Separation of Lanthanides/ Lanthanides and Actinides
Web 2.0 Changes Emergency Communications
1. The World occurs
because it is communicated.
Umberto Galimberti
INFORMING THE PUBLIC
The Post-Gutemberg Challenge for Risks and Emergency Management
ELENA RAPISARDI
PROTEC Torino 30/06/2011
7. Gutenberg Bible Gutenberg Revolution
lowered the production costs
increased the books production
favourished the democratic
access to knowledge
stimulated litteracy
1455
contributed to the critical thinking
created institutionalized
inforation model
14. The wealth of networks:
how social production
transforms markets and
freedom.
Yochai Benkler.
The post-Gutemberg
revolution is «The end of
institutionalised mediation
models».
Richard Stacy
The Web 2.0 World
15. Web 2.0 Key Words
#share
#collaborate
#communicate
#cooperate
#support
#include - e.g. #diversity
17. #terremotoabruzzo
The first Italian emergency event in the web 2.0 era
Soon after the earthquake ....
130 facebook groups
thousands of messages, status, ...
twitter messages
what for?
to communicate fears, hopelessness,
to inform on the victims and the rescue interventions
to look for some friends, relatives, ...
to share information on the overall situation
to organise donations (money and goods)
18. «with advances in
technology, the gap between
professionals and amateurs
has narrowed, paving the
way for companies to take
advantage of the talent of the
public.»
Darren Gilbert
<p>The Crowd</p>
19. Approach | Web 2.0
OpenFreeCloud Social Collaboration
Distributed technologies Web 2.0 Social network: a The result is a flourishing
[web & mobile] built to social structure made up of nonmarket sector of
integrate, that collectively individualsorganizations information, knowledge, and
transform mass (nodes, which are connected cultural production, based
participation into valuable by one or more specific in the networked
outcomes. types of interdependency: environment, and applied to
friendship, common anything that the many
Ross Dawson.
interest, financial exchange... individuals connected to it
Future Exploration Network
or relationships of beliefs, can imagine.
knowledge or prestige. Yochai Benkler
Wikipedia The Wealth of Networks
People is the Key - We are the Key
20. Approach | Risk & Emergency
Subsidiarity Resilience Prevention
Principles that positively «The aim is to shift from a From Forecast/Monitoring to
value communities and largely local authority and Prevention.
what comes out in terms of emergency services agenda A set of actions to avoid or
local response to citizens to involvement of the public decrease disaster impact,
needs. and business community - implemented on the basis
The aim is to increase the so to increase the capacity of knowledge acquired
usercitizenslocal-bodies of citizens and businesses through forecast and
responsibility and proactive to take more responsibility for monitoring analysis.
attitude. their own risk management.»
UE
Abruzzo Emergency - Roio Piano Rescue Camp
PeopleUsersCitizensOperators in face of disasters
21. Civil Protection 2.0
Web 2.0/3.0
Resilience
Civil Protection Bodies
Volunteers
Scholars/Experts
Business
Citizens
Media
Collaboration
Sharing
27. «Changing the world one map at time»
Patrick Maier, Ushahidi
Three Capabilities
Fusion
Attribution
Automated Alerts
An Example by George Chamales
to be continued...
28. Will the VTCs play an increasingly
important role in the future disaster
management?
Will the increasing number of volunteers
and the power of Web 2.0 technologies will
change the disaster management?
Which are the SWOT of this new path?
29. SWOT: Web 2.0 and Risks
Strength Weakness
Local Social Ties
Opportunities
«Web Divide»
Global Social Networks
Common Approach
Low Budget
Volunteers Commitment
Free web 2.0 platforms
Web 2.0 Community
Institutionalized information model Low Web litteracy
Citizens driven information model Past Dependencies
Threads
Privacy and Security Issues Low Collaboration
Privacy and Security Issues Slow pace of change
Participation and Collaboration
Low Budget
Reliability of Sources Lack of Continuance
30. Richard Stacy | www.richardstacy.com
The assets of a post-Gutemberg world
100% controlled by stakeholders/customers
Community
Conversation
Content
100% controlled by you/institution/organization/....
31. Civil Protection 2.0 «Community»
Institutions Communications Volunteers
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na
red
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RISKS
ent
Pre
Relief
Media Citizens
32. The Institutions Challenge
RECOGNIZE the whole transformational challenge and participate to
the transition
BUILD a reputation for reliability, trust in the Web 2.0 Crisis
Community [content-community-conversation]
ACKNOWLEDGE AND DEVELOP assets and competencies reflecting
the collaborative, collective approach [web litteracy] of the web
community world wide
PRACTICE openess and transparency [Open Government]
FOSTER concrete and operational projects involving the VTCs
33. The VTCs Challenge
Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing
in Humanitarian Emergencies, by the UN and partner
Build a reputation for reliability, trust, professionalism
Lack of resources
The technical challenges of geolocation with partial
information and verifying accuracy of reports
Building local capacity to manage disaster and conflict
organizations
situations
Better sharing of experiences world wide [true Open &
Collaborative Approach] and overcome language barriers
Strengthen the collaboration with Institutional Bodies and
traditional volunteers organizations
34. A pilot project
http://valdicecina.salaoperativaprociv.org
Map of the Intermunicipality Civil Protectio Plan
Public and shared Geolocated data
Downloadable Map [pdf shared on Google Docs]
Meteo Alerts
Information, News, Feeds
Knowledge Sharing
Crowdsourcing Map to send and receive alerts and reports
iGoogle shared between 11 COC and Volunteers associations
geo tracking [google latitude]
google talk
google documents for collaboration