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Understanding citizen participation in crisis and disasters: the point of view of governmental agencies

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Paloma Díaz,

Ignacio Aedo,

Sergio HerranzAuthors Info & Claims

AVI '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2598153.2602227

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Ubiquitous computing combined with web 2.0 technologies might contribute to develop a culture of participation in emergency management (EM) by aligning the efforts and capabilities of official agencies and citizens. For citizen participation to be possible organizations in charge of EM need to realize that involving citizens does not interfere with their protocols and citizens need to be empowered to move beyond the role of passive informants. In this paper we describe how organizations perceive this participation as a step further to understand how to reach a more participative model and the benefits that technology and sociotechnical systems might bring to such model.

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DOI:10.1145/2598153

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