although for a different purpose, but still resembling awesome value, I am impressed with initiatives like Ushahidi (testimony in Swahili) that have build a platform that crowdsources crisis information.

Going back to Twitters role, I am sure you all have seen the spectacular presentation by Clay Shirky on TED. It is self-explanatory and I recommend you to check it out.

If anyone else has other interesting iniciatives like Ushahidi, please share :-)

]]> By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez » Using Twitter in the Enterprise by Ed Yourdon http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-974524 E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez » Using Twitter in the Enterprise by Ed Yourdon Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:28:26 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/#comment-974524 [...] Twitter goes mainstream - Fast Forward Blog you the Ist Twitter Guide to the Social Revolution: Excellent guide put together by my good friend Rob Paterson over at The FASTForward Blog that explains the kind of impact Twitter is having in both our virtual and in real life interactions, specially when facing critical situations. [...] [...] Twitter goes mainstream – Fast Forward Blog you the Ist Twitter Guide to the Social Revolution: Excellent guide put together by my good friend Rob Paterson over at The FASTForward Blog that explains the kind of impact Twitter is having in both our virtual and in real life interactions, specially when facing critical situations. [...]

]]> By: Patronus Analytical http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-249080 Patronus Analytical Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:37:07 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/#comment-249080 <strong>Twitter in Emergencies...</strong> This morning I came across Luis Suarez’s very informative post about micro-blogging in emergencies at elsua.net. His post led me to a great YouTube video by W David Stephenson.... Twitter in Emergencies…

This morning I came across Luis Suarez’s very informative post about micro-blogging in emergencies at elsua.net. His post led me to a great YouTube video by W David Stephenson….

]]> By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Micro-Blogging and The Obvious? http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-247406 E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Micro-Blogging and The Obvious? Tue, 09 Oct 2007 23:35:33 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/#comment-247406 [...] Links « Twitter and the Power of Micro-Blogging in Emergencies [...] [...] Links « Twitter and the Power of Micro-Blogging in Emergencies [...]

]]> By: Matt Moore http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-247121 Matt Moore Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:43:37 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/#comment-247121 Luis - Ambient presencing tools like Twitter have a big role to play for organisations where staff are distributed all over the place and they need to get a sense of what everyone else is doing. We just need to get the interfaces it a bit better IMHO... Luis – Ambient presencing tools like Twitter have a big role to play for organisations where staff are distributed all over the place and they need to get a sense of what everyone else is doing. We just need to get the interfaces it a bit better IMHO…

]]> By: Beth Kanter http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/comment-page-1/#comment-246924 Beth Kanter Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:43:03 +0000 http://www.elsua.net/2007/10/08/twitter-and-the-power-of-micro-blogging-in-emergencies/#comment-246924 This is fascinating. Thanks for blogging it. This is fascinating. Thanks for blogging it.

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