How members of society interact during disasters has significantly changed because of
technological innovations and new media evolution. The modality changes in crisis …

Emergencies such as the 2013 Central European flood or the 2013 typhoon Haiyan in
Philippines have shown how citizens can organize themselves and coordinate private relief …

In the first hours of a disaster, up-to-date information about the area of interest is crucial for
effective disaster management. However, due to the delay induced by collecting and …

Ontology-driven systems with reasoning capabilities in the legal field are now better
understood. Legal concepts are not discrete, but make up a dynamic continuum between …

In recent times, emergencies such as the 2013 flood in mid Europe have clearly shown that
besides the professional emergency services and authorities, citizens get a more and more …

About the project LINKS “Strengthening links between technologies and society for
European disaster resilience” is a comprehensive study on disaster governance in Europe …

Crowdsourcing certain emergency information management (EIM) tasks to the general
public has been proven to be effective during emergencies. To accelerate the diffusion of …

Web 2.0 data deluge provoked by the development of collaborative tools has affected
numerous domains. In the context of the crowdsourcing of geographic information, the …

Over 2014, the Cornell University Legal Information Institute and the Australian National
University worked with users of the Cornell LII site in a citizen science project to collect over …

Multiple smartphone applications (apps) exist that can enhance the public's resilience to
disasters. Despite the capabilities of these apps, they can only be effective if users find them …