Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone?
- Written by Billy Tusker Haworth, Lecturer in GIS and Disaster Management, University of Manchester
Social media helped some people cope with the Townsville floods earlier this year.AAP Image/Andrew Rankin
With natural hazard and climate-related disasters on the rise, online tools such as crowdsourced mapping and social media can help people understand and respond to a crisis. They enable people to share their location and contribute information.
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