H2020 COMRADES project introduction
0 likes89 views
The document discusses the COMRADES project, which aims to develop an intelligent platform to help communities reconnect, respond to, and recover from crisis situations using social media. The project is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 program and involves several European universities and organizations. It plans to extract requirements for resilience platforms, identify emergency events on social media, assess crisis information validity, and deploy the platform for communities during real disasters.
H2020 COMRADES project introduction
- 2. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Agenda 2
- 3. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Consortium Knowledge Media institute, The Open University, UK www.open.ac.uk iHub Ltd, Kenya www.ihub.co.ke Delft University of Technology https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ University of Sheffield, UK www.sheffield.ac.uk Government to You, Belgium www.gov2u.org Universitetet i Agder, Norway www.uia.no/en
- 4. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS) 4
- 7. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Social Media during disasters 7
- 8. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Uses of social media during disasters • Broadcasting info about the disaster • Requesting info from local people and eye witnesses • Requesting and offering help and support • Disaster mapping • Mobilising the crowd to support initiatives The clean-up in Clapham (Pic: Twitter via @Lawcol888) 8
- 10. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union • In the US, 1.1 million tweets were sent in the first day of Hurricane Sandy, and over 20 million in total • Over 800K photos with #Sandy hashtag on Instagram • 2.3M tweets were sent with the words “Haiti” or “Red Cross” in 2010 • More than 23 million tweets were posted about the haze in Singapore • In Nepal, more than half a million posts were shared about the devastating earthquake in 2015 Some (Big) Numbers 10
- 11. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union 11 Great efforts … inadequate tools
- 12. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union • So what are the challenges in using social media for disaster management? Volume Velocity Variety Veracity Value 12
- 13. www.comrades-project.euFunded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union Project Objectives COMRADES aims to empower communities with intelligent socio-technical solutions to help them reconnect, respond to, and recover from crisis situations. • Main objectives: O1: Extract the socio-technical requirements for collective resilience platforms O2: Automatically identify, process, assess, and monitor emergency events in distributed communities and social media sources O3: Measure the informativeness and validity of crisis information O4: Develop the intelligent COMRADES platform for community resilience O5: Deploy COMRADES to support real and distributed communities during live crises events 13