Abstract
Social media and crowdsourcing (SMCS) are increasingly proving useful for addressing the effects of natural and human-made hazards. SMCS allow different stakeholders to share crucial information during disaster management processes and to strengthen community resilience through engagement and collaboration. To harvest these opportunities there is a need for better knowledge on SMCS for diverse disaster scenarios. These challenges are being addressed within the LINKS Horizon 2020 project. The project aims at strengthening societal resilience by producing advanced learning on the use of SMCS in disasters. This is done through an in-depth study across three knowledge domains (disaster risk perception and vulnerability, disaster management processes, SMCS technologies), the establishment of an interactive framework, and an online platform in which a community of relevant stakeholders can learn and share knowledge and experiences. This paper provides an overview of the project objectives and approaches and a summary of the initial results.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Artikelnummer | 60 |
Tidsskrift | Open Research Europe |
Vol/bind | 1 |
Antal sider | 17 |
ISSN | 2732-5121 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2024 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:The LINKS project began in June 2020, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, and in particular under the call Security - Disaster Resilient Society: \u201CHuman factors, and social, societal, and organizational aspects for disaster-resilient societies\u201D. LINKS intends to strengthen societal resilience by contributing to a better understanding of the uses of SMCS in disasters. In LINKS, resilience is both a normative and positive quality of a system, institution or individual that increases the capacity to manage disaster risk. LINKS contributes to this process in the context of sustainable advanced learning, as learning is a fundamental aspect of the strengthening of resilience. LINKS defines sustainable advanced learning as a maintainable and evolving collection of knowledge and best practices produced for and by relevant stakeholders. Importantly, sustainable advanced learning entails a cognitive dimension (the capability to gain in-depth knowledge of crises and crisis management, for example), a social dimension (the collaborative efforts to implement that knowledge into new practices), and a transformative dimension whereby reflections are made on how knowledge was learned, what has changed in the process, and how and in what ways new knowledge might continue to evolve. This idea is embedded in the design of the research and outputs of the project.
Funding Information:
This project has received funding from the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No. 883490
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright: © 2024 Clark N et al.