Riskr: A low-technological Web2.0 disaster service to monitor and share information

Proceedings of the 2012 15th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, NBIS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 311-318

  Farber, Jess ^a   Myers, Trina ^a   Trevathan, Jarrod ^b   Atkinson, Ian ^a   Andersen, Trevor ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

disaster management; social networks; Web2.1

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; DISASTER INFORMATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ERROR MARGINS; FACEBOOK; ON-LINE SERVICE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USABILITY STUDIES; USER COLLABORATIONS; WEB2.1;

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; MIDDLEWARE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870832166     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NBiS.2012.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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