Can social media and crowdsourcing create more disaster resilient societies? The LINKS H2020 project has the answers
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May 31, 2020
PRESS RELEASE
June 2021 will mark the first year of work under LINKS, a project financed under the European Commission Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.
Social media platforms and crowdsourcing (SMCS) strategies are increasingly being integrate into crisis management for cooperation and collaboration across European communities in all phases of crises. The European funded LINKS project wants to know more about how these processes impact societal resilience. As the project coordinator, Nathan Clark from Vrije University in Amsterdam puts it - "Social media and crowdsourcing offer many opportunities for engaging with, and giving voices to, different stakeholders within a community which can support disaster risk management efforts and ultimately create more resilient societies. But at the same time there are still risks, challenges and unknowns associated with these technologies and processes which can just as easily compromise resilience.”