Social media as crisis platform: The future of community maps/crisis maps
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
Lessons learned in using social media for disaster relief - ASU crisis response game
SBP'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction
Maximizing benefits from crowdsourced data
Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory
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The efficiency at which governments and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are able to respond to a crisis and provide relief to victims has gained increased attention. This emphasis coincides with significant events such as tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, and environmental disasters occuring during the last decade. Crowdsourcing applications such as Twitter, Ushahidi, and Sahana have proven useful for gathering information about a crisis yet have limited utility for response coordination. In this paper, we briefly describe the shortfalls of current crowdsourcing applications applied to disaster relief coordination and discuss one approach aimed at facilitating efficient collaborations amongst disparate organizations responding to a crisis.