The document discusses using web 2.0 tools to improve collaboration and information sharing for disaster risk reduction and civil protection. It notes that citizens can act as sensors by sharing geolocated alerts and reports, which can help monitor situations. The proposed doctoral project aims to set up a web/mobile application called Geodata4all to create a shared map where different groups can collaborate by exchanging data, knowledge, and analysis in real time. This could include sending alerts and communications. The goal is to foster more resilient communities through open sharing of geoscience information.

1. The World occurs
because it is communicated
Umberto Galimberti
GEODATA ALL 4
Collaborative Management of Geological Data for risk prevention and civil protection
Doctoral Research Project - XXVII°
UNITO Dipartimento Scienze della Terra
Elena Rapisardi

2. About me
2005 -2009 : Civil Protection web projects 2009 : Volunteering during the Abruzzo
and communications Earthquake Emergency - tested web 2.0 tools
2009 : Presenting my thoughts and ideas 2011 : First Web 2.0 Civil Protection Project -
at Web 2.0 Expo in New York Centro Intercom. Val di Cecina (Pisa-Livorno)

3. How to cope with disasters?
Aulla, 28/10/2011 | photo elena rapisardi

4. Resilience

5. Preparedness

6. Collaboration

7. What is
changing?

8. Hyogo Framework for Action
Global Platform for Disaster
Reduction
Global Risk Forum, DAVOS
Citizens as Sensors
[Goodchild]
“Disaster Relief 2.0”, UN
Foundation, Vodaphone
Foundation, Harvard
Humanitarian Initiative,
OCHA
Onegeology
International Conference on
Early Warning
Natural hazards in the web age

9. The Web 2.0 World
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

10. Web 2.0 Key Words
#share
#collaborate
#communicate
#cooperate
#support
#include - e.g. #diversity

11. The Story Telling 10/25/2011 | citizen perspective
Tweet @ 15:00
Taken on @ 15:19

12. Sito Protezione Civile Regione Liguria

13. Twitter Stream 11/06/2011
Citizens

14. Crowdmaps 11/06/2011
Citizens

15. Actions | Crowdsourcing
Scientific Community | Media | Citizens

16. Actions | Crowdsourcing
Scientific Community | Relief Bodies
LAT & LONG
Automatically from
Mobile GPS Device
Shared Photo Map
Automatically from Mobile
GPS Device

17. Actions | Crisis mapping
Relief Bodies | COC Mulazzo
Manual Mapping [Maps set up by Antonio Campus COI Bassa Val di Cecina]

18. ?
Questions
Did the alert and warning systems worked well?
Was Local Civil Protection responsive?
Did the population cope with the event?
To what extent web 2.0 tools and approaches could
have been helpful to inform the population and to
increase situational awareness of the rescue teams?

19. 3D Visual representation of world earthquakes
Perspectives

20. SWOT: Web 2.0 and Risks
Strength Weakness
«Web Divide»
Local Social Ties
Opportunities
Common Approach
Global Social Networks
Risk Awareness Demand
Technology Innovation Low Scientific Litteracy
Volunteers Commitment
Low Budget
Web 2.0 Community
Free web 2.0 platforms
Institutionalized data model Low Web litteracy
Citizens driven data model Past Dependencies
Threads
Crowdsourcing Low Collaboration
Reliability & Validation Resistance to change
Scientific Knowledge Demand Low Budget
Scientific and Experts élites Lack of Continuance

21. The Challenge: Citizens as Sensors
PeopleUsersCitizensVolunteers.....
«emotional» participation proactive collaboration

22. The change is on going....
2011 Fukushima: twitter feed map

23. Geosphere and Social Fluxes
Institutions Volunteers
Media Citizens

24. The Doctoral Project
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25. Geosciences are the building blocks
1. to increase
environmental
knowledge
2. to foster sustainable
development
3. to build a more
resilient society
4. to reduce the impact
of natural disaster
5. to better manage
preparadness and
emergency

26. Geosciences Information Stream
scientific community
web 2.0 = enabler
continuum
experts
institutional bodies
media
plain language
citizens

27. Project Steps
Geo-Interface 1 acquire geosciences competences and skills
to better understand geosciences content;
1st year
review of similar project and solutions
2
Web litteracy share my knowledge and experience on web
2.0 with the university research group
3
2nd year
GeoMap set-up web/mobile applications to build a
geo-collaborative map (multi actors)
4
Practice testing to share, collaborate and
exchange information, knowledge, data
3rd year
5
Promoting promote to a wider audience (national and
International) the project and the approach

28. Geodata4all | the project goal
SHARED MAP & DATA IN
REAL TIME
SEND ALERTS AND
COMMUNICATIONS
CITIZENS AS SENSORS SHARED DEFINITIONS
geolocated alerts and reports from AND ANALYSIS
the population; citizens, public
SHARED GEO DATA SET
administrators, emergency managers
can better monitor and share
information on the overall situation

29. Inspirations
http://rainlog.org http://snowcore.uwaterloo.ca/
http://www.usgs.gov/socialmedia/ http://www.onegeology.org/

30. UNITO
Department of Earth Sciences
elena rapisardi e.rapisardi@gmail.com @erapisardi