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Podcast: EM Weekly Podcast
Episode: The Power of Crowdsourcing and Emergency Management
Description: Individual citizen involvement and ad hoc organization are increasingly being used in urban disaster prevention and management, taking advantage of new ubiquitous and collaborative technologies. Today there is a unique opportunity to leverage the work of crowds of volunteers. Are crowdsourcing approaches for disaster prevention and management something we ought to explore more?Emily Martuscello who has done extensive work on the power of crowdsourcing joins us at EM Weekly to take a deeper look at how emergency managers can use the crowd during disasters.Emily MartuscelloLinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-martuscello-63a27459/<...